Philosophers by Quadra

[Kim]

Or maybe they're read b/c their work just happens to be better and/or more inclusive.

And that is highly subjective, no?

[ashlesha]

maybe bruno mars is popular cuz his music is tha best





maybe

[OldPathWhiteClouds]

Post modernism is basically a scam.

What do you call "post-modernism"? There are lots of different concepts of post-modernism and most of them aren't congruent.

[xerx]

What do you call "post-modernism"? There are lots of different concepts of post-modernism and most of them aren't congruent.

Hard relativism

[Kim]

Not necessarily. It's more that people who've happened to produce incisive work on topically core areas of philosophy like ontology, epistemology, rationality, phenomenology, etc. will generally be more widely read and thus more well-known. Whereas it's more difficult to gain the same degree of intellectual traction from niche topics like women's issues or 'post-colonial marxism' and such.

Philosophy's main purpose is not to provide material for abstract intellectual masturbation. Activist philosophy can provide plenty of intellectual traction even if it doesn't seem to apply to you directly.

As a sidenote, "intellectual traction" is hardly universal. It conjures up the white privilege ivory tower intellectualism I thought you detest so much. Read up about subalterity and academic intellectualism (I recommend Spivak). It might interest you if you are open to Ne-ing your take on "intellectual traction" and "better and inclusive work." You might be surprised.

[Scapegrace]

Philosophy is like art. You can't objectively define where it starts and where it ends, so you have to accept everything as "philosphy". Just think how the most simple thoughts can be the essence of a whole school of thought.

Wrong.

[Absurd]

Philosophy is going to start next time I show up on here - stay tuned.

[Pa3s]

Wrong.

no u r

[InvisibleJim]

This thread is awful.

[Absurd]

Hmm. Focus drugs kicked in.

[OldPathWhiteClouds]

Hard relativism

Gotcha. I don't know how many hard-relativists there are that are big names in philosophy.. maybe Feyerabend qualifies.

[Galen]

Michael Sandel | δ-rational of some sort?

Miscellaneous δ-look of skeptical consternation:

I could buy some sort of IJ

[ashlesha]

@leckysupport @labcoat

[krieger]

is there a cure?

[ashlesha]

i just thought of you guys when i saw the name taleb.

[krieger]

i might think from reading his writing that he has ego Se, but seeing him in person i'm not sure i buy it. he looks like a person way more comfortable living in his head than engaging in any sort of here and now interfacing with his environment. in as far as there is much of perceptible "Se" it looks artificial and poorly modulated. stuttering, awkward poses, taking time to collect his thoughts; a closet intellectual more so than a man "of the real world". nothing like a Jim Cramer, for example.

those are of course things of limited merit in identifying or excluding ESTp as a typing but i've got to go by something, and those are my immediate thoughts. with ENTp and ENTj there would be other issues, but having mentioned those three types i do think the most realistic possibilities are covered.

[OldPathWhiteClouds]

Nassim Taleb

he also believes that universities are better at public relations and claiming credit than generating knowledge.

and

He calls for cancellation of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economics, saying that the damage from economic theories can be devastating.^[56][57] He opposes top-down knowledge as an academic illusion and believes that price formation obeys anorganic process.

Never heard of him before but I like this guy's thinking..