Philosophy Has A Conformism Problem

Not as bad as other fields, but still

Gather 'round while I sing you of Wernher von Braun,
A man whose allegiance
Is ruled by expedience.

—Tom Lehrer “Wernher Von Braun” (perhaps the funniest song ever—many people are saying this!)

Analytic philosophers are my people!

Sure, I think most analytic philosophers are wrong about plenty of stuff—who isn’t? But they are uniquely competent at thinking. When they’re wrong, they’re generally wrong in clever ways. They are one of the two groups I feel extreme affinity towards, the other being effective altruism. And yet it has a problem, a deep rot within the halls of the academy.