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Christopher Peacocke on David Wiggins

“Intellectual empathy can transform philosophical conversation and teaching. If you understand from the other’s point of view their doubts, concerns, their philosophical hinterland, you will be able to communicate ideas in ways not otherwise available”. — David Wiggins: A Personal Philosophical Memoir (open access). christopher peacockeDavid Wigginsmetaphyicssameness and substance

david pears, wittgenstein

David Pears

Born on this day — check out the obits along with Pears and Murdoch in discussion on the idea of freedom. When his book Ludwig Wittgenstein was published in 1971, Igor Stravinksy wrote to congratulate Pears on the beauty of his writing, which, wrote Bernard Williams, “combines in a very pure form the more conversational…