Tim Crane Quotes

#1. I have a general moral: great philosophers may be great, but that is not a reason to follow them. Don't be a follower. Work it out for yourself.

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#2. One philosophically fascinating aspect of Catholicism is the very strange conception of reality it presents (the incarnation, the eucharist, judgement day etc.).

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#3. Naturalism is a methodological rather than a metaphysical view. It's because I am a naturalist, actually, that I am sceptical about physicalism.

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#4. Catholicism is the most philosophical branch of Christianity.

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#5. Since I don't believe in externalism, I don't think it can explain consciousness!

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#6. I had abandoned Catholicism, but even during my short militant atheist period I maintained an interest in western religious art and music.

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#7. The wine itself has aesthetic value; but what it is for a wine to have aesthetic value cannot be understood without making reference to the experience to tasting it

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#8. Unlike art which contains a message, wine conveys nothing, it has no intellectual or cognitive content

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#9. I'm not a militant atheist, just an atheist. In fact, in a largely atheist country like the UK I think it's a bit silly to be a militant atheist.

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#10. Taken as hypotheses, religious claims do very badly. Yet the striking fact is that this does not worry Christians.

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#11. Wine is not discovered but made: it is an artifact that can be appraised that can be appraised aesthetically

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#12. Although a lot of my work on the mind has been rather abstract and philosophical, I'm interested in psychology and neuroscience and I don't think there are any principled distinctions between the kind of knowledge we get from science and the knowledge we get from philosophy.

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