RE: MD Making sense of it (levels)

From: Matt the Enraged Endorphin (mpkundert@students.wisc.edu)
Date: Sun Mar 09 2003 - 18:45:28 GMT

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    Sam, DMB,

    The Oxford Companion to Philosophy:
    "The shortest definition, and it is quite a good one, is that philosophy
    is thinking about thinking. ...

    Sam asked:
    Firstly - who wrote the article? That might be revealing.

    DMB says:
    I don't have the Oxford Companion with me today and can't tell you who wrote
    the article. But I hardly think it makes a difference.

    Matt:
    The writer of the definition was "The Rt. Hon. Lord Quinton" from Trinity
    College, Oxford. And of course it matters who wrote it (though I couldn't
    tell you a damn thing about Lord Quinton) because defining philosophy is
    contested metaphilosophical space. The winners of this space decided who's
    doing philosophy and who isn't. That's a powerful ability.

    Matt

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