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Ratiocination

Complication


Contemporary analytic philosophy has its bugbears. But I think we do better than most academic disciplines when it comes to the complication fetish humorously described here.

A Nice Line


NDPR regularly reviews the latest and (sometimes) greatest books in philosophy. Recent gems include Michael Kremer's devastating takedown of a new translation of The Foundations of Arithmetic and this line from Gerald Lang:

It is easy, in truth, to make anything look silly if we use upper-case lettering in a certain way... Murder is an injustice, and morality holds it to be seriously wrong. Do we refrain from murdering people, then, because Morality Strongly Condemns Murder?