April 2012
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Comments on a couple of nonphilosophers doing some philosophy
Believe me when I say I am not one of those narrow-minded disciplinarians who believe knowledgeable people should stick to their own turf and never meddle in other people’s business. Indeed, one of my chief disappointments is that we live in a time when so few people are willing to let their attention and intellect… Continue reading
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Hume, the mind, and the world
(Reflections on Peter Kail’s Projection and Realism in Hume’s Philosophy. Oxford, 2007.) The main point of this book is to understand what Hume thinks we “project” upon the world, and what Hume thinks really does exist apart from our perceptions. In the first part, Kail shows that Hume’s account of how we come to believe… Continue reading
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