>I read everything in my Graduate classes and that was 2,000 to 13,000 pages a class a semester. If you aren't careful with your reading That is the exact opp

>I read everything in my Graduate classes and that was 2,000 to 13,000 pages a class a semester. If you aren't careful with your reading That is the exact opposite of careful reading, that is skimming. But of course your super-brain can process and fully understand 13,000 pages per class per semester without skimming. How ridiculous. >I am 100% aware that that statement is untrue. No, you're just trolling, and I'm starting to doubt that you even have studied philosophy. >My parents : "Just cause everyone else is doing it doesn't mean its right" ...and also not that it's false... >Also my empirical evidence is different then yours. <sarcasm>Well, I'm so sorry that I haven't used your empirical evidence in my original post then.</sarcasm> But what's even more troubling about your post is that you confuse empirical evidence with personal experience, which are the words that I have used. That's exactly the kind of sloppiness that is rightly giving philosophy such a bad rap. >You use empirical evidence so I kind of am done with this discussion. I would leave that standing as is, except I need to point out that empirical evidence != personal experience. So much for your reading comprehension. >You have acted dismissive to the article and of my words. Yes, that article is crap, full of deviations, jumps in thinking, loose association, and vague and fuzzy vocabulary. It's a light essay, not what I would count as serious philosophy. If you cannot live with the fact that others disagree with you about your articles, then philosophy is really not the right place for you to be, because, as you should have noticed by now, people disagree a lot in philosophy. >Every student with a BA or a BS with some rare exceptions must all complete a Philosophy/Ethics class. I guess I should have told them to all drop out instead of having to learn Philosophy in this class for the next 13 weeks? Frankly speaking, I have gotten doubts whether they learn philosophy in those classes at all, as opposed to history of philosophy, fast reading, and essay writing. >Your presenting yourself cynic and not a skeptic. Oh dear, how cliche is that. I'm neither a skeptic nor a cynic. I have clearly stated that 10% of the publications in philosophy are extremely interesting and worth reading. Similar things can be said about every discipline, the vast majority of what is published is sub par, only the ratio of trash:good differs from discipline to discipline. If you cannot even agree with that, then I can only shake my head in disbelieve and move on. Anyway, you should perhaps take it a bit easier and try sounding like a normal person rather than some highly pretentious 'eminent scholar'. I didn't like your article and I still don't like it, okay? You disagree with my assessment of the article and the state of philosophy. Fine. Noted. Bye!