Philosophy Has Made Plenty of Progress
The only thing our world needs now is a reorientation away from growth at all costs into a mode of life that values the simple, the close by, the cheap.<p>I don&#x27;t see this guy giving a damn about that problem. Instead he tosses off bon mots about Popper and Gödel, and intones comfortably that in his view his peers have the right idea because they converge on atheism&#x2F;agnosticism. Wow. The world is saved.<p>There is a class of people who value a &quot;small life,&quot; the kind we all need to adopt: zen monks. Unfortunately, such people are afflicted by the disease of irrationalism in their ideas about God, or some similar concept that offends the sensibility of the excessively rational so much that they can only paint Belief in the most lurid colors.<p>Highly unfashionable to study such people. Instead, a professional philosopher keeps giving interviews, attending conferences and publishing papers. I&#x27;ll be glad when we can no longer afford them. I also apologize for my lack of charity but there it is.