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The Slightest Philosophy: Table of Contents
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Thursday, July 17, 2008. What Can Be Realism. What Realism Can’t Be. 8220;Direct” Realism: Straw Man, Red Herring. The Irrelevance of Representationalism. The Same Waking that Dreaming. Are You on the Bus? The Case of the Bent Oar. Direct vs. Indirect. Is Reality Socially Constructed? One Truth or Many? Reference and the Oval Coin. Peirce and Turkey Ham. A Kantian Blind Alley. Kant in a Vat. You Can’t Get There From Here. Abducted by Disjunctive Aliens. How Much is Enough Justification? See it on Amazon.
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The Slightest Philosophy: Chapter 1
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Monday, July 14, 2008. What Realism Can Be. 8220;Naive Realism is the view of the great mass of civilized humanity,” explained Oswald Kulpe’s 1895 Introduction to Philosophy. 8220;Naïve realism” is, as Ernst Mach put it in 1886, “The philosophical point of view of the average man.” Dickinson Miller, in his 1908 article “Naive Realism: What is It? 8221; expressed it similarly: “By naive realism we mean the attitude of the ordinary mind towards the external world.”. It would be hard to find a better defini...
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The Slightest Philosophy: Appendix
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Sunday, July 13, 2008. Prospective second ed.). Citing a Problematic Tradition. 8220;The senses do not comprehend the foreign object, but only their own impressions.”. 8220;We no longer know what things are in truth; for nothing comes to us except falsified and altered by our senses.”. Just as a man who does not know Socrates, seeing his portrait, cannot say that it resembles him.”. 8220;Faith alone can convince us that bodies actually exist.”. 8220;With all my heart, retain the word matter,. 8220;You ta...
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The Slightest Philosophy: November 2007
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Tuesday, November 6, 2007. Abductivist Refutation of Skepticism. A Refutation of Skepticism via Inference to the Best Explanation. Here’s an infallibilist. 1) Really knowing anything requires an infallible, perfect kind of certainty. 2) This requires that no mistake is even possible. 3) It seems that for us fallible creatures, perhaps this is never the case. 4) Therefore, it seems that we know nothing at all. Here’s a problem: Are propositions 1-4 themselves infallibly certain? Once we realize that infal...
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The Slightest Philosophy: Reviews
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Thursday, July 17, 2008. Is an amazing, liberating book that deserves a wide audience. Quee Nelson is a realist in both senses of the term. With verve and wit that cannot be found within Philosophy departments, and with sound learning as well, she has made stone kicking both intellectually respectable and fun.” —Frederick C. Crews, editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature,. Author of Postmodern Pooh, Unauthorized Freud,. And Follies of the Wise. 8220;I agree about The Slightest Philosophy.
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The Slightest Philosophy: Introduction
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008. We need to think of reason not as a truth-tracking faculty but as a social practice. The notion of “accurate representation” is simply an automatic and empty compliment which we pay to those beliefs which are successful in helping us to do what we want to do. There is no enclosing wall called “the Real.” There is nothing outside language to which language attempts to become adequate. We cannot find a skyhook which lifts us out of mere coherence—mere agreement—to someth...Committed...
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The Slightest Philosophy: July 2008
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Thursday, July 17, 2008. Is an amazing, liberating book that deserves a wide audience. Quee Nelson is a realist in both senses of the term. With verve and wit that cannot be found within Philosophy departments, and with sound learning as well, she has made stone kicking both intellectually respectable and fun.” —Frederick C. Crews, editor of The Norton Anthology of American Literature,. Author of Postmodern Pooh, Unauthorized Freud,. And Follies of the Wise. 8220;I agree about The Slightest Philosophy.
