TimS comments on Philosophy Needs to Trust Your Rationality Even Though It Shouldn't - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Peterdjones 30 November 2012 01:01:19PM *  8 points [-]

(Can anyone think of a similarly impressive advance made by professional philosophers, in this same time frame?)

  • Quine's attack on aprioricity and analycity.
  • Kuhn's' and Popper's philosophy of science.
  • Rawls' and Nozick's political philsophy
  • Kripkes New Metaphsycal Necessity

ETA:

  • Austin's speach act theory
  • Ryles critique of Cartesianism
  • HOT theory (various)
  • Tarski's convention T
  • Gettier's counteraxamples
  • Parfitt on personal identiy
  • Parfitt on ehtics
  • Wittgenstein's PLA
Comment author: TimS 30 November 2012 09:20:54PM 2 points [-]

Kuhn's' and Popper's philosophy of science.

Made me laugh for a second seeing those two on the same line because Popper (falsifiability) and Kuhn (Structures of Scientific Revolutions) are not particularly related.

Comment author: Peterdjones 30 November 2012 11:05:28PM 1 point [-]

Not at all. i should probably have put them on separate lines.

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