Who is the worst philosopher ever?

[Establishment]

And why is it Hume?

[dgswaim]

Me, probably.

[TheVineyard]

Heidegger

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[objectivityofcontradiction]

Santayana

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[Cottagecheeseman]

Hegel

[Edit_Undo]

Hegel

I assumed you would say Zizek for some reason.

[bar_scene_gambler]

Heidegger

Booooooo!!!

Oh, and my vote is for pretty much any analytic philosopher. I can do that right?

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[xypathos]

Spinoza, for now.

[TheVineyard]

Booooooo!!!

Oh, and my vote is for pretty much any analytic philosopher. I can do that right?

 

Don't be analytical about it. Just mumble some nonsense that sounds cool and then conclude.

[maxhgns]

Colin McGinn.

[DHumeDominates]

And why is it Hume?

 

I hope you're joking.

[PhiPhiPhi]

Colin McGinn.

McGinn was a surprisingly relevant and good philosopher in the 80s.

 

As for my vote: Worst philosopher ever? No idea. Most overrated ever: definitely Quine.

[Wait For It...]

Philosopher with the worst name: PMS Hacker (Peter Michael Stephan Hacker). He's a Wittgenstein scholar at Oxford.  

[Establishment]

I hope you're joking.

 

Do you hear anyone laughing?

[PhiPhiPhi]

Do you hear anyone laughing?

Are you Edward Feser?

[MattDest]

Plato. I mean, c'mon bro - do you even science?

[humean_skeptic]

Any philosopher who refutes one or more of my positions.

[greencoloredpencil]

Berkeley....the idealism...

[TheVineyard]

McGinn was a surprisingly relevant and good philosopher in the 80s.

 

As for my vote: Worst philosopher ever? No idea. Most overrated ever: definitely Quine.

 

Why "surprisingly" relevant?

 

Does being accused of sexual harassment mean that nothing you ever did in your whole life was ever good?

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[Monadology]

Why "surprisingly" relevant?

 

Does being accused of sexual harassment mean that nothing you ever did in your whole life was ever good?

 

No, but it might be surprising to someone who read had only read his recent work much of which was less than stellar. 

[Neither Here Nor There]

Hegel and Heidegger?  No way. They are the best philosophers.

 

As far as worsts, I might pick Descartes. "Worst" is not a good word, though. I just disagree with him.

[PhiPhiPhi]

Why "surprisingly" relevant?

 

Does being accused of sexual harassment mean that nothing you ever did in your whole life was ever good?

As Monadology pointed out - McGinn has produced shit for the past decade, at least. It's similar to the case of Nagel - if I were to tell someone who has only read Mind and Cosmos that Nagel was one of the best philosophers of the 20th century, they'd probably look at me as if I were crazy.

[marsmat]

http://www.critical-theory.com/march-madness-the-overrated-philosophers-bracket/

 

Seen this?

[TheVineyard]

http://www.critical-theory.com/march-madness-the-overrated-philosophers-bracket/

 

Seen this?

 

There are a shitload of people I don't know in every bracket except "old dead people"

[DHumeDominates]

Do you hear anyone laughing?

 

The editors of Hume Studies, perhaps?