Some interesting observations here, but some of the biographical standards Journo holds Burns to are outlandish. Burns’ excellent, OUP-published biography of Ayn Rand isn’t worth reading because… Burns didn’t state how significant it would if moral realism were true?
“Professor Bigglesworth’s biography of G.E. Moore is a failure because, astonishingly, while it notes that Moore defended external world realism, it doesn’t state how significant it would be if Moore were right, because it would mean you really do have a penis!”
Some interesting observations here, but some of the biographical standards Journo holds Burns to are outlandish. Burns’ excellent, OUP-published biography of Ayn Rand isn’t worth reading because… Burns didn’t state how significant it would if moral realism were true?
“Professor Bigglesworth’s biography of G.E. Moore is a failure because, astonishingly, while it notes that Moore defended external world realism, it doesn’t state how significant it would be if Moore were right, because it would mean you really do have a penis!”
What?
It appears that you suffer from the same affliction which Burns is herein diagnosed. Did you even read the piece at all? Gosh!!