Instead he seems more interested in self-promotion, which he achieves by tweaking the noses of both scientists and the ID folks. Over the past few years it has become obvious that Ruse is motivated by rather more than a desire to make good arguments about important subjects. The fears about Ruse that Dennett is expressing here are hardly original to him. I will probably blog about that review at a later date. The reference in the question near the end is to New Republic literary editor Leon Wieseltier, who wrote a nasty, and mostly inaccurate, review of Dennett's new book for the New York Times. Are you among the Wieseltiers? I’d like to think not, but you are certainly being pulled in by them. and think you are doing a disservice to the cause of taking science seriously. As you will see, I do lump your coinage in with “reductionism” and “scientism” etc. You may want to try to extricate yourself, since you are certainly losing ground fast in the evolutionary community that I am in touch with. I’m afraid you are being enlisted on the side of the forces of darkness. Still, I can't imagine why Ruse would do such a thing. Compared to Ruse's profanity laden and semi-coherent rant in reply Dennett comes off looking quite good, actually. Not that Dennett comes off looking especially bad in the exchange. Handing over private e-mails to someone Dennett surely would not have wanted to have them is obnoxious and petty. But until this I had viewed him as someone I was happy to have on my side despite my differences with him.īut this crosses a line.
I have also written about my disagreements with some of his recent behavior, such as his decision to edit a book with William Dembski.
I have written before about the problems with Ruse's latest assertions and arguments. Of course, it was also shameless of Dembski to publish the e-mails without asking Dennett first, but we already knew he lacks both scruples and conscience.
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For Ruse to make public e-mails that were intended as part of a private correpsondence is an incredible breach of professional ethics. I say this is inexplicable because there is no indication that Dennett consented to have his private e-mails made public. How do I know this? Because Ruse inexplicably sent the entire correspondence to William Dembski. It seems they have been engaging in a bit of e-mail correspondence on the side. Michael Ruse and Daniel Dennett are two of the most prominent philosophers writing about issues related to evolution.
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