
Hillary Putnam on Morality | Mario de Caro
Brain in a Vat
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Is There Progress in Philosophy?
The idea of progress is not necessary, nor epistemically nor morally. Progress is simply the form of a development in which what happens later can be compared with what happened before. The fact that philosophers haven't found answers is not a philosopher's responsibility. Probably there are not such answers. But certainly we know better than Plato in defining knowledge. We don't matter more than human counting in thinking about free will. And it's better from some interesting point of view. So people have this idea There is a problem. There is a solution but then even science doesn't give this. It's not true. Newton did not give any solution according to this because he was wrong. He gave it
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