willow: "i can’t even pretend like this isn’t true bc the first thing i thought when i saw this was “on that reminds me i didn’t get to include the ‘whimsical’ humanities line in my post the other day”"

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i can’t even pretend like this isn’t true bc the first thing i thought when i saw this was “on that reminds me i didn’t get to include the ‘whimsical’ humanities line in my post the other day”

raymond geuss, goals, origins, disciplines, pg 21 of a world without why

At the moment, the relation between what is called philosophy and what are called the humanities is a matter of idiosyncratic associations between certain individuals, which are so contingent they border on the whimsical —the odd Professor of Ethics who also happens to have read Greats at Oxford rather than PPE, or the don who works professionally on some aspect of the philosophy of language but also happens to be devoted to the ballet.

willowFeb 11, 2025

It would not be surprising if the discipline of “philosophy” depended for its continuing vitality on the tension between its different poles - between interest in the structure of the natural world, interest in forms of argumentation, and interest in “what would be for the best”.

February 20, 2025 at 12:14 PM

willowFeb 20, 2025

also the fact that i couldn’t help myself from posting this. i’m doomed chat