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Scott Shapiro

Five Questions

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Is Your Temperament Affecting Your Philosophy?

Iris Modok was inspired by ancient BBC interviews in which Brian McGee would talk to philosophers and sit on a dilapidated couch one of whom was Iris Modok. She also wrote that to do philosophy is to explore one's temperament and yet at the same time to attempt to discover the truth. So I'm interested in whether your temperament influences your philosophy and if it does so how well It's such a profound question that I couldn't possibly give a profound answer to it but let me I guess I would I would say that what draws me the philosophy is my abiding sense of confusion.

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