{"id":7864,"date":"2014-07-01T11:16:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/01\/peter-unger-introduces-a-central-thesis-of-his-new-book-empty-ideas-a-critique-of-analytric-philosop\/"},"modified":"2014-07-01T11:16:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T11:16:25","slug":"peter-unger-introduces-a-central-thesis-of-his-new-book-empty-ideas-a-critique-of-analytric-philosop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2014\/07\/01\/peter-unger-introduces-a-central-thesis-of-his-new-book-empty-ideas-a-critique-of-analytric-philosop\/","title":{"rendered":"Peter Unger Introduces a Central Thesis of his New Book, Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here<\/a>, via Dave Lull.  The comments, as one ought to expect, are not very good.  Here as elsewhere, and to exaggerate a bit, the best arguments against an open combox are the contents of one.<\/span><\/p>\n

I have read large chunks of Unger's new book and I hope to provide a critical response to some of it before too long.  For now I refer the interested reader to a couple of recent Unger-related entries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Peter Unger on Betrand Russell on the Value of Philosophy<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Can one Copulate one's Way to Chastity?  Notes on Wittgenstein and Unger<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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\"\"<\/a>What is Left for Philosophy to Do?<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>"By definition, philosophy is for white men"<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Analytic Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, and Natural Philosophy<\/a><\/div>\n
\"\"<\/a>Unger on "Empty Ideas"…and M.B. Willard's awesomeness<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/fieldset>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here, via Dave Lull.  The comments, as one ought to expect, are not very good.  Here as elsewhere, and to exaggerate a bit, the best arguments against an open combox are the contents of one. I have read large chunks of Unger's new book and I hope to provide a critical response to some of … Continue reading “Peter Unger Introduces a Central Thesis of his New Book, Empty Ideas: A Critique of Analytic Philosophy<\/i>“<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[573],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-analytic-philosophy-criticized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7864\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}