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Philosophers in hell, a potentially colloborative thread:
Timothy Williamson: is an envatted brain. Periodically reminded of this, only to forget it shortly afterwards.
Hilary Putnam: exiled to twin earth, forever failing to refer to the natual kinds around him.
Locke: knows the future but not the past, perpetually dreading having to answer for deeds he has forgotten on the Day of Judgement.
Also, surrounded by delicious dishes he can never eat, because whenever he approaches one, someone else mingles their labour with it.
Also, surrounded by delicious dishes he can never eat, because whenever he approaches one, someone else mingles their labour with it.
Wittgenstein: trapped in a glass bottle with a large fly. Has to write standard essays setting out answers to traditional philosophical problems.
Bertrand Russell surrounded by angry phantoms of all his lovers who demand ever more exact demonstrations of basic arithemetical propositions.
Berkeley, alone in the dark but for a single burning message: I am the LORD thy God, and I look not upon thee.
David Lewis hopping from possible world to possible world, watching the terrible fates of us all his least fortunate counterparts play out.
Kant is told that, if only he will admit (or deny!) masturbating, he will be granted access to the noumenal realm.
Hume is surrounded by the shades of his old friends, but whenever he tries to dine, converse, or play backgammon with them, they keep pestering him with philosophical questions. If he refuses to address them, they shove him into a furnace, from which the only escape...
is to read a whole volume of scholastic metaphysics.
Alternatively, Socrates is surrounded by superior philosophers whom he can't pull up on anything. Whenever he tries to make an intervention, they reply 'No, Socrates' and continue.
Plato's corner of hell is run by poets, and no one there knows any geometry.
This could work for all to many! Aristotle comes to mind. I think Nietzsche is forced specifically into the role of devout Lutheran spinster. https://twitter.com/Ljiljana1972/status/1199716411519754247?s=20
Expanding on the Descartes one: I think he gets all the way to Meditation IV, but when he pulls out God not being a deceiver, the evil demon replies 'you're in hell nerd, God put you in my care and I definitely am a deceiver'. He then wipes D's memory. https://twitter.com/johnschwenkler/status/1199714129583517697?s=20
Breaking thread because I don't know how to untag Elle: https://twitter.com/s_r_tarnmoor/status/1200049500590620672?s=20
I think this is my favourite Schopenhauer offering so far https://twitter.com/th3v0t4ry/status/1200107839374733313?s=20
Edmund Gettier gets stuck in every counter-example to every analysis of knowledge ever offered.
Robert Nozick is kept in an experience machine, which simulates an overbearingly bueraucratic socialist government.
John Rawls has to persuade a collection of Jihadis, tankies, and Sedevacantist groypers to agree on a social order.
Robert Filmer lives in a direct democracy, in which only women are enfranchised.
Further specificity re Filmer: https://twitter.com/andrew_lilico/status/1227655322652811264?s=20
Put otherwise, on Green https://twitter.com/CantusLaudanum/status/1269669280423034880?s=20
