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Has philosophy lost its stories? | Galen Strawson, Patricia Churchland, Hilary Lawson

Philosophy For Our Times

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Should We Welcome the Return to Metaphysics?

Galen Strawson is a renowned critic of philosophical realism. He's best known for his work on reflectivity and his theory of closer. Each speaker has three minutes to put their case to our opening question, should we welcome the return to metaphysics? Galen: I wouldn't put it at the beginning of the twentieth century for a start. In vienna, the vienna circle, they explicitly renounced all metaphysics. And i suppose its sought to have happened again a bit with the ordinary language philosophers in the 19 ties.

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