"A philosopher may try to prove the truth of something he believed before he was a philosopher, but even if he succeed…"

"If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive…"

"[Popper's skepticism about scientific truth in The Logic of Scientific Discovery is] that kind of reaction, of which …"

"The proprietor of a pornographic book shop may be dimly conscious of a debt to the author of Areopagitica, but Milton…"

"The Faculty of Arts at the University of Sydney is a disaster-area, and not of the merely passive kind, like a bombed…"

"From an Enlightenment or Positivist point of view, which is Hume's point of view, and mine, there is simply no avoidi…"

"Plato – that scourge of the human mind, whom we have to thank for persuading philosophers for 2400 years, and more ye…"

"Let us never forget, as all conventional history of philosophy conspires to make us forget, what the ‘great thinkers’…"

"Muggeridge: ‘Positivism will deprive man, not only of all objects of religious reverence, but of all objects of the r…"

"Did you even know, until now, that human thought was capable of this degree of corruption? Yet Hegel grew out of Kant…"