This is another reason why I really truly love the New York Times. Although their exceptionalism is sad per se and we could all use more publications that are as accessible and savvy, I do love the fact that, like none other, the Times is able to take the time and invest the resources to inspect a dusty corner of academia like philosophy and offer a platform for debate for some of the top-line thinkers who inhabit that narrow space.
I call it a "dusty corner" not as an insult, but as an observation of the fact that in the Western world, and in the US more than anywhere else, reflection and scolasticism for the sake of theoretical knowledge itself are shunned in favor of practicality and a hands-on problem-solving approach, which, while extremely productive, creates generations of people who are unable and unwilling to "sit and think."
Looks like traditional approaches to the discipline of philosophy (purely theoretical) will soon be entirely discarded in favor of a more pragmatic approach. In the end the empirical will prevail. Which, I guess, is better than discarding the whole discipline altogether.
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