"His disciple cried impetuously 'but I believe in your cause and consider it so strong that I shall say everything, everything that I still have in my mind against it.'" The Gay Science 106According to Heidegger, the scientific worldview represents...
I ran into my favorite former student today, and the meeting reminded me of a topic I've been thinking about for some time. I have posted numerous pro-Carnap views on this blog, but while one might thus have correctly guessed that I take Carnap's...
Most people like to think of themselves as flexible and willing to change their minds in response to new evidence. However, we of course notice that others are very stubborn, and there's some psychological literature suggesting that people in general...
Socrates is generally presented in Plato's dialogues as being better at some skills than self-styled experts. He is presented as being superior at rhetoric, for example, and at debate for the sake of debate. There is also indication that these are...
