Re: analytical philosophy

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Justin:

>>>JKS: philosophers cannot tell scientistr What Is Good Method.
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>>JD They can tell them, but only a small number will listen.
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>I was unclear. I meant: We _should_ not tell them. We have no 
>special knowledge. No one appointed us the method police.

I think you're right, but philosophers used to think that they had 
special insight into the nature of knowledge production.  When do you 
think that philosophers decided that they really didn't?  Moreover, 
if philosophy is not the master of all disciplines, telling us the 
truth of truths as it were, what is philosophy & what is the job of 
the philosopher?  All is rhetoric, as Rorty says?  Should Philosophy 
be subsumed under English & Comparative Literature, which in turn 
should be subsumed under History?

Yoshie