An inch deep and a mile wide …

… Why Neil deGrasse Tyson is a philistine - The Week. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

Tyson is right about one thing: Philosophy is primarily about posing questions. But he's wrong to view such questioning as a pernicious waste of time. If Socrates is to be believed, it may actually be the best way of life for a human being — and quite possibly the only way to avoid the dogmatism to which all thinking is prone, and to which Tyson himself certainly has fallen prey.