{"id":8943,"date":"2013-03-03T15:51:01","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T15:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/03\/which-is-the-hardest-of-the-philosophical-subdisciplines\/"},"modified":"2013-03-03T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T15:51:01","slug":"which-is-the-hardest-of-the-philosophical-subdisciplines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/03\/which-is-the-hardest-of-the-philosophical-subdisciplines\/","title":{"rendered":"Which is the Hardest of the Philosophical Subdisciplines?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Without a doubt, the philosophy of time.&#0160; The philosophy of mind is a&#0160;piece of cake by comparison.&#0160; According to a story, possibly apocryphal, Peter van Inwagen was once asked why he didn&#39;t publish on time.&#0160; &quot;Too hard,&quot; was his reply. If it is too hard for van Inwagen, it is <em>hard<\/em>.&#0160; According to Hugh McCann, &quot;Few subjects in philosophy are as difficult, as exasperating even, as the subject of time, for few elements in our experience are so inherently enigmatic.&quot;&#0160; (<em>Creation and the Sovereignty of God<\/em>, p. 68)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">This puts me in mind of perhaps the stupidest commercial of the &#39;80s: &quot;Man invented time. Seiko perfected it.&quot;&#0160; Stupid but stimulating: how many fallacies can you spot?<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Without a doubt, the philosophy of time.&#0160; The philosophy of mind is a&#0160;piece of cake by comparison.&#0160; According to a story, possibly apocryphal, Peter van Inwagen was once asked why he didn&#39;t publish on time.&#0160; &quot;Too hard,&quot; was his reply. If it is too hard for van Inwagen, it is hard.&#0160; According to Hugh McCann, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/03\/03\/which-is-the-hardest-of-the-philosophical-subdisciplines\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Which is the Hardest of the Philosophical Subdisciplines?&#8221;<\/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":[20,204],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-metaphilosophy","category-time-and-change"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943","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=8943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}