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“To talk of rational beings apart from man is as if we attempted to talk of heavy beings apart from bodies.”
― The Basis of Morality
― The Basis of Morality
“The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.”
― The Critique of Pure Reason
― The Critique of Pure Reason
“If universal building codes and protections for children with pre-existing conditions can be presented as assaults on American values and the rule of law - and reported upon as such in major media that turn a promise of balance into an excuse for airing nonsense - then the debate has been dumbed down to such an extent that the right has already won, no matter what the result on election day.”
― The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism
― The "S" Word: A Short History of an American Tradition...Socialism
“In the philosophy of mind - as, indeed, in more important matters - [the twentieth century] has been a less than fully satisfactory century. We pretty much wasted the first half, so it seems to me, in a neurotic and obsessive preoccupation with refuting Cartesian skepticism about other minds. In the event, it didn't matter that the skeptics weren't refuted since there turned out not to be any. The only philosophers who really were doubtful about the existence of other minds were relentless anti-Cartesians like Wittgenstein, Dewey, Ryle, Quine and Rorty, and they were equally doubtful about the existence of their own. What we got for our efforts was mostly decades of behaviorism and the persistent bad habit of trying to run epistemological or semantic arguments for metaphysical conclusions. The end of this, I fear, is still not with us.”
― The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics
― The Elm and the Expert: Mentalese and Its Semantics
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