reader mail on Leiter

“it’s clear that he’s been a total careerist d*** for years—-but what’s become a more interesting story is the way that he’s also become a medium for a very specific model of anglophone philosophy that is dismissive of all forms of history of philosophy, metaphysics, pragmatism, continental philosophy, philosophy of art, etc. i imagine there must be major grumblings in other subfields”

I’ve wondered about this sometimes as well. Even within analytic philosophy, there seems to be a remarkable narrowness to the outlook he represents.