Episode 247: Open the Pod, Dave (with Sam Harris)
Very Bad Wizards
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Sam Chased Richard Rorty Around
Sam used to chase Richard Rorty around. I took every course he taught regardless of its subject matter, just so that I could argue with him about pragmatism. He had been ejected if he ever was in the philosophy department at Stanford, he had been ejected from it. So you've softened a little bit on his view since? Not much. But there's a long time to see these claims explicitly before they can be taken seriously.
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