Comments on: Some Reflections on Leiter's Insult http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/ The Sweet Release of Reason Thu, 09 Feb 2012 18:11:50 +0000 hourly 1 By: A Critique of Impure Reason « Christian Marks http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/#comment-17993 A Critique of Impure Reason « Christian Marks Thu, 20 May 2010 07:36:18 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1999#comment-17993 [...] a comment » Brian Leiter has launched an Internet letter-writing campaign from his Philosophy Gossip Blog to protest the New [...] [...] a comment » Brian Leiter has launched an Internet letter-writing campaign from his Philosophy Gossip Blog to protest the New [...]

]]> By: ---------- http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/#comment-17994 ---------- Thu, 21 May 2009 07:21:47 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1999#comment-17994 Brian Leiter is a sad little man with serious psychological problems. This doesn't make his arguments bad (all the time), but it certainly makes him a petty, sniveling whiner---and an asshole. He allows his resentment of anyone with a different opinion than him to force him to act like a total baby (who is the Nietzschean here? Aren't we supposed to be Yes-sayers!?). No one...no one has ever read anything he's ever written other than his bullshit blog which is the only reason he is of the mistaken opinion that he is a 'serious' scholar. His interpretation of Nietzsche is third rate---at best. And unimaginative. It is motivated by the kind of stupidity that only a pernicious ideologue who was neglected as a child can muster. Don't take it too hard that he's attacked you for trying to do something interesting and important. He is the worst kind of philistine--that is, one who does not know that he is tasteless, uninteresting and--overall--a schmuck. Brian Leiter is a sad little man with serious psychological problems. This doesn't make his arguments bad (all the time), but it certainly makes him a petty, sniveling whiner—and an asshole. He allows his resentment of anyone with a different opinion than him to force him to act like a total baby (who is the Nietzschean here? Aren't we supposed to be Yes-sayers!?). No one…no one has ever read anything he's ever written other than his bullshit blog which is the only reason he is of the mistaken opinion that he is a 'serious' scholar. His interpretation of Nietzsche is third rate—at best. And unimaginative. It is motivated by the kind of stupidity that only a pernicious ideologue who was neglected as a child can muster. Don't take it too hard that he's attacked you for trying to do something interesting and important. He is the worst kind of philistine–that is, one who does not know that he is tasteless, uninteresting and–overall–a schmuck.

]]> By: ---------- http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/#comment-17992 ---------- Thu, 21 May 2009 00:21:47 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1999#comment-17992 Brian Leiter is a sad little man with serious psychological problems. This doesn't make his arguments bad (all the time), but it certainly makes him a petty, sniveling whiner---and an asshole. He allows his resentment of anyone with a different opinion than him to force him to act like a total baby (who is the Nietzschean here? Aren't we supposed to be Yes-sayers!?). No one...no one has ever read anything he's ever written other than his bullshit blog which is the only reason he is of the mistaken opinion that he is a 'serious' scholar. His interpretation of Nietzsche is third rate---at best. And unimaginative. It is motivated by the kind of stupidity that only a pernicious ideologue who was neglected as a child can muster. Don't take it too hard that he's attacked you for trying to do something interesting and important. He is the worst kind of philistine--that is, one who does not know that he is tasteless, uninteresting and--overall--a schmuck. Brian Leiter is a sad little man with serious psychological problems. This doesn't make his arguments bad (all the time), but it certainly makes him a petty, sniveling whiner—and an asshole. He allows his resentment of anyone with a different opinion than him to force him to act like a total baby (who is the Nietzschean here? Aren't we supposed to be Yes-sayers!?). No one…no one has ever read anything he's ever written other than his bullshit blog which is the only reason he is of the mistaken opinion that he is a 'serious' scholar. His interpretation of Nietzsche is third rate—at best. And unimaginative. It is motivated by the kind of stupidity that only a pernicious ideologue who was neglected as a child can muster. Don't take it too hard that he's attacked you for trying to do something interesting and important. He is the worst kind of philistine–that is, one who does not know that he is tasteless, uninteresting and–overall–a schmuck.

]]> By: GilM http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/#comment-17991 GilM Mon, 17 Nov 2008 01:39:46 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1999#comment-17991 So, it seems like Leiter has done a BloggingHeads.tv <a href="http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/15918" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">diavlog</a>, but with Scott Shapiro on the Hart-Dworkin debate, rather than on Free Will. So, it seems like Leiter has done a BloggingHeads.tv diavlog, but with Scott Shapiro on the Hart-Dworkin debate, rather than on Free Will.

]]> By: daniel1 http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/#comment-17990 daniel1 Tue, 14 Oct 2008 03:39:36 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1999#comment-17990 Enough of this. Let it roll off. Some people have a talent for sucking you into their own morass of insecurity. Enough of this. Let it roll off. Some people have a talent for sucking you into their own morass of insecurity.

]]> By: The Drunken Priest http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/#comment-17989 The Drunken Priest Tue, 14 Oct 2008 00:56:23 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1999#comment-17989 Leiter! Well...what a tarantula, in Nietzsche's phrase, always resentful of the superior. In a word, Leiter's piss-poor reasoning powers are the outcome of years and years of peer-reviewed servility, chasing credentialist pats on the head. <br><br>What a hypocrite! Nietzchean neither in philosophy nor wit. Leiter! Well…what a tarantula, in Nietzsche's phrase, always resentful of the superior. In a word, Leiter's piss-poor reasoning powers are the outcome of years and years of peer-reviewed servility, chasing credentialist pats on the head.

What a hypocrite! Nietzchean neither in philosophy nor wit.

]]> By: Bobcat http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/#comment-17988 Bobcat Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:18:23 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1999#comment-17988 If anyone should be held responsible for the comments section on something, perhaps it is Leiter when writes on his blog, in response to an (admittedly silly) article by Ross Douthat: "I invite my many knowledgeable philosophical readers to give this silly man the intellectual drubbing he needs on this subject." See <a href="http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/02/nonsense_about_.html" rel="nofollow">http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/02/n...</a>. If anyone should be held responsible for the comments section on something, perhaps it is Leiter when writes on his blog, in response to an (admittedly silly) article by Ross Douthat: “I invite my many knowledgeable philosophical readers to give this silly man the intellectual drubbing he needs on this subject.” See http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2005/02/n….

]]> By: Bobcat http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/#comment-17987 Bobcat Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:08:04 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1999#comment-17987 Leiter's work is well-regarded enough to have made an appearance (twice, I think) in Philosopher's Annual, the collection of the top 10 philosophy articles of the year. Leiter's work is well-regarded enough to have made an appearance (twice, I think) in Philosopher's Annual, the collection of the top 10 philosophy articles of the year.

]]> By: Usyless http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/#comment-17986 Usyless Mon, 13 Oct 2008 17:47:38 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1999#comment-17986 It seems Leiter wants Will to "take responsibility for the comments section of his blog" before he can talk with "grown-ups" like himself or Jerry Dworkin. Execrable condescension aside, can someone explain why Will is responsible for the comments of other people on an essentially open forum? It seems Leiter wants Will to “take responsibility for the comments section of his blog” before he can talk with “grown-ups” like himself or Jerry Dworkin. Execrable condescension aside, can someone explain why Will is responsible for the comments of other people on an essentially open forum?

]]> By: Michael Drake http://willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/10/12/some-reflections-on-leiters-insult/#comment-17985 Michael Drake Mon, 13 Oct 2008 14:42:40 +0000 http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/?p=1999#comment-17985 Will, I think you pointlessly dissed Leiter and Dworkin (and they you), but your Bh show is great. Fugedaboudit. Will, I think you pointlessly dissed Leiter and Dworkin (and they you), but your Bh show is great. Fugedaboudit.

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