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Ideas for 'The Evolution of Logic', 'Frege on Apriority' and 'Rationality and Virtue'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 4. Later European Philosophy / c. Eighteenth century philosophy

13466	We are all post-Kantians, because he set the current agenda for philosophy [Hart,WD]
	Full Idea: We are all post-Kantians, ...because Kant set an agenda for philosophy that we are still working through.
	From: William D. Hart (The Evolution of Logic [2010], 2)
	A reaction: Hart says that the main agenda is set by Kant's desire to defend the principle of sufficient reason against Hume's attack on causation. I would take it more generally to be the assessment of metaphysics, and of a priori knowledge.

1. Philosophy / D. Nature of Philosophy / 5. Aims of Philosophy / d. Philosophy as puzzles

13477	The problems are the monuments of philosophy [Hart,WD]
	Full Idea: The real monuments of philosophy are its problems.
	From: William D. Hart (The Evolution of Logic [2010], 2)
	A reaction: Presumably he means '....rather than its solutions'. No other subject would be very happy with that sort of claim. Compare Idea 8243. A complaint against analytic philosophy is that it has achieved no consensus at all.

1. Philosophy / F. Analytic Philosophy / 6. Logical Analysis

13515	To study abstract problems, some knowledge of set theory is essential [Hart,WD]
	Full Idea: By now, no education in abstract pursuits is adequate without some familiarity with sets.
	From: William D. Hart (The Evolution of Logic [2010], 10)
	A reaction: A heart-sinking observation for those who aspire to study metaphysics and modality. The question is, what will count as 'some' familiarity? Are only professional logicians now allowed to be proper philosophers?