[Vision2020] J. K. Campbell's "Strawson's Free Will Naturalism" on U of I Website!?

Wed Nov 4 11:40:57 PST 2009

Practicing fake medicine?  Those preaching ethics and theology from many
pulpits are often not sufficiently qualified professionally, promoting gross
oversimplifications of philosophy, from the point of view of a PhD doing
technical academic philosophy.  They sometimes promote that gays are
terrible sinners, promoting bigotry, that those following other
religions will not be "saved," which can encourage discrimination against
other religions, that women be subservient, that well researched scientific
theories are false (evolution), encouraging anti-science (Creationism)
curriculum in schools, and an anti-science attitude in general, resulting in
millions in the US hampering necessary political and economic changes to
address critical problems that are based on a broad understanding of
science, such as climate change.  I could go on... but... Are they
philosophical theological fakes?  It would seem so...

The preceding paragraph actually belongs in the thread on the
Hitchens/Wilson debate...

What you wrote, which I think has merit, regarding the discussion of the
Hitchens/Wilson "debate," is the following, which implies rather clearly,
unless I'm misreading intention, that the Hitchens/Wilson debate was somehow
"...creating the illusion the one is really doing philosophy:"

http://mailman.fsr.com/pipermail/vision2020/2009-November/066979.html

"There are a host of issues here that I wouldn't
even attempt to address in a single course, let alone a book or a
movie. This is an oversimplification of philosophy. As a philosopher,
this kind of stuff drives me up the wall. But I understand that
philosophy is open to all, so in the end there is nothing wrong with
it other than creating the illusion that one is really doing
philosophy."
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Anyway, I don't recall that I wrote that you or anyone is a "real
philosopher" or that you said as much about yourself.   I said I was seeking
"real" philosophy to read, by which I meant work that is perhaps
more academic, specialized, more technical, maybe less aimed at the general
public for consumption.  What I found in your articles is just the ticket,
with challenging and interesting new ideas, at least to my mind.

Of course different academic schools of philosophy around the world have
very different approaches to the problems they address, that are perhaps
mutually exclusive.  The disagreements might result in some professional
academic philosophers declaring some others to be not doing "real"
philosophy.  Compare Baudrillard with your approach...

I also located a couple of more papers online, one that is published, it
appears:

http://philpapers.org/rec/KEIFWA

http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118517190/abstract?CRETRY=1&SRETRY=0

 Free will and the necessity of the past
Joseph Keim Campbell*
  *Washington State University
 Analysis <http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118517170/home>
*Volume 67 Issue
294*<http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/118517187/issue>
*, Pages 105 - 111*
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And another that I'm not sure whether to call it "published" or not, but it
is directly available on the web with no log-in or fee:

"Pereboom on Deliberation"
Joseph Keim Campbell
Washington State University
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I like this opening sentence:

"To quote the *Velvet Underground*, “I have made the big decision.*"*

http://experimentalphilosophy.typepad.com/2nd_annual_online_philoso/files/cambells_commentary_on_pereboom.pdf
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Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett

On 11/4/09, Joe Campbell <philosopher.joe at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>  Also, I never said I was a "real philosopher." I am a professional
> philosopher, that us, I have a job teaching philosophy and that job requires
> that I publish also.
>
>
> Look if you were a doctor and saw someone practicing fake medicine  -- and
> getting a lot of attention for it -- I'm sure it would tick you off. And not
> just because it's dangerous. Don't make too much out of it. And if you find
> an instance where I show disrespect for my opponent, I'd like to know about
> it.
>
>
> That's 3 for me! See you tomorrow!
>
>
> Amen!
>
> On Nov 4, 2009, at 4:51 AM, Ted Moffett <starbliss at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>  In seeking some "real" philosophy to read, I decided to look up articles
> by Joseph Keim Campbell, Washington State University philosopher who
> sometimes contributes to Vision2020.  Oddly, Campbell's faculty page on the
> WSU website does not list his published articles, nor any article in total.
> Or did I miss something?
>
> The MIT press lists books that J. K. Campbell has edited, but these are
> collections of essays by various authors.  The informationphilosopher.comwebsite quotes one Campbell article, "A Compatibilist Theory of Alternative
> Possibilities," *Philosophical Studies*, 88, pp.319-30, 1997, which is
> also listed on philpapers.org, though it indicates "Philosophical Studies67 (3):339-44," with two other listed articles, (2005). Compatibilist
> Alternatives. <http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwCompatCampbell.html> Canadian
> Journal Of Philosophy 35 (3):387-406(1996), Hume's Refutation of the
> Cosmological Argument.<http://www.springerlink.com/content/w33884331m8165w3/fulltext.pdf> International
> Journal for Philosophy of Religion 40 (3), and one reference to an MIT
> press collection of essays by various authors.
>
> I found two J. K. Campbell articles, with admittedly limited research, that
> are available in total online with direct access (no log-in or fee), an
> article titled as in the subject heading, oddly on the University of Idaho's
> website:
> http://www.uiweb.uidaho.edu/philosophy/essays/Campbell.Stawson.pdf , not
> WSU's, and "Compatabilist Alternatives" as listed above, at this website:
> http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~uctytho/dfwCompatCampbell.html
>
> The two other articles mentioned above are available with a log-in and/or
> fee from the web links given at philpapers.org, which I did not pursue.
>
> Perhaps there is a comprehensive listing somewhere of all of J. K.
> Campbell's publications in philosophy?  It's puzzling that the WSU website
> does not offer a comprehensive listing of Campbell's published articles,
> unless I missed it.
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> Vision2020 Post: Ted Moffett
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