[MD] Academic philosophy

[david]

Originally, John said:

...It certainly illuminates a great deal about why the philosophical community has completely ignored Pirsig's work.  According to Auxier, its because the philosophical community is sociopathic,,,



But then a few days later, John denied his original claim:

Obviously not all academia is being attacked here - both authors are academics! No, it's a certain school of philosophy and it's the school that Phaedrus ripped into so it's hard for me to see why you [Arlo] protesteth so much.



dmb says:

What's "obvious" is that you attempted to indict "academic philosophy" (the name you gave to your post) and to indict the "philosophic community". That's very, very sloppy work and/or you're simply being dishonest. I sincerely wonder if you even care about what's true and what isn't true. 


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect


"The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias manifesting in unskilled individuals suffering from illusory superiority, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate. This bias is attributed to a metacognitive inability of the unskilled to recognize their ineptitude."


"The phenomenon was first tested in a series of experiments published 
in 1999 by David Dunning and Justin Kruger of the Department of 
Psychology, Cornell University. The study was inspired by the case of McArthur Wheeler,
 a man who robbed two banks after covering his face with lemon juice in 
the mistaken belief that it would prevent his face from being recorded 
on surveillance cameras.
 They noted that earlier studies suggested that ignorance of standards 
of performance lies behind a great deal of incorrect self assessments of
 competence. This pattern was seen in studies of skills as diverse as 
reading comprehension, operating a motor vehicle, and playing chess or 
tennis.
Dunning and Kruger proposed that, for a given skill, incompetent people will:

tend to overestimate their own level of skill;fail to recognize genuine skill in others;fail to recognize the extremity of their inadequacy;do recognize and acknowledge their own previous lack of skill, if they are exposed to training for that skill.
Dunning has since drawn an analogy ("the anosognosia of everyday life")
 with a condition in which a person who suffers a physical disability 
because of brain injury seems unaware of or denies the existence of the 
disability, even for dramatic impairments such as blindness or 
paralysis."




"If you’re incompetent, you can’t know you’re incompetent. […] the 
skills you need to produce a right answer are exactly the skills you 
need to recognize what a right answer is." —David Dunning