remarks by Cogburn at New APPS

My review of Garcia prompts Cogburn to make some remarks at New APPS, HERE.

Cogburn is not only an analytically trained philosopher, but also a dues-paying member of SPEP, and he has some thoughts about SPEP in that post with which I am largely in agreement. (For my foreign readers, SPEP is the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy, recently turned 50 years old, the main continental philosophy society in the U.S.)

But for the record, I think SPEP is an important group for keeping a certain type of philosophical discourse alive in the USA that would otherwise be in peril. As to why that is necessary, look no further than the first comment under Cogburn’s post for a sample of the sort of dismissive snottiness that is generally aimed at our subfield.