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Quote by Philip Kitcher

“Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives.”

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Philip Kitcher, born on February 20, 1947, is a philosopher, writer, and academic. His research interests are primarily in the fields of philosophy of science, epistemology, and moral philosophy. more

“My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem that sparks the ethical project lies in our limited responsiveness to one another. The only way we have to address that problem is through a representative, informed, and engaged conversation.”

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Author:Philip Kitcher

“I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.”

Progress Elements Ethical Stable

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“The expert is a midwife. The expert is not someone who has the authority to pronounce the last word on the subject.”

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“In ethics, we don't make progress by discovering pre-existent truths; we do so by solving problems.”

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“Exercise is labor without weariness.”

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Author:Samuel Johnson

“Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics is objectively constrained. It's not the case that "anything goes".”

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Author:Philip Kitcher

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