We dig into the biggest rivalry in Tamler’s profession, analytic vs. continental philosophy. Are analytic philosophers truly the rigorous, precise, clear thinkers they take themselves to be? And is continental philosophy really just a bunch pretentious charlatans spouting French and German gibberish and writing obscure prose to mask the incoherence of their ideas? We look at a nice paper by Neil Levy that goes beyond the stereotypes and tries to describe and explain the differences between the two schools.
Plus, The University of Austin (sic) is back in the news and we have a report from someone who attended one of their Forbidden Courses. This should be so easy but the article has us deeply conflicted about what to make fun of.
[Important update: Trixie is on a 5 day streak of no accidents and is a perfect little sweet girl.]
Links:
An American Education: Notes from UATX by Noah Rawlings
Levy, N. (2003). Analytic and continental philosophy: Explaining the differences. Metaphilosophy, 34(3), 284-304.
[BONUS] Overton Windows Episode 1: Israel and Palestine
Episode 264: The Rule You Follow (The Coen Brothers' "No Country for Old Men")
Episode 263: Free Yoel
Episode 262: Supposing Truth is a Woman (Nietzsche's "Beyond Good and Evil")
Episode 261: Death of the Author
Episode 260: The Scream That Never Found a Voice (Murakami's "Sleep")
Episode 259: Losing Time ("Tár" with Paul Bloom)
Episode 258: Mystic Peeza
Episode 257: Aural Fixation
Episode 256: The Right to Punish?
Episode 255: Beloved Child of the House (Susanna Clarke's "Piranesi")
Episode 254: Nobody's Parfit
Episode 253: Tarkovsky's Starchild
Episode 252: Yes We Sene-can
Episode 251: First Order, Then Chaos
Episode 250: Metaphors All the Way Down
Episode 249: Phlegm and Carelessness (Hume's "The Sceptic")
Episode 248: Checkmate, Grasshopper
Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
Episode 246: Existential Poker-Face (David Foster Wallace's "E Unibus Pluram")
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