Tag: Conceptions

• May 8, 2012

  Acting contrary to nature or living according to nature? (I)

  I Somewhere near the passage to modernity, the philosophical tree sprouted some branches and grew dead. How many branches, pray, before it breathed its final breath? The contemporary philosopher Harry Frankfurt holds up his fingers, counts two, and then shades in a third. The first branch is epistemology which, he says, is concerned with “what…
• February 15, 2012

  On 2 visions of philosophy

  The following is a commentary on David E. Cooper, “Visions of Philosophy,” Conceptions of Philosophy, ed. Anthony O’Hear, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. pp. 1-14. Due to copyright restrictions, I can’t include a copy of the paper below. As insufficient recompense, I offer running commentary. The latter tracks the sections in Cooper’s paper but also…