Wednesday, July 2, 2008

Review - The Philosophy of Philosophy by Timothy Williamson

Review - The Philosophy of Philosophy
by Timothy Williamson
Blackwell, 2008
Review by Manuel Bremer, Ph.D.
http://metapsychology.mentalhelp.net/poc/view_doc.php?type=book&id=4285

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Anonymous said...

A good review of the shocking disparities between "professionalized" philosophy within the narrowly defined sub-sections of the analytic tradition and philosophy as such. The prejudices of a small band of "professionalized" philosophers in this sub-section, in its oddly navel-gazing mode is very sad to see in Oxford. The over-indulgence in technical verbosity at the expense of clarity and genuine demystification makes the so-called analytical philosopher relevant only to creatures of like-minded prolixity. Peter Hacker's succinct review of Williamson's book in the Philosophical Quarterly sums up what has gone terribly wrong with this increasingly mystifying sub-branch of the Oxford analytical tradition.

June 3, 2010 at 9:21 AM

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