A group of extremely good philosophers has just set up a blog, Left2Right, which they describe as follows:
“We’re a bunch of academics, mostly philosophers but also some lawyers, political scientists, and economists. We’re interested in liberal ideas, though we are probably far from unanimous about what “liberal” means, and our being interested in liberal ideas doesn’t entail that each of us subscribes to all of them. We think that political debate in this country has deteriorated into a shouting match, a food fight, a flame war — call it what you will. We’d like to consider whether liberal ideas should be somehow re-ordered, re-framed, re-stated, with the aim of increasing the overall ratio of dialog to diatribe in the American political forum. Some of us will be trying out various ways of re-thinking and re-formulating those ideas; others may end up arguing that such attempts are unnecessary, even counter-productive. And in the course of our discussion, there will be plenty of digressions and asides of the sort that naturally occur at the margins of a group discussion.”
The authors’ list includes some of the best moral philosophers currently working. They are very, very smart and very, very interesting. I encourage anyone who’s interested in these questions to check it out.
I had Estlund for a class or two in college. Whipsmart and funny as hell.
His participation is a good sign.
I looked over there.
Doomed to failure. Too many posters, of too low quality, too soon. They shouldn’t have publicized themselves.