“I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.” ThinkingKnowsWorldProblemRememberExistenceBoysMoralityStonesPhilosophicalTeenagerTypicalIdenticalObjectivityExistence Of God Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“The role of metaphysics in relation to other disciplines, whether philosophical or not and including the natural sciences, is thus a foundational role. Lack of clarity in the concepts of metaphysics implies lack of clarity in other disciplines - both theoretical and practical disciplines - employing those concepts or employing concepts that depend on those of metaphysics.” NaturalRolesDependsDisciplineConceptsRelationPhilosophicalIncludingPracticalsClarityMetaphysicsTheoreticalNatural ScienceEmploying Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.” FeltCasesPositionPhilosophicalVery Good Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
