In Praise of Fence-Sitting
October 30, 2009
There is no place for ‘isms’ in philosophy. The alleged party issues are never the important philosophic questions, and to be affiliated to a recognizable party is to be the slave of a non-philosophic prejudice in favour of a (usually non-philosophic) article of belief. To be a ‘so-and-so ist’ is to be philosophically frail.
– Gilbert Ryle, ‘Taking Sides in Philosophy’ (1937)
