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'We are philosophers.'
'Though we may not be!'
'Yes we ARE!'
'We are philosophers.'
'Though we may not be!'
'Yes we ARE!'
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10/10/2005: 'Who are you?'
'We are philosophers.'
'Though we may not be!'
'Yes we ARE!'
Over at Amherst, they've set up a new webpage: AskPhilosophers. A number of academic philosophers are the "panel". You ask them questions; at least one of them provides the answer. Right now, it looks to be better than Marilyn Vos Savant (not that anything could be worse than Marilyn), but not as entertaining as The Straight Dope. On the other hand, I have to admit that the introductory paragraph is promising:
What is AskPhilosophers? This site puts the talents and knowledge of philosophers at the service of the general public. Send in a question that you think might be related to philosophy and we will do our best to respond to it. To date, there have been 104 questions posted and 107 responses.Promising, because I find it almost as amusing as the old economics joke:
Ask five different economists a question, and you'll get five different answers. Six, if one got his Ph.D. at Harvard.Credit: Brian Leiter.
Len on 10.10.05 @ 12:18 PM CST
