Monthly Archives: January 2011

philosophy and pedagogy

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

In the comments to my previous post on clarity, a number of good points were made, especially about the relevance of teaching and teachers. It seems to me that we need to emphasize more seriously the relationship between philosophy and … Continue reading →

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On Clarity

Posted on January 24, 2011 by

When I first heard Brian Eno’s album Another Green World I found the rhythms and musical textures so odd and disconcerting that I felt like jumping from my friend’s car. In time, however, this became one of my favorite albums, … Continue reading →

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paradox of expressibility

Posted on January 10, 2011 by

The paradox of expressibility is quite simple – it involves saying what cannot be said. For Priest, much of twentieth-century philosophy, and especially the best of twentieth-century philosophy, the philosophy and philosophers that have truly plumbed the depths and limits … Continue reading →

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the nondenumerable

Posted on January 9, 2011 by

The work of Graham Priest and Gilles Deleuze (and Félix Guattari) converge in significant ways on the concept of the nondenumerable. Turning to Priest first, and to his Beyond the Limits of Thought especially, one finds in this book an … Continue reading →

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4 minute mile

Posted on January 4, 2011 by

In the first paragraph of his Beyond the Limits of Thought, Graham Priest notes that we have long speculated about limits, limits that may be unknown but are known to be there nonetheless. ‘For example,’ Priest claims, ‘we can only … Continue reading →

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Geology and Second Nature

Posted on January 2, 2011 by

In Mind and World McDowell describes Gareth Evans’s ‘master thought’ as follows: Frege’s notion of sense, which Frege introduces in terms of modes of presentation, can accommodate the sorts of connection between thinkers and particular objects that have been recognized … Continue reading →

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