“Hume’s brute reading of how color works is quite disturbing, even more so than his bleak view of morals.”
— Ethics professor (via philosophyprofessorquotes)
3:32 pm • 13 October 2017 • 229 notes
“Descartes is the dartboard at which Pascal throws his darts.”
— History of Philosophy professor
2:13 pm • 12 October 2017 • 146 notes
“Are you interested in the truth or are you interested in winning?”
— Ethics professor
6:16 pm • 12 September 2017 • 516 notes
“Philosophy is sort of like sex. It is fun to watch other people do it but nothing compares to doing it yourself.”
— Epistemology Professor
6:24 pm • 6 September 2017 • 371 notes
“For Nietzsche, a guy nailed to a two by four just isn’t God material.”
— History of Philosophy professor
5:14 pm • 15 February 2017 • 723 notes
“Honestly in this type of argument I like to just take a moment to blame Descartes for everything and move on.”
— Epistemology professor
1:51 pm • 4 February 2017 • 670 notes
“Remember, there’s no shame in switching careers.”
— Ethics professor on his last lecture of the Introduction to Philosophy course.
12:43 pm • 2 February 2017 • 479 notes
“Nothing is literally happening and yet it means everything.”
— Metaphysics professor
12:45 pm • 20 May 2016 • 1,280 notes
“You can teach an entire first order logic class without using the word ‘set’ and the only thing you would lose is fashion.”
— Logic professor
8:25 pm • 5 May 2016 • 229 notes
“People that do work on modal auxiliary verbs like ’shall’ and ‘will’ tend to go crazy after awhile.”
— Philosophy of Language professor (via philosophyprofessorquotes)
5:12 pm • 4 April 2016 • 702 notes