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Empty ideas?

21 June 2014 Myers E0: Ethics in general, P0: Philosophy in general analytic philosophy, skepticism

Philosophy is a bunch of empty ideas. Or so Peter Unger, a philosopher who has written quite a few impressive works of philosophy, now claims.

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