In his Happiness, Death, and the Remainder of Life, Jonathan Lear reckons with what, it seems, is a long-standing unease … More
Tag: philosophy
276. (Sebastian Rödl )
It’s one thing to say, as a general principle of literary art, that a work must get within its judgments … More
237. (Irad Kimhi)
I was alerted to Irad Kimhi’s Thinking and Being before its publication by way of a note in Sebastian Rödl’s … More
212. (Sebastian Rödl )
Sebastian Rödl is not in this post, but he is behind it. It takes off from his Categories of the Temporal, and contains … More
203. (Aristotle)
Aristotle begins his Art of Rhetoric How do we reason in general about what is possible, probable, not necessary; he … More
190. (Sebastian Rödl)
Close kin in to his near-simultaneous monograph Self- Consciousness, Sebastian Rödl’s Categories of the Temporal: An Inquiry into the Forms of the Finite Intellect (publ. … More
167. (Henry James)
The other day, I wrote a post on Henry James that now seems extraordinarily muddled. I didn’t recognize the puzzle … More
165. (Henry James)
The post below I now see is muddled. Please see post 167 for a clearer statement. I detect in Nelson … More
156. (Hannah Ginsborg)
My limited experience reading contemporary philosophers has convinced me that Wittgenstein, Kant, and Aristotle need to be read alongside one … More
153. (Charles Sanders Peirce)
He has almost no interest in the field of aesthetics, and though his theory of semiotics might be thought most … More
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