The Philosophers’ Menu 4 May 2010 The Philosophers’ Menu Presuppositions. Kantelope Assorted carnaps Pareto soup Hart-boyled eggs with a rescher of bacon Major Premises Jugged hare, with milled popper Skinnered peacocke, with nashed paretos Plato’ the Day Humeburger, with gibbard gravy Frankfurts and schauer kraut Bass van frassen [sic] Nagels and lockes Frege legs with russell sprouts Roast pigou, thoreauly dunn Fried (on nozick teflon) scanlons and lukes Just Deserts Julianned annanas Parfiteroles Ice cream cohen—jerry, joshua, or jonathan Candied geaches and pears Strawsonberry short cake Liquiddities Mineral walzer Perryier Wittgenstein of beer McGinn and tonic Copp of tea Brandty [From an unrecorded source, communicated but disavowed by Gerald Dworkin] Epistemology Ethics and Moral Philosophy Humor Metaphysics Philosophy Philosophy
Philosophy On ontology and metaphysics: substance abuse 31 May 2008 I have for a long time now been very dissatisfied with the metaphysical categories bequeathed to us from Aristotle via a multitude of commentators and philosophers ranging from Boethius to Ockham to Locke to Hume to Kant. It seems to me that they are based on a prescientific notion of… Read More
Academe Did Synthese bow to Intelligent Design pressure? 14 Apr 20114 Oct 2017 A while back I published a paper in a special edition of Synthese on “Evolution and its rivals”. My paper was titled “Are Creationists Rational?” in which I argued that yes, in a bounded sense they are. I was very pleased to be invited to publish in this front rank… Read More
Accommodationism Undefining religion 15 Feb 201429 Jun 2024 [This will be a series of posts based on a book I am writing – see last post] When anthropologists began to study religions in cultures other than the European context, which itself was based upon Roman jurisprudence, they encountered a difficulty. Until this time, in the mid-nineteenth century, “religion”… Read More