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D.Ottlinger seems happily oblivious to the global irrelevance of American philosophy. While analytic philosophers were debating the "deep" questions, like "what makes white white and a pile a pile," deconstruction was redefining the fields of lit crit, anthropology, architecture, sociology, etc. God knows how much BS was churned out by the PoMo-ists, but the problem with English-speaking philosophy is that it obsessed (and still does) over problems no one has cared about since Aquinas. So throughout Europe, bookstores will have entire shelves stacked with post-modern philosophy, while good luck finding Nagel or Searle anywhere in a noncampus bookstore. American philosophy is globally irrelevant.
What I find baffling is analytic philosophers' disdain of history in general and philosophical history in particular. My philosophical colleagues are crassly, and apparently proudly, ignorant of 19th c German philosophy. Is there any other field of scholarship that disdains history so much?
Dennett has admitted that he knows nothing about phenomenology; and yet he writes a whole book on consciousness. That's professional malpractice.
And I'd like to hear the argument why philosophy is better off ignoring all that happened before the Vienna Circle. |