“There is relatively little written about sexual orientation in analytic philosophy journals. However, there is a ton of relevant work on sexual orientation in non-analytic or non-philosophy journals. Philosophers, as Eric Schwitzgebel has pointed out, don’t like to cite. Citation rates in philosophy are very low. Combine this with the fact that there’s a lot of social philosophy that has existed prior to the social turn, and we have a recipe for philosophical Columbusing—the act of pretending to discover (or mistakenly thinking that one has discovered) a philosophical insight that has already existed.”
– Kevin Richardson, The Social Turn in Analytic Philosophy: Promises and Perils
Suggested citation: Fugard, A. (2025, February 22). Philosophical Columbusing [blog post]. https://andifugard.info/philosophical-columbusing/
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