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Dan Taylor on the philosophical method
“The New Basics: Method”: by Dan Taylor
For Dan Taylor, philosophy begins through its struggle with authority. It is found among the earliest efforts to articulate and teach an understanding of the natural world or the mind’s inner life without deference to deities or tradition, or acquiescence to superstition. In this essay, Taylor looks to three aspects of the philosophical method: causality, metaphor and struggle. Taking us on a journey from Spinoza and Kant to Foucault and Malcolm X, Taylor invites us to speculate on how people might do philosophy in the 2120s. You can read his essay here.
