I will have to say the ones who preach about god, who goes to your house and knock on your door, or going into communities when it is already converted or already know about what they are preaching.
So I suppose the least favorite ones are those who preach the same thing over and over again. If I have to pick I would say those that have a ph.d , are the least favorite, for they have learned and memorized many theories yet, they come to be unknown still.
Fodor would top my list. His philosophy is so full of holes… anyone for swiss cheese???
Haha Fodor…
I hated that AI mind course…
I can’t say I know enough about any single philosopher to warrant the emergence of the concept of hate.
Bertrand Russell - boring philosopher, arrogant bastard, philanderer, cheat, liar and all round antihero…
You guyz surely have some sense of hate.
But I have one question then.
If you can remember their names, how is it that it is your least favorite?
Or maybe I should have ask the question which philosophers do you hate the most?
Jesus 
If you think that principica mathematica wasn’t an achievement worth placing Russell with the greats, you are one who is seriously lacking in the appreciation of philosophy.
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If you can remember their names, how is it that it is your least favorite?
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Okay then… uh… all those philsophers who I can’t remember. Those were my least favorite. Is that a better answer? Is it even worth saying?
Wow, like maths. Great. Metaphysical abstraction that has nothing to do with the real world yet scientists claim it’s the language of nature. Great.
Rounder, this verges on a personal attack. I advise you not to respond to my posts if you have nothing to contribute…
timecube
Mathematics is surrounding us - it is either simple geometry, or complicated integrals, abstract notions. You use it as a car and any utensil in the house. Logic is a mathematical device. Yes, it is not explain everything in the Universe. On the contrary makes it more complicated but I’m not in a hurry.
When you good in math it gives you chills. If don’t - enjoy something else but have decency acknowledge its achievments.
Personally I don’t like Aristotle, Hegel, Kant. Don’t like people who talk too extravagant, or emotionless, or pretend that they last resort of knowledge. By the way science always throws them from their thrones.
Anybody who isn’t awed by e^(i*pi)+1=0 is dead.
I believe my least favorite philosopher is myself. But, then again, who is to say whether or not I am really a philosopher?
Hmph.
i.e. metaphysics…
That is precisely how we don’t use maths
No, maths is a logical device
Your grammar is tortured, could you kindly rephrase?
I was good at maths, but I never saw the point in it. I see the point in it now, though that doesn’t make me in awe of it like some 14 year old who has just grown tall enough to ride on the biggest rollercoasters.
London Bridge is falling down, falling down, falling down…
Diddums. Science doesn’t pass rudimentary logical tests and should be treated like any other mythology. The sooner scientists get used to this, the better.
I’ve been pondering the validity of this as of late though.
Our very biological structures are based on mathematics.
What does this mean?
As for the question:
–Given some of the discussions I get into I’ll probably have to read him again but I won’t enjoy it. The only word that comes to mind is wimpy.
–My biggest problem here is that they seem to promise so much and deliver so little. Until someone can explain an insight or something from their work that is something more than “we don’t know”, I really don’t see much point in reading them again. If you want to take that as a challenge be my guest. 
–I actually like Searle and I have learned many things from him, but I’m often struck, rightly or wrongly, by the fact that he seems himself as the defender of a kind of ‘common sense’, and yet he never quite seems to defend it clearly. Why didn’t he pursue the debate with Derrida more seriously?
I will definitely read him again.
You think you’re so funny, don’t you?
Can I change my answer to ‘Dunamis’?
I have a certain admiration for Fodor, although I grant you he doesn’t present anything close to cheddar. My least favourite is Nietzsche but not because of he himself but because of how seriously many people take him. So I suppose that isn’t a criticism of N himself.
I can sympathise with having little time for Nietzsche due to certain people’s propensity for waffling about him…