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    Some background: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/12/thousands-of-university-of-nottingham-staff-told-they-are-at-risk-of-redundancy Not only does Nottingham University have a good academic reputation, the city of Nottingham has a great…

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It turns out Christoph Schuringa knows very little about the “social” history of analytic philosophy

Peter Ludlow’s analysis is quite devastating. I’m surprised other reviewers didn’t pick up on these remarkable mistakes and omissions.

UPDATE: A couple of readers sent this review by Pascal Engel, which I had not seen, and which makes points related to those discussed by Ludlow. (I should add that I do think much “analytic” philosophy is inherently conservative, because of the heavy reliance on “intuitions” and “common sense,” but this is not “conservatism” in a particularly political sense of the word. The class position of most moral and political philosophers does play a pretty obvious role in what they consider the defensible positions in their fields, but that does not carry over to most other parts of philosophy. Herbert Marcuse underook a similarly vulgar “Marxist” critique of analytic philosophy in 1964 in One-Dimensional Man, and it was not the highlight of the book, and as with Schuringa, it mostly served to reveal that he didn’t know a lot about what he was criticizing.)

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