As I said, I can only comment on my general impression of the field. I’m not an expert—in anything—and I don’t move in philosophy circles.
Worse still, because of my experiences with e.g. theology, I may be unusually biased towards criticising philosophers without properly engaging with them. “My experience of philosophy” is more valuable than a high-schooler’s, but it’s probably nothing special as experience-of-philosophy goes.
Nevertheless, as I said, in my experience of philosophy there are few philosophers at EY’s level.
I think that’s relevant, and hey, if someone with better evidence disagrees then all the more data for me. But the grandparent didn’t provide evidence; it used underhanded tactics to deflect away from it instead.
John Conway … is awesome and much higher-level than me, but I’m not sure how that relates to the above discussion. As you say, he’s a mathematician; I’m not sure who Philosopher!John Conway would be, even if I had met them. Which I haven’t.
It takes some engagement with philosophy to know how to rate a philosopher. OTOH, someone can always gain popularity by telling people what they want to hear. Someone once told me that the Best Philosopher was Timothy Leary.
John Conway is principally a mathematician.
Aren’t you still in high school?
As I said, I can only comment on my general impression of the field. I’m not an expert—in anything—and I don’t move in philosophy circles.
Worse still, because of my experiences with e.g. theology, I may be unusually biased towards criticising philosophers without properly engaging with them. “My experience of philosophy” is more valuable than a high-schooler’s, but it’s probably nothing special as experience-of-philosophy goes.
Nevertheless, as I said, in my experience of philosophy there are few philosophers at EY’s level.
I think that’s relevant, and hey, if someone with better evidence disagrees then all the more data for me. But the grandparent didn’t provide evidence; it used underhanded tactics to deflect away from it instead.
John Conway … is awesome and much higher-level than me, but I’m not sure how that relates to the above discussion. As you say, he’s a mathematician; I’m not sure who Philosopher!John Conway would be, even if I had met them. Which I haven’t.
It takes some engagement with philosophy to know how to rate a philosopher. OTOH, someone can always gain popularity by telling people what they want to hear. Someone once told me that the Best Philosopher was Timothy Leary.