“The problem is when you try to have it both ways: the elegance of traditional philosophy directed at real-world problems. If the result is elegant, it won’t help you understand the problem. If it helps you understand the problem, it probably won’t be very elegant.”
New piece defending the applied turn in analytic philosophy. I say what the applied turn is, how it differs from the social turn, and why it isn't just left progressivism cloaked in the language of analytic philosophy.
open.substack.com/pub/rbnmcken...
