Question
John McDowell retroactively applied this view to the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this metaphilosophical view, which reduces the role of philosophy to dissolving conceptual and linguistic confusions in other disciplines rather than presenting a positive thesis of its own.
ANSWER: quietism [accept therapeutic approach]
[10m] Modern quietists like Gideon Rosen frequently reject the viability of debating this broad philosophical view. When adopted with regard to metaphysics, this view states that objects exist independently of the mind.
ANSWER: realism
[10e] McDowell’s quietism colors his interpretation of this philosopher, who is also studied by McDowell’s University of Pittsburgh colleague Robert Brandom. This thinker wrote The Phenomenology of Spirit.
ANSWER: G. W. F. Hegel [or Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel; accept analytic Hegelianism]
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Summary
| 2023 ACF Winter @ Columbia | 11/11/2023 | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
Data
| Penn A | Princeton A | 0 | 0 | 10 | 10 |