Haack On Old Deferentialists and New Cynics

The Old Deferentialists, taking the rationality of science for granted, assumed that there must be a uniquely rational method of inquiry exclusive to the sciences; the New Cynics, noticing the failure of efforts to articulate what that uniquely rational method is, conclude that science is not a rational enterprise, in fact, that the whole idea of objectively better or worse conducted inquiry is ideological humbug. Neither the Old Deferentialism nor the New Cynicism will do: the former is too uncritically deferential to science, the latter is too uncritically critical. 

Susan Haack, Manifesto of a Passionate Moderate, p.3

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Wittgenstein On Calculi Containing Contradictions

Indeed, even at this stage I predict a time when there will be mathematical investigations of calculi containing contradictions, and people will actually be proud of having emancipated themselves even from consistency.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, Philosophical Remarks

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Priest On the Say-so of Experts

[N]o one is an expert in many areas, and we all have to accept things on the say-so of experts in some areas. If someone believes that it is irrational to believe contradictions on the basis of experts in logic and philosophy, their belief is not irrational. The charge of irrationality is levelled against people who ought to have known better. 

Graham Priest, Doubt Truth to be a Liar, p.121

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論理性

有些基本的行為動機並非出於理性 ── 例如愛、品味與性格 ── 但是，「與理性無關」並不等同於「非理性」。喜歡草莓更甚於覆盆子，這與理性或非理性無關；然而，就偏好來看，如果此時草莓與覆盆子的價格相同，卻捨草海而買覆盆子，就是個非理性的選擇。

朱立安．巴吉尼，自願被吃的豬

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Rorty On Analytic Philosophy

Any problem that enjoys a simultaneous vogue in ten of the hundred or so “analytic” philosophy departments in America is doing exceptionally well. The field these days is a jungle of competing research programs, programs which seem to have a shorter and shorter half-life as the years go by.

Richard Rorty, Consequences of Pragmatism: Essays: 1972 - 1980

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Moore On the Business of Philosophers

It is not the business of the ethical philosopher to give personal advice or exhortation.

G. E. Moore, Principia Ethica

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Grice On Philosophy

It is no more sensible to complain that philosophy is no longer capable of solving practical problems than it is to complain that the study of the stars no longer enables one to predict the course of world events. 

Paul Grice, “Postwar Oxford Philosophy”

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