I will read more into this strange rationalist blog, but so far the blog does seem rather arrogant to me. Every other post claims to “solve” a traditional philosophical problem “easily”. This post doesn’t even bother to do that; it just states the problems have been easily solved. What have I seen so far: the problem of induction, the problem of free will, what the correct meta ethics is, an exact analysis of belief, a proof of metaphysical realism. I hope the writers in this blog are aware that countless people throughout history, with a wide variety of viewpoints, have presented supposedly “easy” solutions to these diverse problems. We tend to view the ones further back in history as philosophers, and the ones closer (from the 20th century onwards) as bad philosophers. Not always. There have been some serious modern attempts to easily solve philosophical problems. Nevertheless, this blog does come off as arrogant. For an outsider like myself, I could give a lot more of my confidence to this blog if any of it had been published in an academic journal. I don’t know if any has; please direct me if it has.
I will read more into this strange rationalist blog, but so far the blog does seem rather arrogant to me. Every other post claims to “solve” a traditional philosophical problem “easily”. This post doesn’t even bother to do that; it just states the problems have been easily solved. What have I seen so far: the problem of induction, the problem of free will, what the correct meta ethics is, an exact analysis of belief, a proof of metaphysical realism. I hope the writers in this blog are aware that countless people throughout history, with a wide variety of viewpoints, have presented supposedly “easy” solutions to these diverse problems. We tend to view the ones further back in history as philosophers, and the ones closer (from the 20th century onwards) as bad philosophers. Not always. There have been some serious modern attempts to easily solve philosophical problems. Nevertheless, this blog does come off as arrogant. For an outsider like myself, I could give a lot more of my confidence to this blog if any of it had been published in an academic journal. I don’t know if any has; please direct me if it has.