From: Erin (macavity11@yahoo.com)
Date: Wed Apr 06 2005 - 06:15:57 BST
ANT wrote:
Finally, though you don’t mention this, I guess the underlying reason that
you are so concerned with the philosopher-philosophologist distinction is
because Rorty essentially perceives himself as being a philosophologist.
For instance, note this remark of Rorty’s from this 1995 interview:
“I don't think I have any original ideas. I think that all I do is pick up
bits of Derrida and bits of Dewey and put them next to each other and bits
of Davidson and bits of Wittgenstein and stuff like that. It's just a talent
for bricolage, rather than any originality. If you don't have an original
mind, you comment on people who do.”
ERIN: I just sent a post on this but just wanted to add one more thought about it--- Pirsig's slips of paper procedure....is that process original? Isn't this piecing process is what everybody is doing when they are philosophizing--piecing together others ideas, thoughts on others ideas, and their own original insights?
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