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by yyrrll 2724 days ago
Still worse, ignoring that philosophy has _always_ proceeded as a statement of theories to be questioned and improved upon.

The scholarship is just bad. The whole argument is full of mis-statements of critiqued positions.

Anyone interested in the article is better served to start reading Plato, Locke, Hume, Smith . . . .

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Wait, did you read her actual scholarship, or the summary of it given in a... New Yorker article?

The pompous middlebrow dismissal strikes again. In this moment I am euphoric.

If the article misrepresents the actual work, please, by all means, show that.