Previous to his gender stance he was a known but not exceptional academic.
It is very important to underline and precise that Peterson did not make a "gender stance" at all...His remark which goes around the world was about free speech and the insane Trudeau who want to rule language by law...His rant has nothing to do with gender choices of people...By the way have you read "maps of meanings" his main book ? I dont know but for me no ordinary academic write a so deep book...He is not Einstein, Darwin or Freud or Grothendieck for sure but he is not an ordinary academic... Read his book and come back to speak...i read it 12 years ago... 😁😊
if a philosopher comes up with an "answer"
Philosophy importance is not about answers, it is about value, meanings and questions...
The way we question ourself and everything else matter more than technological answers...Sorry....
Even philosophers debate the death of philosophy and whether it has any meaning let alone value in a world where life’s mysteries are one by one decoded and demystified.
The so called " death of philosophy" emerge way after the Renaissance and after the Romantic Era in the midst of materialism and mechanistic night...Blake called that the industrial age or The "tree of death", the era of Urizen...
All that is described in a more easy to understand way in another great poet and also scientist Goethe in his Faust...
Then there is no philosophy death, but instead the complete domination of materialism... The disconnection between science and philosophy was pushed by the technological hubris of occidental empire domination... Some philosophers reacted against this nominalism which success is at the source of modern physical science, Charles Sanders Peirce one of the greatest scientist and philosopher in America for example and Husserl in Europe and many others...
The "life’s mysteries" are not one by one decoded each day, like an engine or a mechanistic set of riddles, in the opposite, the area of knowledge grow like a surface and the mysteries increase like a volume... The universe is boring and understood "more" each day only by the transhumanist sect who will let the machine do the mind work and park human in box where they "will own nothing and be happy" ....
What is understood better each day is that the cosmos is a more vast mystery than we ever dream to think it was...Our little new answers are dwarved by the new questions...
Only sleepwalkers take technology at face value, knowledge is not science, and science is not technology...
Knowledge is an art and an ethic and a way to conduct our life and our body and senses among the phenomena to understand them without destroying them...It encompasses science and technology not the reverse...
Goethe is the last great artist, scientist, and poet, he does not wrote philosophy in a a way a university professor wrote it, like Hegel was, but the legacy of Goethe is urgently needed in transhumanist era more than any other philosopher...
Anyway the good news save for the transhumanist sleepwalker is materialism is dead...Alas! A.I. is not a creature of materialism, it is a creature of our imagination, and the risk is that we may put ourself captive in the box of our limited imagination under the domination of a ghost manipulated by who?...