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Letters
Letters
Peeling Off The Labels • Barking Up The Wrong Dogma • Derrida Sometimes Makes Sense • Fifty Shades of Truth • Reviewer Brought to Book • The Good Friends of Bad Company • Not Believing or Believing Not • Further Physicalist Philosophy Fights
Peeling Off The Labels
Dear Editor: At last! A brave soul prepared to throw snowballs at the bastions of politically correct philosophy! Anja Steinbauer, I applaud you (Editorial, Philosophy Now 127)! Philosophy is philosophy. It has no need of silly labels like ‘analytical’ and ‘continental’.
Cedric Richmond, Nottingham
Barking Up The Wrong Dogma
Dear Editor: I’m not an academic, but my special interests (for want of a better term) are the philosophies of science and mathematics. Not surprisingly, I often cite authorities such as Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrodinger and Richard Feynman, along with many other luminaries who are not quite so famous. As Dr Grant herself points out in her article on ‘Dogmas’ in Issue 127, if one is referring to such authorities in the context of presenting one’s own thoughts in the form of a discussion, then that is hardly dogma.
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