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This whole project is exhausting. B&H feel pedantic, but that's a part of the nature of the natural language program. "To say 'x does y.' is nonsense because x is not the sort of thing that does y." Hacker (at least) is well aware that this is not interesting to most American philosophers, and that there are acceptable alternative usages of terms, but he insists on using a lot of force in this project.
— Dec 17, 2013 05:14PM
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Joshua Stein
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Hacker assumes that he and his various interlocutors are using using some under qualified philosophical terminology in the same ways. They're obviously not. Different sub domains and traditions have different conventions for certain terms, and Hacker doesn't seen familiar with some idiosyncratic features for Churchland and other reductions coming from philosophy of science.
— Apr 21, 2014 01:13PM
Joshua Stein
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The criticisms made are so redundant and the mode of analysis gets stale quickly... I need a break from B&H for a while. A few weeks at least.
— Dec 17, 2013 08:35PM
Joshua Stein
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B&H make this a difficult read. It's hard to say, at any given moment, whether they are stating an uncontroversial truism, making a thoughtful criticism of an odd conceptual error, or grossly mischaracterizing an interlocutor. They do all three in each section.
— Nov 24, 2013 09:08AM
Joshua Stein
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This is definitely going to turn out to be an exhausting read. Large portions seen redundant.
— Nov 23, 2013 01:23PM
