Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

This blog post by Ed Feser deserves wide circulation. It is dismaying to me to see so much intellectual dishonesty among philosophers. They are progressives first and philosophers second. Many journals are now virtually unreadable, for the authors merely assume, without argument, that conservative (or libertarian) positions are untenable. Philosophical discourse is a progressive echo chamber, and because of this, positions become more and more extreme as each participant strives for attention. It's not enough, for example, to claim that the war in Iraq was wrong as a matter of policy. This would require painstaking argument. One must call the president of the United States a "war criminal" and impute bad motives to him. I'm not optimistic about the future of philosophy. Whatever authority philosophers once had as disinterested analysts is being dissipated. It's another example of Keith's Law. (If you don't know what this is, do a Google search of this blog in the left sidebar.)