Title: Simplistic and over-burdened by reification of Science
Review: Johnson's attempt to "turn philosophy on its face" is little more than the return of a very old argument, only now with the benefit of new discoveries in cognitive-science which, we are to believe, give this disguised argument new cogency and import. Johnson's argument is based on a reification of science, where the principles derived from empirical evidence shall color our ethics, philosophy, etc. The problem is that the principles don't necessarily flow from the data. Johnson, in an effort to establish himself , has jumped, and now must hold on, whatever the truth. The book is pretentious, overbearing, and shallow, and its overarching treatment and recasting of all philosophy, from Kant to Chomsky, reeks of sophistication (in the older Greek sense, i.e., sophistry).
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