The A Posteriori Armchair.
A lot of good philosophy is done in the armchair, but is nevertheless a posteriori. This paper clarifies and then defends that claim. Among the a posteriori activities done in the armchair are assembling and evaluating commonplaces; formulating theoretical alternatives; and integrating well-known pa...
| Publicado en: | Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol. 93; no. 2; pp. 211 - 232 |
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