Sumários
Mid-term test preparation
19 Março 2024, 09:30 • Delia Belleri
Revising the course's topics before the mid-term test
The value of philosophy
15 Março 2024, 09:30 • Delia Belleri
Reading: Russell, B. “The Value of Philosophy” in: The Problems of Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
The practical man’s critique
Analogy with physics
The value of philosophy beyond utility
Philosophy’s unstable results
Keep the inquiry going
Suggesting many possibilities
Enlargement of self and pure desire of knowledge
Freedom of philosophical contemplation
The value of philosophy
12 Março 2024, 09:30 • Delia Belleri
Challenges to philosophy
The products of philosophy
Wisdom, freedom from dogma, vs. mere subtractive role
Uses of analysis
Piecemeal vs. value-in-itself approach
World views
Particular vs.primal world views
Philosophy and values
Moral improvement: normative vs. non-normative role
Applied philosophy
Ethical experts?
Philosophy as practice and therapy
Good and bad philosophy?
8 Março 2024, 09:30 • Delia Belleri
Reading: Finocchiaro, M.A. (1981). Fallacies and the Evaluation of Reasoning. American Philosophical Quarterly , Vol. 18, No. 1, pp. 13-22.
Textbook fallacies and their classification
Do fallacies actually exist?
Disputed practices
Patterns of misdescription (1)-(4)
The importance of charity in negative evaluation
Non-textbook examples
Either artificial or misdescribed
Philosophers and fallacies
Philosophers are also uncharitable and misidentify fallacies