(Williams, 2021)
In “Can Philosophers Change Their Minds” Robert Hanna argues that as many as 99% of all contemporary professional academic philosophers, after they’ve completed their PhD dissertations, as much as 99% of the time don’t read anything outside their AOS, as much as 99% of the time don’t work on anything outside their AOS, and as much as 99% of the time don’t change their minds about their fundamental philosophical beliefs and commitments—especially their worldview and their metaphilosophy—for the rest of their philosophical lives. Correspondingly, he concludes that all living philosophers, whether inside professional academic philosophy or outside professional academic philosophy, not only can but also ought to change their minds, or at least ought seriously to consider changing their minds, at least once in their philosophical lives, about their fundamental philosophical beliefs and commitments, especially including their worldview or their metaphilosophy, for the sake of real philosophy.
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