Anti-Expertism

Over Easter I had a fun conversation with a professional metaphysician. He was a nice fellow who put up with a wine and pork glutted man’s complaints about academic philosophy. Were I to do repeat the conversation I would have handed him this essay and muttered something disparaging about the state of graduate students (it [...]

“I hope today to complicate our notion of cahiers — grievances — and the role they played in the States-General of 1789.” The professors and graduate students at the symposium nod appreciatively. They have heard or read similar justifications untold times before. The author explains that he or she will “complicate” our understanding of some [...]