The solution is to overcome your prejudices — jamalrob
yet am profoundly annoyed when others dismiss Sam Harris without actually reading his work. — invizzy
Well, you obviously can't be too offended by rubbish if you're reading Sam Harris. ;)I'm not sure I know of a solution, or one that doesn't result in me reading a bunch of rubbish. — invizzy
Sure, but we don't need to adopt any sort of radical doxastic voluntarism in order to think that our prejudices can be overcome (or at least mitigated). Slow habituation can do the job, even if we are dragged kicking and screaming all the way. And of course, a good teacher can be rather helpful.I more or less agree with this but I wonder how much freedom we actually have on this point. Can we really know what judgments of ours are a result of prejudices? And aren't all our judgments prejudiced to some degree just by virtue of who we are? — Baden
I realize that you were responding to @The Great Whatever, but for my own part, there's a reason I specified the analytic tradition. Thanks to how ill-defined the term is, we get to include the likes of Plato and Descartes.It certainly may be I'm simply unaware of those analytic philosophers who claim to have ascertained our fundamental nature, or that of the universe. — Ciceronianus the White
Alfred North Whitehead comes to mind as well.Which one didn't? Carnap is the analytic philosopher par excellence, and his magnum opus was The Logical Structure of the World... — The Great Whatever
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