tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454161596094447448.post5544821436187691588..comments2024-02-20T12:26:24.682-05:00Comments on language goes on holiday: Nothing to showDuncan Richterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15708344766825805406noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454161596094447448.post-10064134614364206062010-10-25T15:57:32.286-04:002010-10-25T15:57:32.286-04:00Maybe is right. There's a book called What Ph...Maybe is right. There's a book called <i>What Philosophers Know</i> that argues (as far as I know--I haven't read it yet) that analytic philosophy has established various truths in the not-too-distant past. If that's right, Hacker is wrong. And if Hacker is certainly right, then there <i>are</i> "well-established and unchallengeable philosophical truths." So he'd be wrong.<br /><br />I do think he's basically right, but he might exaggerate the distinction between concepts and facts, and I suspect we have a less systematic conceptual scheme than he might think we do.<br /><br />I'm not sure whether philosophers are conceptual engineers or conceptual tour guides. And tour guides who quite often get lost at that. Maybe I'm just a bad engineer.<br /><br />I was disappointed that Blackburn didn't follow up Think with a book on ethics called Behave.Duncan Richterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15708344766825805406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6454161596094447448.post-2239567286900236352010-10-25T13:21:51.639-04:002010-10-25T13:21:51.639-04:00Maybe. (I'll have to think about the point abo...Maybe. (I'll have to think about the point about reality.)<br /><br />I told my wife to start telling people I'm a conceptual engineer (rather than philosopher). (I stole that from Blackburn's little book Think.)Matthew Pianaltohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16380038537888895216noreply@blogger.com