Cottagecheeseman Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 The editors of Hume Studies, perhaps? Pretty much any empirically minded philosopher since Hume as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bar_scene_gambler Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 (edited) http://www.critical-theory.com/march-madness-the-overrated-philosophers-bracket/ Seen this? Interestingly this list contains pretty much everyone who has been worth reading in the last 200ish years EDIT: Scratch that, this list has pretty much every important philosopher on it. Except for bell hooks. Who the hell is that? Edited March 26, 2014 by bar_scene_gambler Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
perpetuavix Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Interestingly this list contains pretty much everyone who has been worth reading in the last 200ish years EDIT: Scratch that, this list has pretty much every important philosopher on it. Except for bell hooks. Who the hell is that? You don't know bell hooks? Most of her writing is about race and gender. Her work on education is amazing; I read Teaching To Transgress before I started teaching and I was a million times better for it. She's more well known as a critical theorist, I guess. AnxiousAndy, nietzschemarket and tpop 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgswaim Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I'm going to have to say Judith Butler. Reminds me of reading Zizek, except it's less coherent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weltgeist Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 yeah Hume. It's like hello, 1781 called, synthetic a priori judgments are possible via their transcendental basis in the synthetic unity of apperception, idiot. MongooseMayhem, Establishment and ZiggyPhil 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bar_scene_gambler Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 You don't know bell hooks? Most of her writing is about race and gender. Her work on education is amazing; I read Teaching To Transgress before I started teaching and I was a million times better for it. She's more well known as a critical theorist, I guess. No, I've never really had any interest in race and gender theory. Not that it isn't valuable, it's just that I have never wanted to read anything that deals with race or gender. It's just not my thing. The only race/gender theorist I have ever had an interest in is Angela Davis, and that's mainly because of her stuff on the prison system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stressedout Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Depending on how you judge "worst" will depend on my answer. If you judge it by the amount of false beliefs a philosopher held, then I say Hume wins hands down. At least in Modernity. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Establishment Posted March 26, 2014 Author Share Posted March 26, 2014 Depending on how you judge "worst" will depend on my answer. If you judge it by the amount of false beliefs a philosopher held, then I say Hume wins hands down. At least in Modernity. Why do you hate America so much? stressedout 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stressedout Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Why do you hate America so much? I threw an upvote your way for that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cottagecheeseman Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Interestingly this list contains pretty much everyone who has been worth reading in the last 200ish years EDIT: Scratch that, this list has pretty much every important philosopher on it. Except for bell hooks. Who the hell is that? I don't see anyone on that list outside of the old-dead people who I have read or see as major figures in philosophy. Which is good. We make fun of continentalists in America. Don't you know that by now? (I should note that this is in jest, and mostly a reference to Bar "dirty continentalist" Gambler's other posts elsewhere) stressedout and Monadology 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bar_scene_gambler Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I don't see anyone on that list outside of the old-dead people who I have read or see as major figures in philosophy. Which is good. We make fun of continentalists in America. Don't you know that by now? (I should note that this is in jest, and mostly a reference to Bar "dirty continentalist" Gambler's other posts elsewhere) Ah. So I've been discovered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cottagecheeseman Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 Ah. So I've been discovered. It wasn't very hard. Same with your name. Or what college you went too. Or your social security number. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bar_scene_gambler Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 It wasn't very hard. Same with your name. Or what college you went too. Or your social security number. I'm not sure if you're joking considering that there is apparently someone here who knows my first name because she recognized my writing style. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cottagecheeseman Posted March 26, 2014 Share Posted March 26, 2014 I'm not sure if you're joking considering that there is apparently someone here who knows my first name because she recognized my writing style. Honestly, I just know your Reddit username and name of the college you attend. Add me on facebook and I'll know your name Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kierkegaardashian Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Any of the logical positivists. tpop and stressedout 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Establishment Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 Any of the logical positivists. If I could go back to any decade, it'd be back to when positivism was a viable philosophy. What a grand time that was. brettmullga and Cottagecheeseman 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgswaim Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Any of the logical positivists. I'm sympathetic to this... although I do like some of Hempel's work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stressedout Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 If I could go back to any decade, it'd be back to when positivism was a viable philosophy. What a grand time that was. Positivism was never a viable philosophy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheVineyard Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 If I could go back to any decade, it'd be back to when positivism was a viable philosophy. What a grand time that was. Positivism was never a viable philosophy. What do you mean "was?" It still is viable! Establishment 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Establishment Posted April 2, 2014 Author Share Posted April 2, 2014 Positivism was never a viable philosophy. Psst, your bias is showing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stressedout Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 Psst, your bias is showing. People have biases, or opinions, or make strong judgments concerning certain propositions. No way! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brettmullga Posted April 2, 2014 Share Posted April 2, 2014 If I could go back to any decade, it'd be back to when positivism was a viable philosophy. What a grand time that was. Agreed! When reading Ayer's Language, Truth and Logic one can't help but feel the excitement. It was as if they solved everything at once. Establishment 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PedagogodeLiberacion Posted May 27, 2014 Share Posted May 27, 2014 Hegel (for European Philosophy) and Plantinga (for Analytic Philosophy) brettmullga 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhilApplicant Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 I don't know, but I'm sure that there's a fact of the matter to this question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dgswaim Posted May 29, 2014 Share Posted May 29, 2014 I don't know, but I'm sure that there's a fact of the matter to this question. I was thinking the opposite. Shit philosophy is so very often in the eye of the beholder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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