Philosophy's Inertia
THE SOURCE: "There Is No Progress in Philosophy" by Eric Dietrich, in Essays in Philosophy, July 2011.
WESTERN PHILOSOPHY SEEMS to have had a pretty clear evolution: from Plato to Descartes to Kant to Wittgenstein. Eric Dietrich, a philosophy professor at the State University of New York, Binghamton, begs to differ. "Philosophy is, except for some modernizing, exactly the same now as it has ever been. It has not progressed one iota," he argues. And he's no renegade--a number of his peers agree.
Compare the trajectory of philosophy with that of the hard sciences. If Aristotle were to sit in on an elementary college physics class, he would be mystified by some of the …
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Publication information:
Article title: Philosophy's Inertia.
Contributors: Not available.
Magazine title: The Wilson Quarterly.
Volume: 35.
Issue: 4
Publication date: Autumn 2011.
Page number: 70.
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