A tiny question.

[Hartwin Alfred Gebhardt]

Marty Bickman writes:

> Yes, but we have consider the arguments of people like Richard Rorty, no 
> longer in the "discipline," who have pointed out how "professional" 
> philosophers become blinded and narrowed by their disciplinary concerns.  
> Certalnly philosophy departments in American universities have not been 
> where the intellectual action has been for the past fifty years.

1. "Philosophy always buries its own undertakers" (someone somewhere, 
more or less).
2. But not to worry: Rorty at his most interesting is very much a philosopher, 
no matter how he sometimes denies it.

hg
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