Philosophical lineage...
Today, Leiter has had some stuff up on his blog regarding "philosophical genealogy"--meant in the straightforward sense of lineage based on dissertation directors. Obviously, all of the stuff on his blog has to do with analytic philosophers. I started thinking about ours, though it is really hard to draw out. For those of us who worked under Busch, I could only go back as far as our "grandfather"--John O. Riedl. He got his PhD from Marquette in 1930, but I don't know under whom.
As you might imagine, Ammon's is the most imediately impressive--IF we accept habilitations and dissertations. If you allow for that (and I don't see why we shouldn't), one can do the following: Ammon-Denny-Gadamer-Headgear-Heinrich Rickert-Wilhelm Windelband-Hermann Lotzes. Lotzes is the last one I could figure...
Any more thoughts on this?
As you might imagine, Ammon's is the most imediately impressive--IF we accept habilitations and dissertations. If you allow for that (and I don't see why we shouldn't), one can do the following: Ammon-Denny-Gadamer-Headgear-Heinrich Rickert-Wilhelm Windelband-Hermann Lotzes. Lotzes is the last one I could figure...
Any more thoughts on this?
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Thursday June 30, 2005 at 7:33pm