I fell in love with philosophy in high school tnx to Socrates and the idea that, when we discuss with each other, the correct reasoning leads us all to truth. After 20 years I'm more convinced than ever that this is delusional on so many levels, but can't let go of this idea.
In Guillermo Del Toro's movie, the talking cricket who lives inside Pinocchio has a Schopenhauer portrait. Strange choice. For the voice of conscience, Kant would have been the more obvious choice.
My prof of the "Philosophy of history" class used to say that philosophy always arrives when the party is over.
So, happy new year to all philosophers.
I recently went to a Conference in Italy about a German philosopher. A French scholar gave the whole talk in French. The handout was a printing of the paper. Also in French.
I equally hate and admire this level of not giving a f...
People grow ashamed of having liked Harry Potter when they were teens. Well, my first philosophy book when I was 15 was Russell's history of philosophy.
I want to get into experimental philosophy. All I need is 100 mice. Then I will let 50 of them live according to the moral law and 50 according to the utilitarian principle.
I study German philosophy, but every time I teach my intro to history of philosophy course I must admit that the French are better writers. I mean, Pascal, Voltaire, Rousseau. How can you top that?
Everytime I participate in an administrative meeting with my fellow colleague philosophers I think about Plato's idea of a government of philosophers and, boy, was he wrong.
Analytic philosophers: we do philosophy employing rigorous methods.
Also analytic philosophers: let's apply this modern label to a philosopher who lived two thousand years ago.
English speaking analytic philosophers when they regard how influential English speaking analytic philosophers are on English speaking analytic philosophers.
Philosophical stalkers.
When I was a PhD student i worked on Richard Avenarius. A God forsaken philosopher almost no one wrote about for 100yrs. I always thought "Who's gonna care about my research?" 1/x
I love to teach Kant's view on chemistry from the "Metaphysical foundation of natural science" because it's one of the fastest way to show his genius even to non philosophy students.
In German "รผbersehen" means both "seeing smth" and "not seeing smth".
All languages have many words with multiple and ambiguous meanings, but literally contradictory meanings?