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Is “Supports” Intelligible? | Appeared-to-Blogly
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January 12, 2015. Is “Supports” Intelligible? 8212; camcintosh @ 4:27 pm. Daniel Howard-Snyder will have none of this. In response to Craig, he writes:. Craig’s use of supports has no precedence in the English language. Suppose there is some. Why should we infer that, therefore,. And similarly in his review. Is the supports claim Craig and Hasker make really as unintelligible as Howard-Snyder thinks? 1 The Mountain and the Peak. 2 The Circle and the Semi-Circles. Draw a circle. Now draw a partitionin...
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What is Philosophy? | Appeared-to-Blogly
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May 6, 2015. 8212; camcintosh @ 12:10 pm. 8220; An Omnibus of Definitions from Prominent Philosophers. 8221; Very cool collection excerpted from the introduction of David Edmonds and Nigel Warburton,. Oxford, 2010). Were these solicited by the authors? If they were found in publications, I wish they had provided citations. I like A. W. Moore’s answer. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Think: Just Do It.
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Books of 2014 | Appeared-to-Blogly
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December 31, 2014. 8212; camcintosh @ 2:56 pm. Per the good idea of my pal Paul Gould. Last year I inaugurated. The posting of an annual book log: a log of all the books I manage to wade through from cover to cover over the year. Here is my 2014 book log:. Paradoxes from A to Z. Routledge, 3rd ed., 2012). A History of Philosophy Vol. I: Greece and Rome – From the Pre-Socratics to Plotinus. A History of Philosophy Vol. II: Medieval Philosophy – From Augustine to Duns Scotus. Doubleday, ed. 1993). Quantity...
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McTaggart Anecdotes | Appeared-to-Blogly
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February 1, 2015. 8212; camcintosh @ 3:35 pm. The other day my wife confused McTaggart (the philosopher) with Mick Jagger (the singer). I thought that was too cute. In belated honor of the former’s death on January 18, 1925, here are some amusing anecdotes picked from the biographical sketch prefacing J. McT. Ellis McTaggart,. St Augustine’s Press, 1934. Rep. 1996), including an ingenious way to protest the Super Bowl:. Untidiness, absorption in philosophy and sensitivity, augured an unhappy life there&#...
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Would that Times of Refreshing May Come | Appeared-to-Blogly
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December 2, 2014. Would that Times of Refreshing May Come. 8212; camcintosh @ 7:00 pm. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). 1 Comment ». Reblogged this on The Unemployed Philosopher's Blog. 8212; December 13, 2014 @ 9:49 pm. Feed for comments on this post. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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Double Standards | Appeared-to-Blogly
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March 5, 2015. 8212; camcintosh @ 4:20 pm. Helen de Cruz is conducting a series of interviews with “academic philosophers about their religious practices.” Her first interviewee is Marcus Arvan. In response to the question “The majority of philosophers are atheists, and it’s not uncommon for philosophers to regard religion as quaint, epistemically defective or worse. What has been your experience in the philosophical community when you discuss these matters? 8221; Arvan had this to say:. These, at any ra...
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Is it Wrong to Kill Awkward People? | Appeared-to-Blogly
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April 13, 2015. Is it Wrong to Kill Awkward People? 8212; camcintosh @ 12:55 pm. I explained why the answer is “no” last week at the Cornell philosophy dept. workshop. But I admit that the title is a bait-and-switch. The presentation is an extension (of sorts) of the Workshop talk I gave. Almost exactly one year earlier. Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window). Click to email (Opens in new window). Click to share on Google (Opens in new window). Share on Facebook (Opens in new window). Post was n...
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Books of 2013 | Appeared-to-Blogly
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December 24, 2013. 8212; camcintosh @ 1:23 pm. Last year my friend Paul Gould mentioned. That he keeps an annual book log of what he’s traversed over the year. I thought that was a good idea, being a useful way to recall major checkpoints along one’s intellectual journey. Excluding vague cases (did I finish that? Here’s my 2013 log:. Fabrice Correia and Benjamin Schneider (eds.),. Metaphysical Grounding: Understanding the Structure of Reality. Joseph Ellis, His Excellency: George Washington. Cornelius Pl...
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Why do Philosophy of Religion? | Appeared-to-Blogly
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February 18, 2015. Why do Philosophy of Religion? 8212; camcintosh @ 5:17 pm. It’s hard for me to shake the impression that many professional philosophers aren’t satisfied with their four years of high school, and so view the profession of philosophy as an indefinite extension of that period of adolescence. There’s the popular crowd. Philosophers. This is a common subtext at gossip blogs like NewApps and Leiter Reports, which act as playgrounds for the philosophoney showoffs and bullies. To them and to t...
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Juicy Quote IX | Appeared-to-Blogly
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November 12, 2014. Filed under: Juicy Quotes. 8212; camcintosh @ 7:16 pm. Ballade of a Poor Book-Lover. Though in its stern vagaries Fate. A poor book-lover me decreed,. Perchance mine is a happy state. The books I buy I like to read:. To me dear friends they are indeed,. But, hoew’er enviously I sigh,. Of other take I little heed. The books I read I like to buy. My depth of purse is not so great. Nor yet my bibliophilic greed,. That merely buying doth elate:. The books I buy I like to read:. Address nev...
