The Problem at Hand — Beginning in the 19th century the position began to take shape that theories of universal ethics were logically problematic, if not entirely empty of content. Varieties of this position have continued through the 20th and into the 21st centuries. What I mean by the term “universal ethics” is the belief [...]
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Look here. You believe something other than what you believe. See?
Posted in Ethics, Metaphilosophy, tagged Arguemntation, Ethical Theory, Ethics, Meta-ethics, Meta-philosophy, Metaphilosophy, moral theory, morality, Morals, philosophy, Rhetoric on 2009 September 29 |
Would you hand me that sprocket & a materialist dialectic?
Posted in Metaphilosophy on 2009 September 8 |
In my first post I gave an overview of the traditional subject matter of philosophy. What I would like to do now is to provide what I think is a good metaphor for the sort of activity philosophers do: the philosopher is a machinist & inventor of concepts. The philosopher, through history, starts with some idea, then identifies its flaws and fixes it, or at least improves upon it. I will follow this with a defense of why I think this is an important activity and what philosopher might do to expand the audience for philosophical thought.
The “Basic” Question
Posted in Metaphilosophy, tagged epistemology, Ethics, Metaphysics, philosophy on 2009 August 24 |
What is philosophy? — A very good question, and the central concern of a branch of thought called meta-philosophy, that is, philosophy about philosophy. While this question lacks a single and definitive answer, there are any number of quite satisfactory answers, some of which I will explain here in brief. For a great many philosophers, [...]
