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Open AccessArticle by Elijah Millgram Philosophy Department, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84124, USA Philosophies 2023, 8(1), 2; https://doi.org/10.3390/philosophies8010002 (registering DOI) Received: 5 September 2022 / Revised: 15 December 2022 / Accepted: 19 December 2022 / Published: 27 December 2022 Abstract : Nihilism about practical reasoning is the thesis that there is no such thing as practical rationality—as rationally figuring out what to do.
Elijah Millgram, author of The Great Endarkenment, sits down with Svantje Guinebert, of the University of Bremen, to answer her questions and discuss the role of logic in philosophy. Svantje Guinebert: Elijah, on occasion, you’ve said that logic, at least the logic that most philosophers are taught, is stale science, and that it’s getting in the way of philosophers learning about newer developments. But surely logic is important for philosophers.
Everyone remembers Newspeak, the straitjacketed version of English from George Orwell’s novel 1984 (1949). In that dystopia, Newspeak was a language designed by ideological technicians to make politically incorrect thoughts literally inexpressible. Fewer people know that Orwell also worried about the poverty of our ordinary, unregimented vocabulary.
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