Words&Dirt

I almost quit reading this book after the first few chapters.  Bernard Williams’ opaque arguments about metaphysics and epistemology––hardly my favorite philosophy subjects––are enervating to the point of somnolence.  I’ve never enjoyed or been particularly enlightened by analytical philosophy, which typically deploys the tropes of formal logic to imbue philosophical arguments with an air of […]

“There is the question of what impression one gives of the subject in teaching it.  Most students have no interest in becoming professional philosophers.  They often take away an image of philosophy as a self-contained technical subject, and this can admittedly have its own charm as something complicated which can be well or badly done, […]