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A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class

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Re: A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class

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Post by lapcat »

defrost wrote: post #8

Archived: https://archive.md/0Ngar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Bernstein > (May 14, 1932 – July 4, 2022) was an American philosopher who taught for many years at Haverford College and then at The New School for Social Research, where he was Vera List Professor of Philosophy. Bernstein wrote extensively about a broad array of issues and philosophical traditions including American pragmatism, neopragmatism…

> 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers (August 12, 2022)

Bit of a strange list. Chomsky is an influential linguist and political activist, but he's not an influential philosopher.

Edmund Gettier is not living, having died in 2021. Questionable to call him influential in any case. He had one very short influential paper, that's it.

Re: A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class

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Post by wahnfrieden »

lapcat wrote: post #11
defrost wrote: post #8

Archived: https://archive.md/0Ngar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Bernstein > (May 14, 1932 – July 4, 2022) was an American philosopher who taught for many years at Haverford College and then at The New School for Social Research, where he was Vera List Professor of Philosophy. Bernstein wrote extensively about a broad array of issues and philosophical traditions including American pragmatism, neopragmatism…

> 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers (August 12, 2022) Bit of a strange list. Chomsky is an influential linguist and political activist, but he's not an influential philosopher. Edmund Gettier is not living, having died in 2021. Questionable to call him influential in any case. He had one very short influential paper, that's it.

chomsky does analytic philosophy

Re: A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class

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Post by garbagetime »

lapcat wrote: post #11
defrost wrote: post #8

Archived: https://archive.md/0Ngar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_J._Bernstein > (May 14, 1932 – July 4, 2022) was an American philosopher who taught for many years at Haverford College and then at The New School for Social Research, where he was Vera List Professor of Philosophy. Bernstein wrote extensively about a broad array of issues and philosophical traditions including American pragmatism, neopragmatism…

> 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers (August 12, 2022) Bit of a strange list. Chomsky is an influential linguist and political activist, but he's not an influential philosopher. Edmund Gettier is not living, having died in 2021. Questionable to call him influential in any case. He had one very short influential paper, that's it.

I would say his work in linguistics is philosophy.

Re: A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class

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Post by w10-1 »

The bulk of Bernstein's productive time was at Haverford, where almost half the graduating class were philosophy majors. He was well-matched by Ashok Gangadean, Aryeh Kosman, Paul Desjardin, Kathleen Wright, et al; the department flourished for decades with funding from Gest secured in the 1960's by Desjardins. The whole department was a national treasure, the best philosophers in the country teaching undergraduates. They each had their way of taking the BS out of philosophy; Bernstein's was to root it in ordinary social thinking.

Re: A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class

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Post by lapcat »

garbagetime wrote: post #13
lapcat wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers (August 12, 2022) Bit of a strange list. Chomsky is an influential linguist and political activist, but he's not an influential philosopher. Edmund Gettier is not living, having died in 2021. Questionable to call him influential in any case. He had one very short influential paper, that's it.

I would say his work in linguistics is philosophy.

You mean non-empirical? ;-)

Re: A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class

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Post by lapcat »

wahnfrieden wrote: post #12
lapcat wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> 50 Most Influential Living Philosophers (August 12, 2022) Bit of a strange list. Chomsky is an influential linguist and political activist, but he's not an influential philosopher. Edmund Gettier is not living, having died in 2021. Questionable to call him influential in any case. He had one very short influential paper, that's it.

chomsky does analytic philosophy

I said he wasn't an influential philosopher.

Re: A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class

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Post by tannisphere4 »

altdataseller wrote: post #9

I thought this was going to be about “The Last Lecture” which is about a professor’s last class before dying of cancer

Same. No doubt, Berstein's work has broad and lasting implications for technology and hacker culture, for someone to post it. Can anyone enlighten me?

Re: A Philosophy Professor’s Final Class

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Post by garbagetime »

lapcat wrote: post #15
garbagetime wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would say his work in linguistics is philosophy.

You mean non-empirical? ;-)

Nope. His work on the questions of the nature of thought, language, and mind is both extremely influential & deeply philosophical.

Some of his work on linguistics you can argue is not philosophy. Some I think clearly is.

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