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Drebenized: Philosophy and garbage Drebenized I recently picked up a remaindered copy of Future Pasts: The Analytic Tradition in Twentieth-Century Philosophy, ed. J. Floyd S. Shieh (Oxford University Press, 2001), an interesting collection of essays in honor of the late Burton Dreben, a philosopher at Harvard whose influence far outstripped his actual publications. Dreben taught for more than three decades at Harvard during a time when it reigned supreme as the preeminent philosophy department in the United States, and perhaps the English-speaking world: this was the department of Quine, Raw