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Causes of Death of Philosophers
« on: 2007-04-04 03:53:44 » |
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http://maverickphilosopher.powerblogs.com/posts/1175650659.shtml
Causes of Death of Philosophers
Here. For example, Rescher died of incoherence while Spinoza died of substance abuse. Miguel de Unamuno expired from a tragic loss of sense. Plantinga perished of necessity, and Augustine by a Hippo. As you can see, some are nasty and one needn't be dead to have a cause of death assigned. Last I checked, Professor Rescher was still happily scribbling away. And that reminds me of a joke.
A student goes to visit Professor Rescher. Secretary informs her that the good doctor is not available because he is writing a book. Student replies, "I'll wait."
[Bl.] Some personal favourites:
Anselm: Than which no deadlier can be conceived
Aquinas: Last causes
Aristotle: Excessive moderation
Bacon, F: Hit by idol in market place
Bentham: Fell off his stilts
Camus: Found exit
Castaneda: Indexical self-disguise
Plato: Caved in
Chomsky: Degenerative transformation
Dawkins: Suicidal genes
Dennett: Lost consciousness
Derrida: Deconstructed
Diogenes: Exposure
Eliot: Eructation of unhealthy souls
Frege: Fell under a concept
Gödel: Became incomplete
Hegel: Gave up the Geist
Heisenberg: Uncertain causes
Hobbes: Nasty causes
Husserl: Phenomenally bad luck
Lacan: Lack
Levi-Strauss: Eaten by natives
Nagel, Tom: Struck by bat
Paley: Bad design
Parmenides: No two ways
Pirsig: Motorbike crashed
Plato: Caved in
Popper: Falsified
Protagoras: Eaten by fish
Santayana: A thousand vexations and vanities
Sartre: Nothing doing
Searle: Chinese food
Turing: Failed his own test
Wittgenstein: Became the late Wittgenstein
Zeno: Run over by tortoise
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