The Task of a Naturalist: An Epitaph for Philippa Foot (1920-2010)

• Authors: Piotr Makowski
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Philippa Foot once said: I'm not clever at all. I have a certain insight into philosophy, cost I think. But I'm not clever, I don't find complicated arguments easy to follow(Baggini, 2003). Foot's cleverness enticed many thinkers to take these Gombrowiczian lines seriously.

Keywords

EN

philosophy; naturalism; ethics; morality; Gombrowicz

• Publisher: Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza w Poznaniu
• Journal: Ethics in Progress
• Year: 2010
• Volume: 1
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 63-64

Dates

published

2010-01-01

Contributors

author

Piotr Makowski

• Adam Mickiewicz University

References

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Identifiers

DOI

10.14746/eip.2010.1.8