CHAPTER ONE The Wisdom That Failed

CHAPTER ONE The Wisdom That Failed
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Should philosophers be kings,
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ruled by the first 2,000 people listed in the telephone
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many leading philosophers have shown embarrassingly poor judgment
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How could people who are obviously very clever
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twentieth-century philosophers have a bad track record
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defending totalitarian political systems
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Jean-Paul Sartre
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Martin Heidegger

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Michel Foucault
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The terms continental and analytic
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committed “to the ideals of clarity, rigor, and argumentation”
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We Will Teach You How to Think, They Said
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philosophy serves to develop intellectual abilities
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the alleged effects of studying philosophy:

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enhance students’ analytical, critical, and communicative

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APA provides no evidence at all for the wonderful improvements
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“the issue of whether generalizable reasoning skills transfer to reasoning contexts outside of formal schooling remains an open question
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promise something like “far transfer”
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APA is involved in false advertising,

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correlation between studying philosophy and all these good outcomes does not mean that the former causes the latter.

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ERRORE DI RAZIONALIZZAZIONE IN CHI ESALTA LA FILOSOF

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those who embark on philosophy studies are simply smarter
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develop the capacities to “think well about important issues”
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a petition titled “Make Reasoning Skills Compulsory in Schools”
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only one scientific study.
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sample of 177 children,

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the study in question themselves explicitly cautioned the reader
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authors pointed out that their study suffered from methodological imperfections

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the durability of those effects
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a number of well-known philosophers (including Simon Blackburn, Jonathan Glover, Bill Brewer, A. C. Grayling, Duncan Pritchard, Peter Simons, Jon Williamson,
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among the names of the supporters we also find leading philosophers of science
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they should be acutely aware of the possibility of self-deception.
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Russell’s Paradox: A Genius with a Streak of Foolishness
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Bertrand Russell expressed a similar view about the practical usefulness of philosophy:
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essential characteristic of philosophy . . . is criticism.
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little trace of critical examination in many of Russell’s own actions

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about politics he is a perfect goose”
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United States was as much a police state as Hitler’s Germany or Stalin’s Russia.
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he American Garrison will be occupying England and France”
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it was “completely false” that the mass of Russians were against the Bolsheviks
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Russell comes close to saying the USA “is responsible for literally every evil in the world”
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Russell expressed “full solidarity” with the Vietnamese Communist
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“Better ten innocent deaths than one enemy survivor”
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he was demonstrating against the United States in favor of Soviet Russia”
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“Its oversimplification of the issues
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Communist Temptations at Oxford

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philosophy has beneficial consequences in the political domain:
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his sharp logical mind did not save him from “ill-founded enthusiasms.”
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admiration for the great men who had worked against gigantic odds, Marx and Lenin for example”
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impressed by the discipline and the austerity of life

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A. J. Ayer,
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after the book was published Ayer had a baffling bout of irrationality in politics.
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join the Communist Party
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Any reasonable person must have had serious doubts
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the British Communist Party took the hard Stalinist line
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his reason for not joining was that he “did not believe in dialectical materialism”
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Bad Arguments and Bad Politics: What Causes What?
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believed in the salutary influence of philosophy on political attitudes.
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philosophers in particular “have a duty to make themselves sensitive to social issues”
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Dummett’s philosophy didn’t keep him from making a fool
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Dagfinn Føllesdal,
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political follies and fanaticism.
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to show that some of the leading analytic philosophers have held political views that are both deeply troubling
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academic contributions to philosophy usually carried the marks of extremely careful thinking and the highest intellectual rigor.
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