Monday 1 March 2010

The Carnap We Love

---- By J. L. Speranza, of the Grice Circle
---------- for the Carnap Corner

--- Roger Bishop Jones may not be welcoming the 'we' in header, or the verb ('love') but that's because he loves ALL CARNAPS. The Carnap I particularly love is the one I identify with quotes like this below, from an online source:

"Carnap and Ayer ridiculed the whole debate as mystical nonsense."

--- any old debate: realism vs. idealism, monism vs. pluralism (I think the case is in the above quote), objectivism vs. subjectivism, libertarianism vs. determinism -- and the REST of them!


----- Grice Studies. Get your PhD NOW

-------- Carnap Studies -- Get your PhD -- YESTERDAY!

(Just joking: on the idea that Carnap makes the study of philosophy (as we knew it) quite a lovely study to undertake: Imagine his suggested readings for "Metaphysics II". What a genius!)

We need to consider Philosophy (or at least _I_ should) as it applies to items _Grice_ found of interest, which makes the thing funNER!

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