Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Epistemic Luck

Tyrrell_McAllister 13 Feb 2010 9:32 UTC
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[. . .] or at the very least we should expect non-academic philosophers to frequently cite the academics.

A very analogous argument to yours would allow us to conclude that non-academic philosophy is not about truth-seeking.

But we do see non-academics citing academics. Non-academic amateurs will refer to the likes of Quine, Russell, or Searle.
- Mitchell_Porter 13 Feb 2010 10:15 UTC
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  It goes the other way too; Taleb and Yudkowsky are not completely ignored by academia. Nonetheless, the insularity of academic intellectuals and the disdain for academia of non-academic intellectuals are real phenomena. There is a symmetry to the situation, but Dan wants to draw an asymmetric conclusion.