Professorial flourishes
Notes from a Dr. Jim Stephen's class.
Reading Wilfrid Sellars' Empiricism & and the Philosophy of Mind and talking about his attempt to counter the characteristic Western philosophic move of foundationalism, he writes the word "wrong" on the board, and then for emphasis he dots the i.
Tracing the history of philosophy on the board, he draws unbroken line from Plato to Kant, a split left to the logical positivists and a wild scrawling line right goes to "metaphysical hyperspace or wherever it is that Hegel lives."
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