ATTN: Western Philosophy Nerds

[NWC]

Apart from what Cain pointed out, I would beef up the Modernity 2 section. Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, and Jaspers make up a big chunk of phenomenology from the second half of the 20th century. Maybe Michel Henri as well, though I don't really know how important he's considered outside of la francophonie.

Also, I would consider Fichte important enough to the Germany Ideology movement to put him in there.

Almost forgot! Super important: Hannah Arendt.

One more thing: you're dissection of Habermas only includes his political work, without making any mention of his epistemology (which is super exciting!).

Otherwise it's not bad

[NWC]

I just fell onto this on stumbleupon

[Jasper]

Oh wait-

Needs (well, I think so:) Dennett, Chalmers, Blackmore, Block, Damasio, Nagel, and, hell why not, Hofstadter.

[Cain]

I veto Chalmers, on the premise that philosophical zombies are the silliest shit I have ever encountered.

[Kai]

I veto Chalmers, on the premise that philosophical zombies are the silliest shit I have ever encountered.

Yeah, holy shit is that stupid. I didn't even know about it till Yudowsky covered it in one of his sequences.

"People are walking around, exactly like us, down to the very molecular arrangements, except they're not conscious."

[Jasper]

While I also dispute Chalmers' claims, this is something of a misconstrual of his actual argument.  He does not suppose (at least in this particular argument) that these zombies actually exist.  His claim is that if it is possible in a purely conceptual sense for PZ's to exist, then qualia must exist, which, by his reasoning, means physicalism is false.

Also, being wrong does not preclude philosophers from being "important".  Philosophers, disappointingly, do not have the same victory conditions as we do.