Combining Philosophers
Ideas for Empedocles, Gilbert Harman and Willard Quine
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1. Philosophy / A. Wisdom / 3. Wisdom Deflated
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Inspiration and social improvement need wisdom, but not professional philosophy [Quine]
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1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 6. Hopes for Philosophy
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For a good theory of the world, we must focus on our flabby foundational vocabulary [Quine]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 1. Nature of Metaphysics
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Quinean metaphysics just lists the beings, which is a domain with no internal structure [Schaffer,J on Quine]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 3. Metaphysical Systems
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Any statement can be held true if we make enough adjustment to the rest of the system [Quine]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science
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Quine rejects Carnap's view that science and philosophy are distinct [Quine, by Boulter]
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Philosophy is largely concerned with finding the minimum that science could get by with [Quine]
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Quine's naturalistic and empirical view is based entirely on first-order logic and set theory [Quine, by Mautner]
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1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual
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Enquiry needs a conceptual scheme, so we should retain the best available [Quine]
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We aren't stuck with our native conceptual scheme; we can gradually change it [Quine]
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1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 6. Logical Analysis
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If if time is money then if time is not money then time is money then if if if time is not money... [Quine]
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Logicians don't paraphrase logic into language, because they think in the symbolic language [Quine]
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1. Philosophy / G. Scientific Philosophy / 3. Scientism
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Philosophy is continuous with science, and has no external vantage point [Quine]
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