by Daniel A. Kaufman ____ On the latest episode of Sophia, Daniel Kaufman and Crispin Sartwell talk about Crispin’s article for the New York Times,
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From Passion to Belief
by Daniel Tippens David Hume, the 18th century Scottish philosopher and empiricist, did not believe that there are any self-evident truths (beyond the trivial “relations
The Analytic/Continental Split
by Daniel A. Kaufman My discussion with Crispin Sartwell on the Analytic/Continental divide. Originally aired on the Sophia program, MeaningofLife.TV., April 10, 2019.
The Circle of Quality and Expertise
By Daniel A. Kaufman ___ My daughter Victoria just finished two weeks of a classical voice program at NYU. It was her first taste of
Course Notes: A.J. Ayer, Language, Truth, and Logic
by Daniel A. Kaufman http://s-f-walker.org.uk/pubsebooks/pdfs/ayerLTL.pdf It’s finals week, which means that the semester is at a close (and that I’m grading my ass off), and
Reason and the Post-Human
by Daniel A. Kaufman In “Excessive Reason,” an essay I published in these pages last year, I argued that mainline philosophy is characterized by a