Month: May 2013
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‘Living’ philosophy (I): ‘Field philosophy’
If one were so inclined, one could write an alternative history of American philosophy. Chiefly, that history would recount, beginning with American pragmatists such as Dewey and William James, its rise during the period when serious magazines were still financially viable, reaching its high-water mark with such works as Walter Lippmann’s defense of natural law…
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What Dancy’s Late Late Show appearance has to say about the philosopher’s disappearance
On April 1, 2010, the professional philosopher Jonathan Dancy, who happens to be the father-in-law of Claire Danes, appeared on the Late Late Show to speak with Craig Ferguson about moral philosophy in general and about moral particularism more specifically. Let it be said from the first that I am quite sympathetic to Dancy’s view…
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How the art of philosophical inquiry leads to self-knowledge: A schema
A philosophical inquiry aims at a desideratum. That desideratum is announced or implied in the statement: ‘This is it!’ The ‘this is it’ is the conclusion of the inquiry and the end of the philosophical conversation. The diagram below seeks to shed some light on this moment of self-knowledge. What distinguishes self-knowledge from other modes…
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Spiritual Exercise – 4. Measure
Measured speech is neither pithy (witticism) nor voluminous (garrulity). Measured speech is the expression of, or accompaniment to, the virtue of temperance. Let us transform ourselves. Ask yourself, Do I tend to blurt things out? Why is that? Why can’t I seem to hold my tongue? I think I have to ‘say my piece,’ but do…
Andrew Taggart, Ph.D. 
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