tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post3321766723599832824..comments2024-01-05T01:21:21.702-08:00Comments on <center>SPECULUM CRITICUM TRADITIONIS</center>: They cough in inkskholiasthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05410057905377189336noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-1144325964203269762011-06-11T00:37:50.930-07:002011-06-11T00:37:50.930-07:00I really like this and other recent posts.I really like this and other recent posts.Timothy Mortonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05067377804366363020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1651908162607091292.post-38236381343771854702011-05-28T17:07:02.174-07:002011-05-28T17:07:02.174-07:00The sort of 'impact' that Ladyman would ma...The sort of 'impact' that Ladyman would make would be that of being repeatedly struck by a large down bolster. Why should the level of detail that he as a philosopher of science engages in be more accessible to a physics prof. than any other intelligent reader or interlocutor with some philosophical wit. It's the old false idea that you can't know anything until you know everything and as the volume of that everything becomes greater each year the pansophist manque is driven back into the redoubt of extreme specialism.<br /> <br />Take Wittgenstein for example who wasn't even that well up on the history of philosophy. He turned that ignorance into a fresh approach which the well trained, being so schooled, would be unable to manage. Of course it helps being a genius too. He said one thing in his TPM essay which seems quite wrong. "Most professional philosophers study tiny issues because it is only through the details that the bigger picture is revealed." Who are the generalists that put us in the picture?<br /> <br />--ombhurbhuvahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07789523088428270027noreply@blogger.com