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Minds Memes & Windsurfing - Daniel Dennett

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What Made You Part Ways With Analytic Philosophy?

I'm still officially an analytic philosopher but a lot of analytic philosophers would drum me out of the core I guess. One of my favorite quotes is from the great Canadian psychologist Donald Hibb who once said if it isn’t worth doing it it isn't worth doing well. And I decided that the proposition of attitude task force wasn't worth doing. Now I didn't just decide that and walk away, I wrote beyond belief to show I thought why it wasn't worth Doing It. But once a decade I look in on it to see whether they've made any progress. They reinvent one of my wheels from that paper and think that's some more progress. But I for one am not

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