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Being & Nothingness
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Jean Paul Sartre
jwp2
, August 18, 2014
Once again my copy of Sartre's _Being and Nothingness_ has not returned after I loaned it out--this time, though, Powell's has a hardback, with a dustcover. I can count on it being just like the others, though, just like in essence, just like in words, just like in density (I have had the thought while holding it that I would not need to put its feet in concrete were I to shove it off a pier), just like in maddening enabling challenge to make something of my life and to do it without any more bad faith than what is inevitable because of my being human. This is a fundamental document in Existentialism, but it is not an introduction. For that, try Wm Barrett's _Irrational Man_. If you do persevere, consider reading it in a comfortable chair, a strong glare-free light over your left shoulder, the opposite wall free of breakable objects.
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In Defense of Informal Logic
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D. S. Levi
jwp2
, July 22, 2014
You could do a Ph.D. in philosophy, teach philosophy for decades, write and teach on issues in logic and language, deal with deconstructionist attacks on the idea of argument, dip into rhetoric and into feminist attacks against logic, make your students read subversive works undermining dichotomies, lose sleep over how to teach critical thinking, regularly look for help thinking these matters through (I have), and never find anyone who has raised the issues or addressed them as knowledgeably as Don Levi has. Some who have studied under him (as I did at Oregon) have done a very little. Further, he makes a great many of the arguments to delineate the limits of logic as a method for evaluating arguments, and founds them on examples. For example, in "Why do illiterates do so badly in logic?" he takes up the research literature in psychology, anthropology, and education, on the lack of formal reasoning abilities among tribal peoples who cannot read or write, and uses the reports to support his claim that the researchers' formal methods make them less sensitive to the contexts and subtleties of actual arguments than are their research subjects. In other words, illiterates do so badly in logic because they are smarter about arguments than logicians are. This is a demanding (and poorly edited) book at a terribly high price which takes up fundamental questions about philosophy of arguments and logic. It has to be a standard reference for anyone appraising logic.
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