...avoid relativism? The rabid, unhelpful sort? G.E. Moore once pointed out how we are always trapped by what he called the “open question” in moral reasoning. Someone can always ask,...
...philosophy played in his community, Lycan discussed the community of philosophy. It seems clear, he said, that the era of “big names” in philosophy (he specifically mentioned G.E. Moore and...
...Quine, apparently) and H.-G. Gadamer both wrote dissertations on it—Gadamer specifically to counter Heidegger’s critique of Plato. A crew as diverse as Georg Cantor, G.E. Moore, and Giorgio Agamben were...
...of support that is even stronger than the traditional knowledge claim. G.E. Moore once offered a “long list of propositions…every one of which,” he says, “I know, with certainty, to...
