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Philosophy and Philosophies

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 January 2009

E.J. Craig
E.J. Craig
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Churchill College, Cambridge
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People who approach philosophy, as it figures in the activities of mostEnglish-speaking universities, often find their expectations curiously wideof the mark. They have expectations, of course, because the word ‘philosophy’ is not a technical term; there is no need to have taken any exams to use it happily enough in general conversation.

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Philosophy , Volume 58 , Issue 224 , April 1983, pp. 189 - 201
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Copyright © The Royal Institute of Philosophy 1983

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References

1 Wordsworth, ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey’ (1798).

2 Galileo, Dialogues Concerning the Two Chief World Systems (trans. Drake) (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1967), 103.

3 Galileo, ibid., Author's Dedication.

4 Leibniz, Discourse on Metaphysics §XXXVI.

5 Engels, Anti-Dilhring Pt I, Ch. XI (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959), 158.

6 I refer to: J. L. Mackie, Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong (Harmondsworth:Penguin Books, 1977).

7 Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations §i.

8 This paper is a shortened version of three radio talks first broadcast in January 1981 under the general title ‘Philosophy and Philosophies’. The individual talks were called: I, Philosophy and Philosophies; II, The Image of God; III, The Agent in the Void.