Michael Patrick Lynch, a thoughtful scholar with an intense devotion to democracy and a clear desire to do all he can for both its preservation and enlargement, has recently written a wide-ranging book on the nature and relationships of truth (along with the desire to find it) and deliberative democracy. My new review of his book, however, focuses mostly on how his understandings of both truth and democracy differ from my own. While I stand by my criticisms, I admit that my piece now seems to me come off as a bit harsh and know-it-ally.
FWIW, I attribute my emphasis on disagreements of this type with my being something of a "hollaback girl" at heart#--(though I suppose I may credit myself for not being what Lynch calls a "Twitbookian"). I want to stress the fact, however, that no one should think I am hollaingback specifically at Lynch! Maybe it's just at the philosophical world at large? Though if it is, it's definitely not because one of my besties told me that it was talking about me. This, I think, is an unattractive characteristic I share with Samuel Butler, the thinker from whom I stole the name of this blog.
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#As we know from her song, Gwen Stefani ain't no hollaback girl herself.
