This time around I'm going to write to you about a problematic approach that a person might easily think will contribute to their understanding philosophical thinkers, movements, schools, traditions, or perspectives, but which really gets in the way and leads one astray. It's one I know very well both because I have myself fallen into it in the past, as a student (by the time I was finished with graduate school, I had fortunately moved past it, and because I encounter it frequently with my own interlocutors interested in philosophy. Sometimes these can be students enrolled in my academic or open enrollment classes.
Sometimes these can be students enrolled in my academic or open enrollment classes. Other times they might be people attending a talk, workshop, or event that I'm leading.