Problems come and go over time, and to understand why is a difficult historical task. If one wanted to find the origin of a problem, historical research and close attention to texts is what is needed, not unconstrained speculation about the 'pictures' that philosophers must be in the grip of.
Tim CraneI had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.
Tim CraneUnlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content
Tim CraneThe thing I think I have learned from Wittgenstein is the importance of not making things up: philosophers should not invent problems, and they should also be conscious of the risk of inventing pointless 'technical' machinery which do not offer real explanations, but often just re-state the known facts in a more complex way.
Tim Crane