Tyler Cowen: belief

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…Oh, I think Plato rated them highly, so there’s the question what rating he had. You read any philosopher, you read Kant, you read Adam Smith, you read Hume, and you’re looking for the arguments. But in Plato, you don’t need to look because Socrates was like, so do you think this? Yes. Do you think this? Yes. And that just shows you what the argument is. But I think taking that in, it’s easier to take that in visually than through hearing. You gave a recent talk, I think at Princeton, as to why philosophers refute each other so much. As a method for doing philosophy, is one philosopher trying to refute another, say through the medium of a public talk? Do we do too much of that or too little in philosophy? I actually ended up giving a different talk at Princeton, but I did give that talk at Michigan.…

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