“There would not have been thought to be a problem about the nature of reason had our race confined itself to pointing out particular states of affairs — warning of cliffs and rain, celebrating individual births and deaths. But poetry speaks of man, birth, and death as such, and mathematics prides itself on overlooking individual details.”
– Richard Rorty, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature
Originally appeared on Philosophy Bits Read More
This is Part 4 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 3 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 2 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In Part 1...
This is Part 1 of a 4-part series on the academic, and specifically philosophical study of disagreement. In this series...
When engaging with poetry, readers will often ask what a particular poem means. The implicit assumption, of course, is that...
2024.10.16 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Blake Roeber, Political Humility: The Limits of Knowledge in...
2024.10.15 : View this Review Online | View Recent NDPR Reviews Tatjana Višak, Capacity for Welfare Across Species, Oxford University...
“What afflicts literature, more than book banning, is this rapid loss of the ability to read for deeper meanings, to...
