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4Philosophy, Progress, and IdentityIn Russell Blackford & Damien Broderick (eds.), Philosophy's Future, Wiley. 2017-04-27.Philosophy, as I use it here, is a conversation, one stretching back through various canonical European and Ancient Greek texts at least to Thales. Has this conversation progressed? The main objection to philosophy's having a linear progression is dissensus – the fact that philosophers all disagree but still accept each other as peers. In this chapter, I argue that we should conceive of philosophy as being capable of a branching kind of progression: philosophy progresses when it gives us more wa…Read more
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1John Locke, Some Thoughts Concerning Education and Of the Conduct of the Understanding Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 17 (5): 346-347. 1997.
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Areas of Interest
Metaphilosophy |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |
African/Africana Philosophy |