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“Some philosophers are drawn to the subject [of philosophy] via their interest in the nature and structure of the world external to us. Others are drawn to it by an interest in the capacities that make humans distinctive in the world. I am a philosopher of the latter sort. My work thus far has been clustered around the nexus of knowledge, communication, and human action.”

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Jason Stanley is a distinguished philosopher recognized for his contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, and political philosophy. Born on October 12, 1969, he has made significant scholarly contributions, particularly in the areas of truth, knowledge, and political obligation. His research often intersects with issues of social justice and political theory. more

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“Now I do not myself share that superstitious reverence for the beliefs of common sense which many contemporary philosophers profess. But I think that we must start from them, and that we ought to depart from them only when we find good reason to do so.”

Thinking Reason Belief Common Share Ought Philosophical Philosopher Contemporary Common Sense Reverence Superstitious

Author:C. D. Broad

“As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity to explaining away plain facts which obviously conflict with it.”

People Philosophy Facts Happens Accepting Principles Conflict Philosophical Clever Endless Labour Explaining Ingenuity

Author:C. D. Broad

“Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented as an argument is really a rationalization. This can undermine our confidence in the original method or practice only by giving us reasons to believe something else, so that finally we have to think about the arguments to make up our minds.”

Thinking Giving Mind Believe Ends Reason Challenges Results Practice Example Argument Universal Philosophical Originals Method

Book:Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994

Source: Other Minds: Critical Essays 1969-1994

“When a man is proud because he can understand and explain the writings of Chrysippus, say to yourself, 'if Chrysippus had not written obscurely, this man would have had nothing to be proud of.'”

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Book:The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus

Source: The Enchiridion, or Handbook: With A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus

“If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands?”

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Book:Notes and Fragments

Source: Notes and Fragments

“...one can hardly deny that mankind has a common store of thoughts which is transmitted from one generation to another.”

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Book:Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege

Source: Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob Frege

“It is possible, of course, to operate with figures mechanically, just as it is possible to speak like a parrot: but that hardly deserves the names of thought. It only becomes possible at all after the mathematical notation has, as a result of genuine thought, been so developed that it does the thinking for us, so to speak.”

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Book:The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry Into the Concept of Number

Source: The Foundations of Arithmetic: A Logico-Mathematical Enquiry Into the Concept of Number

“Could one imagine a stone's having consciousness? And if anyone can do so-why should that not merely prove that such image-mongery is of no interest to us?”

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Book:Philosophical Investigations

Source: Philosophical Investigations

“'Imagine a person whose memory could not retain what the word 'pain' meant-so that he constantly called different things by that name-but nevertheless used the word in a way fitting in with the usual symptoms and presuppositions of pain'-in short he uses it as we all do. Here I should like to say: a wheel that can be turned though nothing else moves with it, is not part of the mechanism.”

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Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“You ask: What is it that philosophers have called qualitative states? I answer, only half in jest: As Louis Armstrong said when asked what jazz is, 'If you got to ask, you ain't never gonna get to know.'”

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Book:Consciousness, function, and representation

Source: Consciousness, function, and representation