Re: [Pen-l] Leiter Reports: The last poll about philosophers...

[Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher@xxxxxxxxx>]

I don't have much to add to Leiter's comment below the posted poll results. I will say, leaving aside the obvious self-selecting bias against French philosophy, that I find it mind-boggling that anybody but maybe -- maybe -- Wittgenstein beats Hegel. I would disagree on LW, but it seems to this humble wannabe that his is the only other plausible case to be made.

What a bizarre list. But I guess really that's what these things are for, right? Taking the temperature of a certain group of people. We learn more about them than we do about who we should be reading.

On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 11:35 AM, ravi <ravi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Brian Leiter is running a poll on the most important philosopher in the last 200 years:

http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2009/03/the-last-poll-about-philosophers-for-awhilei-promise.html

Your boy Karl got past my man, the big H, but is currently losing to my boys Quine(*) and Russell. Its heart-warming that 3 of the top 5 are mathematicians/logicians and the top one could almost be considered one! Sweet! ;-)

       --ravi


(*) yes I do know his politics.

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