tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post7796280909142810917..comments2024-03-28T22:33:29.066-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: MEMOIR VOLUME TWO CHAPTER FIVE FIRST INSTALLMENTRobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-69957350618045799032010-06-01T03:19:16.870-04:002010-06-01T03:19:16.870-04:00Thank you, Michael. If I am not mistaken, it was ...Thank you, Michael. If I am not mistaken, it was Maimon's translation of portions of Hume's Dialogues Concerning natural Religion, privately circulated, that made kant aware of Hume's refutaions of the proofs for the existence of God shortly before he completed the First Critique.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-58296064728245795712010-06-01T00:44:03.151-04:002010-06-01T00:44:03.151-04:00Not sure if you'd be interested in this, but a...Not sure if you'd be interested in this, but another blog (Perverse Egalitarianism)is hosting a reading group on Salomon Maimon's Essay on Transcendental Philosophy, which was written as a response/critique to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason. Apparently, even though it was first published in 1790, it's only just now been published in English. <br />Here's a link to the reading group:<br />http://pervegalit.wordpress.com/2010/05/30/maimon-reading-schedule/#more-4663Michaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05781744385645937568noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-32293619587802579292010-05-31T12:39:42.889-04:002010-05-31T12:39:42.889-04:00You may be right. Perhaps I have misjudged him. ...You may be right. Perhaps I have misjudged him. I certainly hope you are right.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-14584514222792946072010-05-31T08:51:48.624-04:002010-05-31T08:51:48.624-04:00"I thought he got seduced by the dark side --..."I thought he got seduced by the dark side -- by the attention he was paid by rightwing think tanks after he published ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA."<br /><br />Seduced into... doing what? Writing _Philosophical Explanations_? <br /><br />It's not as though he spent the years after ASU writing hack-ish right-wing political philosophy... or any right-wing political philosophy... or any political philosophy. I never knew him, but from the written record I get just the opposite impression-- whatever attention of the sort you mention was insufficient to even hold his attention on political philosophy, to say nothing of leading him to adopt a particular line.Jacob T. Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02575549001627195334noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-84912249129112896042010-05-31T02:28:21.978-04:002010-05-31T02:28:21.978-04:00David, I think, but I am not sure, that I actually...David, I think, but I am not sure, that I actually first met Bob Nozick at a meeting at Columbia that he attended when he was rather young. Bob was ferociously smart. He was very, very imaginative, sketching ideas rapidly, imagining possible conceptual pathways rather than trying for rigorous arguments. I thought he got seduced by the dark side -- by the attention he was paid by rightwing think tanks after he published ANARCHY, STATE, AND UTOPIA. On Wednesday, on my other blog [Formal Methods in Political Philosophy] I will post a link to the essay I wrote for the ARIZONA LAW REVIEW on that book. Take a look at it.<br /><br />Matt: My son, Tobias, is a Professor at UPenn Law School. I must ask him about that. I love that story. Bigtime orchestras, I know, have endowed chairs, and I even saw, at an animal hospital to which I took my late cat, Murray, a walk on which there were paving stones donated by people in honor of their pets, with the name of the pet and the donor on it. So maybe I shouldn't be so snarky about Brandeis.Robert Paul Wolffhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-72331357651036362382010-05-31T00:42:30.767-04:002010-05-31T00:42:30.767-04:00I fully expected to find urinals in the men's ...<i>I fully expected to find urinals in the men's rooms named after donors.</i><br /><br />About 8 or so years ago the bathrooms in the basement of the main library at Penn (where the undergraduate study center is, and the reserve desk) were remodeled. The old and rather dingy men's room was done quite nicely, with fancy urinals. Next to the urinals is a little plaque that says, "The relief you are about to experience was made possible by a donation from X". I wish I could remember the donor's name, but I found it quite a funny thing to do. And, in the law school there, you can do something they call "endowing a chair", but is perhaps more properly called "endowing a seat"- for a fairly large but not huge donation you can have your name put on one of the seats in the large lecture halls. I'm told that some donors were annoyed that they couldn't "endow" the particular seat they had sat in, as someone else had already done so.Matthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01446428606119200980noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-1162817174005643212010-05-30T18:33:59.943-04:002010-05-30T18:33:59.943-04:00How did you meet Bob Nozick? What is your opinion ...How did you meet Bob Nozick? What is your opinion of him as a philosopher?Davidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15048385218047191192noreply@blogger.com