tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post3031764735590397821..comments2024-03-29T03:19:09.227-04:00Comments on The Philosopher's Stone: A GOLDEN OLDIERobert Paul Wolffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11970360952872431856noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-70392630234645107482019-07-11T22:45:10.008-04:002019-07-11T22:45:10.008-04:00I have a stake in the outcome of this dispute, but...I have a stake in the outcome of this dispute, but I'd like to think that being a dork and being a swell guy are not mutually exclusive.Deannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-32728980133156879362019-07-11T22:42:52.354-04:002019-07-11T22:42:52.354-04:00A dork?
Here is a recent story about Magee, now 8...A dork?<br /><br />Here is a recent story about Magee, now 89 years of age:<br /><br />https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk/2018/04/even-old-age-philosopher-bryan-magee-remains-wonder-struck-ultimate-questions<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-3112078651471124852019-07-11T22:16:58.988-04:002019-07-11T22:16:58.988-04:00I think Chomsky's take on free will is eminent...I think Chomsky's take on free will is eminently practical. Strictly speaking, I've long found determinism persuasive as a philosophical thesis, but I'm also of the mind that it doesn't matter - we feel that we're free, and I can't see a way around that phenomenology.<br /><br />My favorite take on free will is this <a href="http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=866" rel="nofollow">Dinosaur Comics</a> strip.TheDudeDiogeneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11613928663752680375noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-21259948912599424792019-07-11T22:00:48.225-04:002019-07-11T22:00:48.225-04:00The Chomsky quote about free will does seem a bit ...The Chomsky quote about free will does seem a bit Scholastic, but how does it demonstrate that he so egregiously misunderstands the question?Deannoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-65308343430526568262019-07-11T21:47:26.565-04:002019-07-11T21:47:26.565-04:00I've listened to hours and hours of chomsky on...I've listened to hours and hours of chomsky on YouTube, and I've probably only scratched the surface of the library of what's there.<br /><br />But eventually, I got frustrated with his responses to questions of free will and determinism. I couldn't understand how someone so smart could so completely misunderstand the question. "Of course we have free will, for one necessarily must have it in order to come to the conclusion that he doesn't." What! I couldn't believe it, so I gave up on Chomsky.<br /><br />This interview seems different though. I don't exactly know what he's saying here, so I'm gonna try to parse it again later when I'm awake. Does it have implications on the issue of determinism? I just don't understand how philosophers spend time talking about anything without addressing this obvious issue of free will....Sonicnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-41294334015074709472019-07-11T21:42:17.182-04:002019-07-11T21:42:17.182-04:00Additionally, Magee’s intellectual autobiography, ...Additionally, Magee’s intellectual autobiography, Confessions of a Philosopher, is a delightful and stimulating jaunt through the Western philosophical tradition. He writes with with wit and passion and, as Wallerstein notes, is gifted at making accesible otherwise complex and often ponderous philosophical ideas and arguments. A man after your own heart, professor!A. Cameronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09743343971047336609noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-23052468741601804332019-07-11T19:04:43.315-04:002019-07-11T19:04:43.315-04:00Wikipedia profile of Magee.
https://en.wikipedia.o...Wikipedia profile of Magee.<br />https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_Magees. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5687347459208158501.post-51020207509524753112019-07-11T19:01:47.644-04:002019-07-11T19:01:47.644-04:00That dork is Bryan Magee, who probably did more t...That dork is Bryan Magee, who probably did more through his BBC interviews with famous philosophers to get a mass audience for philosophy than any other person in Anglo-Saxon countries at least.<br /><br />Obviously, Magee is not Chomsky's intellectual match, but who of us is?<br /><br />Magee wrote a fairly well considered book on Schopenhauer by the way.s. wallersteinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17448905469871566228noreply@blogger.com