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“A lot of times being "completely objective" means seeing the world through a patriarchal eye.”

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Marisa Tomei is an American actress renowned for her Oscar-winning performance in 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding'. She is celebrated for her exceptional performances in films such as 'Forrest Gump', 'American Beauty', and 'Julie & Julia'. more

“Those stories weren't being written at all - stories about women's inner lives and outer activism. We've come miles and miles, but we still don't have an equal rights amendment yet. We don't have equal pay yet. There's a lot of blind misogyny that's not personal, but institutionalized. We still have work to do, but even just looking at those old Ms. Magazines is a cool thing to do - to see how daring they were. They just went right into the belly of the beast.”

“Until I was a junior in high school, I was a "boy scientist" type and expected to go into chemistry. Then I discovered the humanities. I read the plays of Shakespeare voraciously, some novels, such as Pasternack's Dr. Zhivago and Sinclair Lewis' Main Street, and I got into philosophy by reading Kierkegaard and Nietzsche.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“In the mid-1960s, as hard to believe as it may be now, choosing to go into academic philosophy was not an imprudent career choice. There were lots of academic jobs in philosophy then.”

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“Teaching and writing about philosophy is about the only thing I've ever been really good at.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“I am a one-trick pony. But I have worked hard at something I would have liked to do even if I weren't paid a penny for it, and made a good living at it. You can't be luckier than that in this life, no matter who you are or what you do.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“It's hard to transfer one person's type of comic timing or approach to another person's. It's something you innately hear like a rhythm in your ear.”

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Author:Marisa Tomei

“In my view, there was a long period in which analytical philosophy had little to say about ethics. I think their intellectual tools did not do well with it, and analytical philosophy was above all about revolutionizing the philosophical tool box. It was more or less assumed that the Truth about ethics was some form of utilitarianism (perhaps because some consequentialist calculus looked to them like a respectable tool). Kantian ethics was then interpreted as a particularly odious version of the False - "deontology" - and treated with contempt.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“It is often difficult to know about one's own era which philosophers in it will be remembered as the most important ones, but I think it is already clear that John Rawls is the greatest moral philosopher of the twentieth century.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“I think the term "Kantian constructivism" as an oxymoron. Kant was a constructivist about mathematics, but not about ethics.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

“It is probably not a good idea to ask someone to expound a position they do not accept and do not feel they even fully understand.”

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Author:Allen W. Wood

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