I count myself among those who owe a great debt to The Concept of Mind. When it was published I was an undergraduate student of philosophy at the Gregorian University in Rome. The book was drawn to my...
Philosophy is linguistic’ may mean at least six different things.(1) The study of language is a useful philosophical tool. (2) It is the only philosophical tool. (3) Language is the only subject matte...
Philosophy is not a matter of knowledge; it is a matter of understanding, that is to say, of organizing what is known.
Virtue is indeed teachable,
In the period between Homer and Socrates most philosophers wrote in verse, and Plato, writing in the great age of Athenian tragedy and comedy, composed dramatic dialogue. Aristotle, an exact contempor...
In exile in Lampsacus, Anaxagoras made his final benefaction to humanity: the invention of the school holiday.