In his review (in the journal Science -- cool!) of my recently released book, The Weirdness of the World, Edouard Machery writes: There are two kinds of philosophers: swallows and moles. Swallows love to soar and to entertain philosophical hypotheses at best loosely connected with empirical knowledge. Plato and Gottfried Leibniz are paradigmatic swallows. Moles, on the contrary, rummage through mundane facts about our world and aim at better understanding it. Aristotle, William James, and Hans Reichenbach are paradigmatic moles. Eric Schwitzgebel is unabashedly a swallow.
Congratulations on the review. It's a great outlet: readers of Science might well be the kinds of people who would be interested in speculative philosophy.
Congratulations on the review. It's a great outlet: readers of Science might well be the kinds of people who would be interested in speculative philosophy.
Quails aren't so bad. It's Shu and Hu that I worry about.