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Reticence is often over-determined, so Ian Ground's explanation of why Wittgenstein's private notebooks were slow to see the light of day, 'that his generation just thought it rather vulgar, intrusive [...]

An examination of late Rorty shows that he does not abandon belief in an external world about which we can, and indeed must, acquire knowledge. His disapproval of the correspondence theory of truth does not involve the idea that anything other than local weather, for example, could falsify remarks about local weather. It is just that once we get done looking out the window or, if we are outside, feeling the right kind of drops make contact with our skin, there is nothing else we can do, nothing better, to make ourselves more certain, more cognitively secure. One can see this in the detailed work that enables scientific progress. Science improves itself by doing more of the same. G. E. Moore's famous open question stays open only as a reminder that our fallibility never disappears and that our cognitive security is never better than pro tem. Rorty, as a faithful pragmatist and undogmatic meliorist, thinks this is perfectly O.K. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Adam Mars-Jones is only half right in describing West Side Story (1961) as Robert Wise's film (December 10). The co-director was Jerome Robbins, who won an Academy award, along with [...]

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I haven't read Philip Goff's Galileo's Error, though Alex Moran's review (April 17) makes me want to. What seems to be the main idea, that we vastly overestimate our understanding [...]

The article discusses a growing literature on the wrong way to form desires or preferences which Jon Elster has discussed like such things as adaptive preference formation, counteradaptive preference formation and conformism. It points out that preferences provide reasons whether they are motivated or not and people with peculiar preferences would explain their actions. It refers to Pierre Bourdieu who provides a highly developed account of how agency is actually exercised.

Examines various issues concerning the intelligibility and rationality of belief. Focus on the influence of the conception of causality on the interpretation of tribal practices such as head-hunting; Anthropologists' interpretations of the benefits and actual causal efficacy of head-hunting; Relevance and relative importance of conceptual features of concepts.

The article presents the author's insights on the analysis and construction of philosophy. The author mentions that philosophers construct verbal objects that catalyze understanding from aphorisms to architectonic systems. He says that philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein has seen the philosophy as a therapeutic activity which intervenes in the multiform and opacities of everyday life. He adds that philosophy a ritualized reaction-formation in developing a natural science.

The article offers the author's insights regarding sex in philosophy. The author mentions the definition of cathexis by Sigmund Freud as an investment of libido in a cathected object. The author states that the archeology of fixation of relative fixation of desire is the psycho-analysis, which can bound to discover its source in some basic human interest.