Huenemanniac

Getting distracted by ideas

January 2013

  • What philosophers do

    The following is an excerpt from an essay I’m working on, meant to explain to non-philosophers what it is philosophers do. Philosophy is the search for wisdom, and wisdom has two large components: what is (or “the True”), and what is valuable (or “the Good”). To be wise, you need not only to have skills… Continue reading

  • Ruh roh!

    From John McDowell, Mind and World (1994), pp. 77-78: It can seem that we must be picturing the space of reasons as an autonomous structure – autonomous in that it is constituted independently of anything specifically human, since what is specifically human is surely natural (the idea of the human is the idea of what… Continue reading

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