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Ceding Our Voices to Isolation
In grad school, I read Cavell’s “The Argument of the Ordinary” and found much to love in it. But especially I loved the final lines: At any time I may…
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Perspective as a Metaphor in Philosophy
A philosophical problem has the form: ‘I don’t know my way about’ (Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations §123). Gilbert Ryle begins his 1949 book, The Concept of Mind with a metaphor: “many people can talk sense with…