Chicagoans are lucky skunks
I quote for evidence footnote twenty of Agnes Callard's Akratic Ignorance: Aristotle's Reply to Socrates
: Proairesis is the inspiration behind
besires
and other attempts to yoke the cognitive and the conative in the works of philosophers such as Thomas Nagel, John McDowell, Nicholas Zangwill, Margaret Little, et aliorum.
A woman after my own heart. (This instance is all the more noteworthy since, while "et al." is normally taken to abbreviate "et alii", it could just as well abbreviate "et aliorum" or "et aliibus" or whatever.) I realize a case can be made that thinking that one should take full advantage of the morphological resources of a language words or phrases of which one is importing into an english sentence might not be highly correlated with philosophical acumen, but until I hear one I'm going to assume that it is.
(Maybe I should mention that the paper is also really interesting and stimulating and whatnot.)
Comments
on 2008-04-18 6:50:20.0, JP Stormcrow commented:
Hmmm ... "besires", I must say that reading your stuff has the potential to really raise my SAT Verbal score. (Where's that James Shearer?)
And since I was such a prick in the comments on the Paper post (I should have said "potentially unforgivable"), let me compliment you on the continuing wonderfulness of the "This be close reading" thread. It might not have the quantity of Obama Antichrist, but it more than makes up for it in quality.