{"id":8979,"date":"2013-02-17T15:52:21","date_gmt":"2013-02-17T15:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/17\/nagel-again\/"},"modified":"2013-02-17T15:52:21","modified_gmt":"2013-02-17T15:52:21","slug":"nagel-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/17\/nagel-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Nagel Again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I chose not to waste any words on the Leiter-Weisberg review of Thomas Nagel&#39;s 2012 <em>Mind and Cosmos<\/em>.&#0160; Keith Burgess-Jackson discusses it <a href=\"http:\/\/keithburgess-jackson.typepad.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/the-rejection-of-naturalism.html\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>, and links to Ed Feser&#39;s&#0160; critique:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Ed Feser <a href=\"http:\/\/edwardfeser.blogspot.com\/2012\/10\/nagel-and-his-critics-part-ii.html\" target=\"_self\">criticizes<\/a> the Leiter-Weisberg review. In reading Feser&#39;s critique, one grasps the utter shallowness of Leiter and Weisberg. They know just enough philosophy to be dangerous. They&#39;re drive-by philosophers!&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">Nagel is the real thing.&#0160; Brian Leiter is a status-obsessed careerist and leftist ideologue.&#0160;&#0160;Leiter should show more respect for his elders and betters.&#0160; I do admit, however, that&#0160;Leiter&#39;s is the premier academic gossip site in the whole of the philososphere.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">My series of posts on Nagel&#39;s <em>Mind and Cosmos<\/em> is <a href=\"http:\/\/maverickphilosopher.typepad.com\/maverick_philosopher\/nagel-thomas\/\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>.&#0160;<\/span> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I chose not to waste any words on the Leiter-Weisberg review of Thomas Nagel&#39;s 2012 Mind and Cosmos.&#0160; Keith Burgess-Jackson discusses it here, and links to Ed Feser&#39;s&#0160; critique: Ed Feser criticizes the Leiter-Weisberg review. In reading Feser&#39;s critique, one grasps the utter shallowness of Leiter and Weisberg. They know just enough philosophy to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/02\/17\/nagel-again\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Nagel Again&#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":[225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nagel-thomas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979","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=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}