[lit-ideas] Re: The Philosophy of As If
- From: Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 11 Mar 2009 16:58:08 -0700
This may relate. In UC/Berkeley, philosopher Grice once taught a seminar on
'as if' -- Nancy Cartwright attended and wrote about it later. There is a
German philosopher who wrote a whole book about it too, "als ob".
Hans Vaihinger, Philosophie des Als Ob. 'Als Ob' never caught on with
American teenagers as a way of expressing the unlikeliness of one's
doing or believing a certain thing.
Robert Paul
------------------------------------------------------------------
To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off,
digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html
Other related posts:
