Even though for the podcast we read only the equivalent of three short papers by Anscombe, there was an awful lot of ground that we didn't cover, because Anscombe had so much to say about such a variety of topics. One thing we didn't cover was her dismissals of moral philosophers from Butler through Mill, which she presents very, very cursorily at the beginning of "Modern Moral Continue Reading …
In Defense of the Expectation Thesis
[Editor's note: We're happy here to get a contribution on humor from Philosophy Bro who was on our recent Wittgenstein episodes. Give him a nice round of applause.] I think that "funny" is one of those words that you're going to have a real bad time trying to delimit or explain entirely. But, uh... fuck it. Here goes. In Wittgensteinian fashion, I mean them with the implicit Continue Reading …