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Jan Srzednicki has turned his hand to a wide range of skilled activities, being a man of many talents other than the philosophical. He is, for instance, a painter who has successfully exhibited his work. In what follows I attempt to make two of his interests, epistemology and art, or rather the artistic imagination, confront each other.
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This is Aristotle’s account of the voluntary. See Nicomachean Ethics,Bk. 3, Ch. 1.
Leonard Goddard, Philosophical Problems (Edinburgh, 1977), p. 68.
John Henry Newman, On Consulting the Faithful in Matters of Doctrine (London, 1961), p. 44.
William Blake, “London”, from his Songs of Experience.
Wilfrid Sellars, Science Perception and Reality (London, 1963), p. 173.
John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, (London, J.M. Dent & Sons, 1961) vol. 1, p. xxxv; D.M. Armstrong, A Materialist Theory of Mind (London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968).
Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motor Cycle Maintenance (London, 1974), p. 171.
Appearance and Reality, 2nd edition (London, 1897) p. x.
Ibid., p. 6.
Marc Chagall, My Life (London, 1965), p. 95. (I think that my title is also a phrase of Chagall’s but I have not been able to trace it.)
Ibid., pp. 101–102.
Alfred Vagts, A History of Militarism, Civilian and Military (London, 1959) p. 142.
Hans Vaihinger, The Philosophy of “As If”: A System of the Theoretical, Practical and Religious Fictions of Mankind, translated by C.K. Ogden (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1935).
“Recklessness, Weakness and Compulsion”, presented at the University of Melbourne Philosophy Colloquium in September 1992.
David Lewis, On The Plurality of Worlds (Oxford, Blackwell, 1986), p. 134.
Quoted by Paul Levy in his Moore (London, 1979), p. 124.
Quoted by John Passmore in A Hundred Years of Philosophy (Harmondsworth, 1968), p. 205.
G.E. Moore, “A Defence of Common Sense”, in his Philosophical Papers (London, 1959), pp. 44, 33, 35, 36.
Hegel ‘s Philosophy of Right,translated by T.M. Knox (Oxford, 1945), p. 13.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, edited by G.E.M. Anscombe & G.H. von Wright, translated by Denis Paul & G.E.M. Anscombe (Oxford, 1969).
A.C. Baier, “Nonsense”, Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Paul Edwards (New York, 1967), Vol. 5, p. 520.
Compare Wittgenstein’s remarks in Philosophical Investigations, translated by G.E.M. Anscombe (Oxford, 1953), Section 252: “This body has extension.” To this we might reply “Nonsense!” But we are inclined to reply “Of course!” Why is this? Other relevant passages in the Investigations are 348, 349, 500, 513, 514.
G.E. Moore, “Proof of an External World”, in his Philosophical Papers (London, George Allen & Unwin, 1959) pp. 145–6.
G.E. Moore, “A Defence of Common Sense”, ibid., pp. 42–43.
Ibid., p. 43.
Ibid., p. 44.
Ibid., p. 40.
See Appendix, section 3.
G.E. Moore, “A Defence of Common Sense”, ibid., pp. 42–43.
G.E. Moore, “Reply to My Critics”, in P.A. Schillp (ed.), The Philosophy of G.E. Moore (New York, 1952), pp. 664–5.
Bertrand Russell, Problems of Philosophy (London, Oxford University Press, 1946), p. 63.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, On Certainty, paragraph 505.
G.K. Chesterton, St. Francis of Assisi (London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924), pp. 83–4.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value (Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1980), p. 76e.
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Scarlett, B. (1993). Crimes Against Common Sense. In: Poli, R. (eds) Consciousness, Knowledge, and Truth. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2060-9_2
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