Twenty philosophers
Oct 8, 2013 5:47:17 GMT -5
Post by Deleted on Oct 8, 2013 5:47:17 GMT -5
Professor Mulligan - whatever you do don't call him "Kevin" - occupies the post of Professor of Analytic Philosophy at the University of Geneva, and he thinks we should know more about a book entitled "The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics" written by Mr. A.W. Moore. It is he says "an examination of the meta-metaphysics [sic - should not that read "the meta-metaphysicses"?] of twenty philosophers. A chapter each is allotted to Descartes, David Lewis [never heard of him], Deleuze, Spinoza, Leibniz, Hume, Kant, Fichte, Hegel, Frege, Carnap, Quine [how I hated him when I was a student!], Dummett [never heard of him either], Nietzsche [not a philosopher I think], Bergson, Husserl, Heidegger, Collingwood, Derrida [not a systematic philosopher], and Widdlestein (to whom in fact two are devoted). So what about Schelling eh eh?
Moore, reports Mr. Mulligan, asks three central meta-metaphysical questions:
1) The Transcendence Question: can we make sense of "transcendent things"? [It would be necessary I would think to explain the meanings of "make sense," "transcendent," and "thing."]
2) The Novelty Question: can we make sense of things in radically new ways? [Explain "radically" - and way!] and
3) The Creativity Question: can we be creative in our "sense-making," perhaps in a way that admits of no "distinction" between being "right" or "wrong," or are we "limited" to "looking for" the sense that things "already" make? [I have supplied quotation marks for a few of the professor's words that urgently require definition.]
And then Mulligan tells us that Moore tells us that Wittgenstein's Tractatus tells us that "the limits of logic are the limits of the world." Silly or not?
Anyway I have just now found Moore's book on the inter-network so will be able to have a good read of it. And is any member aware of Deleuze's "Capitalisme et Schizophrénie"? It "bristles with weird and wonderful coinages" gushes Professor Mulligan.
Moore, reports Mr. Mulligan, asks three central meta-metaphysical questions:
1) The Transcendence Question: can we make sense of "transcendent things"? [It would be necessary I would think to explain the meanings of "make sense," "transcendent," and "thing."]
2) The Novelty Question: can we make sense of things in radically new ways? [Explain "radically" - and way!] and
3) The Creativity Question: can we be creative in our "sense-making," perhaps in a way that admits of no "distinction" between being "right" or "wrong," or are we "limited" to "looking for" the sense that things "already" make? [I have supplied quotation marks for a few of the professor's words that urgently require definition.]
And then Mulligan tells us that Moore tells us that Wittgenstein's Tractatus tells us that "the limits of logic are the limits of the world." Silly or not?
Anyway I have just now found Moore's book on the inter-network so will be able to have a good read of it. And is any member aware of Deleuze's "Capitalisme et Schizophrénie"? It "bristles with weird and wonderful coinages" gushes Professor Mulligan.