The Task of a Naturalist: An Epitaph for Philippa Foot (1920-2010)
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Keywords

philosophy
naturalism
ethics
morality
Gombrowicz

How to Cite

Makowski, P. (2010). The Task of a Naturalist: An Epitaph for Philippa Foot (1920-2010). ETHICS IN PROGRESS, 1(1), 63–64. https://doi.org/10.14746/eip.2010.1.8

Abstract

Philippa Foot once said: I'm not clever at all. I have a certain insight into philosophy, cost I think. But I'm not clever, I don't find complicated arguments easy to follow(Baggini, 2003). Foot's cleverness enticed many thinkers to take these Gombrowiczian lines seriously.
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