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In reply to boydstun. Hi Stephen. I never heard of Boulter and don’t have his book. But your report of it makes me think that we might divide philosophical approaches that could be called common sense into two varieties, “strong” and …

Good. I have a Kant session during that slot at Pacific, but if they have a failure, I’ll check your session out. Because I’m retired, I was able to attend Eastern, Central, and now Pacific. I really appreciate Zoom for this. Saved all that…

This coming Monday, April 5th, the Molinari Society will be holding its mostly-annual Pacific Symposium in conjunction with the Pacific Division of the American Philosophical Association via Zoom (5-10 April). This panel has some overlap, both in personnel and in content, with the one we did in January for the Eastern APA, but it’s not…

In reply to boydstun. I’m risking running on too much about Common Sense Philosophy, but I’ll like to add that common sense beliefs on the philosophy-pertinent lists of Reid and of Moore seem often to be so far removed from common sense as …

David, there is a 2007 book on my shelf titled The Rediscovery of Common Sense Philosophy. It is the work Stephen Boulter, and he defends an updated, more sophisticated version of what could yet be reasonably called Common Sense Philosophy. I don’t kno…