The Great Leiter, who once bestrode the philosophy blogosphere as a Colossus, now reduced to SPEP-bashing to deflect from his crumbling mainstream support. Some points:
1. Many of the most trenchant critics of the PGR, such as Bharath Vallabha, Jessica Wilson, Brian Weatherson, Gregory Wheeler, David Velleman, Zachary Ernst, and Richard Heck have never been SPEP members.
2. Unless I'm mistaken, neither are Jonathan Schaffer, David Chalmers, Susanna Siegel, Jason Stanley and the other 26 members of the PGR Advisory Board who asked Leiter to step down.
3. So what we see here is a desperate attempt at wagon-circling: "When in trouble with my base, bash SPEP."
4. This is not to deny that I am a SPEP member or that I have previously called Leiter out on his puerile vendetta against SPEP, as here, where he flails about before taking refuge where many a sophomore has before him, in his Right To An Opinion (tm).
4. See also.
5. Here too.
6. Okay, last one, for now.
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