I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.

It's not at all a bad idea for scientific questions to be chosen because a democratic deliberation would identify them as important for people's lives.

I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate one another in the way I've come to think they do in this case.

I take the ethical truths to be the stable elements that emerge out of ethical progress and that are retained under further ethical progress.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

The "little theme" from Vinteuil, heard by Swann as emblematic of his love for Odette, remains a point of reference for him, as the character of that love changes and as the love eventually fades.

So this is my attempt to give a preliminary - probably far too crude - account of how philosophy by showing can really teach us. The attempts we make to work through problems by reasoning always presuppose starting points, and even the most self-critical philosophers adopt some of those starting points simply by picking them up from the social environments in which they grow up.