Styles of Thinking

An article from Scientific American on-line.

Santayana Weighs In

“The trouble with you philosophers is that you misunderstand your vocation. You ought to be poets, but you insist on laying down the law for the universe, physical and moral, and are vexed with one another because your inspirations are not identical.” George Santayana, The Last Puritan, 602.

The Putnam-Rorty Debate and the Pragmatist Revival

What Richard Rorty Taught Me

The Thinker

"Probably the most violent and aggressive act that any person can do to other persons is to invade their minds with ideas and twists of meaning which disturb the comforting security of things known and faith kept. Yet this is what I, as a teacher, am required to do."

R. W. Packer, "Breaking the Sound Barrier: A Dramatic Presentation" in Teaching in the Universities: No One Way, McGill-Queens University Press, 1974.