Who are the philosophers you would no doubt read if only you had the time? How about the philosophers you suspect that everyone has pretended to read, but whom very few have? If you’ve ever thought there’s just too much reading in philosophy, you’ll be pleased to know there’s only one essential philosopher to read.
Take a gander at this amusing article by Steven Sanders and find out. If only you have the time.
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“What is your aim in Philosophy?”
“To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle” (Philosophical Investigations) - Wittgenstein
Wittgenstein thought that the pursuit of philosophy in its traditional sense is pointless. Philosophers who scoured far and wide for a structured logical form applicable to everything were deluded and wasting their time, much like a fly who constantly tries to escape a transparent bottle by banging against the side. Wittgenstein saw it as his job to show these tenacious philosophers out of the top of the fly-bottle and to see philosophy for what it really is - a futile attempt to find an all-encompassing logical form of thought behind the mess that is ordinary language…
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Here I consider a couple of other responses to skepticism interesting in their own right. Both Externalist and Internalist responses also try to refute skepticism too.
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Internalist views could be said to lead to considering normativity as an issue in Epistemology. That is, what it is we ’should’ or ‘ought’ to believe in various situations such as defining justification or knowledge. For example, whether we should deny situations like the Evil Demon one below, simply because we have to grant ourselves certain beliefs or foundations to even talk about Epistemology in any sensible manner. Let’s start by considering a problem if we take justification to be internal to us.
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We have our basic Justified True Belief (JTB) account of knowledge.
Subject (S) knows something (p) iff:
(P1) p is true
(P2) S believes that p
(P3) S is justified in believing that p.
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