Is Philosophy a Con?
Nov 6 · 8 min read

Gathering dust on a shelf in the Ivory Tower’s basement is a ragged tome that tells of the trouble with Western philosophy. Some philosophy graduate students, who had been seduced by the chance of speculating for a living and who discovered the dark secret too late have whispered of the horrors within that haunted tower.
But do their devastating reports about the state of academic philosophy show that philosophy itself is…

