{"id":693,"date":"2009-03-03T10:19:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T17:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/03\/job-security-for-philosophers-theists-must-stay-in-the-closet\/"},"modified":"2009-02-28T09:31:24","modified_gmt":"2009-02-28T16:31:24","slug":"job-security-for-philosophers-theists-must-stay-in-the-closet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2009\/03\/03\/job-security-for-philosophers-theists-must-stay-in-the-closet\/","title":{"rendered":"Job Security for Philosophers: Theists must stay in the closet"},"content":{"rendered":"

At the link, a very interesting description of a debate between a theist philosopher and an atheist philosopher, which sounds very interesting in its own terms, and this revealing confession.<\/a><\/p>\n

I was at the talk. It was packed with professional philosophers and graduate students in philosophy, most of whom sided with Dennett. I wrote live comments on the debate\/session. I prefer to remain anonymous for various reasons, in particular because I am inclined towards Plantinga’s position over Dennett’s and were this to become well-known it could damage or destroy my career in analytic philosophy. This is something I prefer not to put my family through. I almost didn’t publish these comments at all, but as far as I could tell, this would be the only public record of the discussion.<\/p>\n

Friends, if you can identify me, I request that you keep my identity secret. I am sharing my thoughts as a service to the philosophical community and all those who have an interest in such debates. But I prefer not to suffer at the hands of my ardently secular colleagues. This is not to say that all secular analytic philosophers are this way; they most certainly are not. But enough of them are that I cannot risk being known publicly.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But wait! I thought the Left was all about tolerance<\/i>. And DIVERSITY! <\/p>\n

SURE it is.<\/p>\n

Here’s the link to the exchange between Plantinga and Dennett<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Disclaimer:  while I’m obviously a theist, I don’t find so called “theistic evolution<\/a>” to be a particularly convincing perspective, nor the attempts to rename it<\/a> but not change the underlying concept.<\/p>\n

But the “live blog” of the Plantinga\/Dennett debate is very interesting.<\/p>\n

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