Evidence receipt / belief
Published · transcript-backedElijah Millgram: belief
16 Jun 2021 Conversations with Tyler Elijah Millgram on the Philosophical Life
“You won’t be surprised to hear that if there’s a domain in which I think I have a special experience, meaning experience that most people don’t have, it’s in philosophy.”
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- Elijah Millgram
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- belief
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- 16 Jun 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Last two questions. At the very beginning, you mentioned the importance of one’s own experience for practical reasoning. If you had to sum up in a nutshell what you think you, as a human being and philosopher, have a special experience of that you draw upon, how would you describe that? You won’t be surprised to hear that if there’s a domain in which I think I have a special experience, meaning experience that most people don’t have, it’s in philosophy. I have something like 40 years of training in, “OK, this is promising. This is going to pan out into something interesting. This will come together in a really cool way. Oh no, that one’s not going anywhere.” It’s very specialized. Not a lot of people have a use for it, but it’s unusual and I’ve got it. Last question. Why do you view aesthetics as so central to philosophy?…
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