How much academic philosophy have you personally read?
I’ve read a fair amount, and I don’t find it particularly abstruse. This includes not only quasi-popular books by the highest-status practitioners like Dennett and Chalmers but also ordinary journal papers by professors at my undergraduate institution.
I wouldn’t say the extremely diverse set of essays in Chalmers’ compilation are a shining example of philosophical clarity
Oh, certainly not—it’s a sampler, and all levels of clarity and confusion present in the field are represented. I cited it to show the typical writing style of papers in philosophy (over the years, since as I recall it starts with Descartes!).
How much academic philosophy have you personally read?
I’ve read a fair amount, and I don’t find it particularly abstruse. This includes not only quasi-popular books by the highest-status practitioners like Dennett and Chalmers but also ordinary journal papers by professors at my undergraduate institution.
It might be worth taking a look at Chalmers’ philosophy of mind anthology if you haven’t already.
Agree with your point, though I wouldn’t say the extremely diverse set of essays in Chalmers’ compilation are a shining example of philosophical clarity. I would recommend something like Epistemology and the Psychology of Human Judgment or Philosophy and Neuroscience: A Ruthlessly Reductive Account.
Oh, certainly not—it’s a sampler, and all levels of clarity and confusion present in the field are represented. I cited it to show the typical writing style of papers in philosophy (over the years, since as I recall it starts with Descartes!).