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Only a few days after I posted an unkind comment about "professional wisdom lovers", one of today's better known academic philosophers came out with a proposal to rename the field, so as to remove long-standing prejudices against practitioners of this discipline.
Aside from its delusional view of the discipline, the proposal reveals a remarkably feeble-minded hope that socially engineered changes in our use of language can (magically) change people's attitudes. Instead of reading Plato, Kant, and Wittgenstein, Colin McGinn could have found some real wisdom in Elmore Leonard who, in the opening pages of his novel Be Cool, shows exactly how much people's pre-existing attitudes are affected by socially engineered linguistic changes:
... I look up, here's five big African-American niggers standing right up against my desk ...A racist mafioso record label owner Tommy Athens, in Elmore Leonard's novel Be Cool (italics mine).
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