Oct
27
Kierkegaard, ethics, and acosmism
October 27, 2011 | Leave a Comment
Good afternoon, UPA’ers. As some of you might already know, Kierkegaard holds a special place in my heart, so this week I decided to treat myself to a little philosophical self-indulgence by choosing Louis Mackey’s paper “The Loss of the World in Kierkegaard’s Ethics”. Mackey, a former professor here at UT and recipient of the [...]
Nov
10
Skepticism
November 10, 2010 | Leave a Comment
Hey Everyone, This week we’re going to discuss a classical form of Skepticism! In this reading Sextus Empiricus outlines the method of a form of Skepticism he calls Pyrrhonism. After sketching his method, Empiricus goes on to attack the notion of a criterion for knowledge. This argument is very old and probably dates from the [...]