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lundi 26 décembre 2011

Derek Parfit, sa vie, son oeuvre...

...dans ce long mais intéressant article de The New Yorker. Quelques citations rigolotes :

"He decided to study philosophy. He attended a lecture by a Continental philosopher that adressed some important subject such as suicide or the meaning of life, but he couldn't understand any of it. He went to hear an analytic philosopher who spoke on a trivial topic but was quite lucid. He wondered whether it was more likely that Continental philosophers would become more lucid or analytic philosophers less trivial. He decided that the second was more likely (...)"

"Around the mid-nineties, Parfit started reading Kant. He hadn't read him seriously because he had always found him irritating - (...) (it was Kant, he felt, who had made really bad writing philosophically acceptable)"

lundi 18 mai 2009

CONF: Atelier avec John Broome, Genève

John Broome (qui occupe la White's Chair of Moral Philosophy à Oxford) vient à Genève pour une journée autour de ses dernier travaux ce vendredi avec Olaf Gjelsvik (Oslo), Sven Ove Hansson (KTH Stockholm) et Andrew Reisner (McGill).

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