
Episode 2: Descartes’s Meditations: What Can We Know?
The Partially Examined Life Philosophy Podcast
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How to Write a Philosophy Paper
i just, i find this to be very personal. And of course, that's intentionally and it sort of goes towards what he's trying to demonstrate or talk about. I think that's a natural state for philosophy. It is refreshing that he's willing to be so personal. He doesn't have to a to pretend to be this very professional scientist or academic philosopher. Well, yethe, he makes a point of not referring to other texts. Which is the big thing that makes it so hard and annoying to write philosophy professionally, is that you can't just have an original thought. You have to say what existing thoughts in the literature it relates to. That's what you start writing.
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