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Tag Archives: local knowledge
On Euthyphro’s Frustration (An Occasional Philosophical Note #1)
Note: with this post I am beginning a series of shorter posts to lay out specific foundational issues illustrated in basic philosophical texts which, for my purposes, I will take at face value (i.e., I am not “deconstructing” them or … Continue reading
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Tagged Clifford Geertz, Euthyphro, local knowledge, Paul Feyerabend, Plato, pragmatism, relativism, Socrates, The Euthyphro, Theory of Forms
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What Should Philosophy Do? (Part 3)
In the first two installments of this trilogy, our point of departure being John Horgan’s series on Scientific American, we offered a tentative response to the questions posed both by his title (“What Is Philosophy’s Point?”) and by ours. Before … Continue reading
Lost Generation Philosopher 