Simon Critchley and others are going to speculate on the question in a series of articles in the NY Times. Let’s hope they interest and amuse…
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#1 by Wes Alwan on May 17, 2010 - 2:46 pm
And Leiter is not happy: http://leiterreports.typepad.com/blog/2010/05/what-is-the-ny-times-thinking.html
“They create a blog forum related to philosophy (“The Stone”), and then choose a complete hack as its moderator.”
Yowza.
#2 by Wes Alwan on May 17, 2010 - 2:48 pm
And FYI, Danto will be contributing, as well as Peter Singer.