I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The point of philosophy, as I see it, is to change thinking, and thereby to change the conversation. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Most influential of all is the philosopher Stanley Cavell, and a younger generation of philosophers who have attempted to follow his pioneering… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Mann was less interested, I think, in constructing any kind of "portrait of an age" than he was in delineating an individual… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
So is fighting incompleteness the source of artistic neurosis? I doubt it. At most, this would apply to artists who deal with… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't think readers of Mann have overlooked the fact that he was a great ironist, but they have tended to see… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Think about Mann's own daily routine (ascribed to Aschenbach), read the extant diaries and the letters in which he discusses the novella's… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The more you read the novella, the more you should wonder, I think, which judgments are to be taken as bedrock. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
We know that he gave Aschenbach Mahler's first name, and also his facial features. So Visconti picks up on something interesting. That… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
A different vision of ethics is that of a collection of resources people can use to act better. The resources might be… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I didn't know that Mahler would come to play so large a role, nor that music and literature and philosophy can interinanimate… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I think the tone of mockery Heller finds is a part of Mann's irony, but only a part - a brilliant further… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Refined religion is aimed at realizing ethical values, including the fostering of human lives and human communities. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Many of the greatest works of philosophy seem to me to be valuable not because of their arguments, but because they offer us perspectives… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
As I read Mann in German for the first time, the full achievement - both literary and philosophical - of Death in Venice struck… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Look at Mann's reading habits, his explicit comments on Nietzsche, and his copy of Birth of Tragedy, and it starts to seem doubtful that… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
My ethical naturalism sees us as facing the predicament of being social animals without evolved adaptations that make social life easy. The fundamental problem… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
So my methodological approach is to draw on many different features in highlighting different facets of the novella (and the opera and the film). — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
In my view, we ought to replace the notion of analytic philosophy by that of synthetic philosophy. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Philosophers ought to aspire to know lots of different things and to forge useful synthetic perspectives. — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
The balance between literature and philosophy in Schopenhauer and Nietzsche is different from that struck in the novella, but, as Mann clearly pointed out… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
I don't think that anything of any consequence is known a priori: all our knowledge is built up by modifying the lore passed on… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Because the problems are objective features of the human situation - social animals without the capacities for making social life come easily - ethics… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
