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We need to make a distinction between the argument from doubt and his work, specifically his work in medicine, optics, and physics. I don't think he n...

First, this list was prefaced by my saying: The history of philosophy is not the biography of philosophers and their marital status. Midgley begins by...

Moral bivalence is immoral. It is antithetical to the dialectic of moral deliberation.

I agree, They thought they were revolutionizing philosophy - making a new start. So they were aware they had a history. Yes, a new start. A break with...

You have not understood what I said. That is my point. Leontiskos said in response to me pointing to Aristotle: As I said to him: Midgley's "return" w...

As agreed, the check is in the mail.

I don't think so. I like to think that there are others reading but not commenting. I think of the written exchange as only part of it. I do occasiona...

A well-known opinion, although not as well-known as you might expect, is certainly a useful measure against the prevailing academic opinions of her ti...

What do you find here that cannot be found in Aristotle?

There may be some who feel this way, but this does not obviate the fact that there are Evangelical Christians who see him as a messiah in a battle tha...

A quick look at his list of publications led me to suspect that he knows Caton. Looking a little further I found on the publisher's blurb for "From Sc...

I don't think they ask WWJD because they think they know what Trump has done, will do, and what has been done to him. While they may not regard him as...

There are several books and articles that address this. Years ago I read Hiram Caton's "The Origin of Subjectivity", which led me to look past the sta...

And yet there is in the history of philosophy many examples. The most infamous in Western Philosophy is Christianity's appropriation of Plato, but I s...

This really is quite strange. I am not defending or backing away from defending Descartes. I am defending an interpretation that is at odds with the s...

And yet when I question the received interpretation you assume this is because I am fond of Descartes and upset, as it all of this is personal. Part o...

Right. And she perpetuates it. Descartes was following a common meditative and contemplative practice in both the East and West. In both the same ques...

Not particularly. I am fond of interpreting texts. He plays an important role in the history of philosophy and is worthy of careful reading. Like othe...

What is true is what is the case. There are things that are logically possible but not true. What leads you to say this? He does say: (2.224) But this...

What he actually wrote is, as quoted earlier: (Discourse Part 4)

As far as I am concerned Descartes is not in need of any defense from me. He has done quite well on his own. I am not interested in defending him but ...

I have provided evidence in support of my claim that you got him wrong. But you just skip over that as if it is just a game you don't want to play. He...

I will try again. You said; An object does not refer to a variable. A variable can be used, however, to refer to an object. The term 'object' is not a...

Of course he could! But you being wrong about him is still wrong.

He is not explaining epistemology. He is saying that logic is a transcendental condition for epistemology. It is, rather, according to your misreprese...

In the Symposium Socrates says: At first it may seem that this contradicts what he says in the Apology where he claims to know nothing beautiful and g...

He was. But since he did so using their language it may seem as though he is in agreement with them. A couple of remarks from Wittgenstein: Do I want ...

She. My proof-reader took the day off. I should fire my proof-reader. It is no more necessary for him to conclude that others exist than it is for a c...

AMEN. But I still ain't placing any bets.

My concern is that it advocates for a one size fits all standard - a mature person will marry. There are various reasons why someone does not marry, m...

Based on the link to Midgley's Rings and Books, this does not appear to be advice she follows. I recommend Pierre Hadot's "Philosophy as a Way of Life...

It is what I said, explicitly and clearly: If in your reading it got muddled that your difficulty. It is no more necessary for him to conclude that ot...

I also disagree with her emphasis on marriage. Although some are well suited to marriage and children, others are not. Her associating bachelorhood wi...

Grandma Mary believes that those who are not married lack maturity, that they, like Plato, are adolescents. That by not leading what she regards as a ...

Descartes wrote of, to and for a community of people past present and future. A community of philosophers and thinkers . But also for humans of lesser...

Are the simply objects that make up the substance of the world knowable? Wittgenstein says: (2.0123) He continues: (2.01231) And: (2.0124) Can we know...

Here is Bloom's translation of that passage: And Horan's: The philosopher loves any learning that discloses or reveals something of that being which a...

Descartes wrote under conditions of persecution that constrained him in ways that do not apply to contemporary thinkers in places where free speech is...

From the Second Meditation: It is not that thinking or doing philosophy is a necessary condition for existing, it is that existing is a necessary cond...

He also says in this passage "this is how it all seems to me". Why would he say that it seems this way to him if he knows it is this way? In the Apolo...

You could start a reading group here, or less formally, post questions and comments as you read. You will get a lot of different answers which will le...

A word of advice. Find a good translation. It really makes a difference. This one is pretty good and is available free: https://www.platonicfoundation...

I think she is on the right track in not treating philosophy as the activity of disembodied minds, but it does not seem to occur to her that being unm...

He is saying something about conceptual notation, but it is important to understand why formal concepts are represented as variables and proper concep...

I think some clarification regarding the term 'object' might be helpful. At first I was puzzled because he used 'object' to refer both the simple and ...

The proposition "the apple is on the table" is a picture of the apple on the table. The logical relation of the model to the car? It is a representati...

First, we do not only picture facts to ourselves. Second, even if we did that would not be a private language unless no one else could understand it a...

That depends on the medium of representation, whether what is being pictured is intended to communicate something to someone else, and what it is that...

I don't see the problem. A proposition is a picture. A picture that makes use of both a visual and a propositional representation is still a picture. ...

'Object' is a pseudo-concept. A particular object is not. (4.1272) Right, but the issue is whether something that falls under a pseudo-concept is a ps...