wittgenstein is great today

despite the stuffy room and kevin hill's aversion to breaks of any kind!!!!  it becomes more distracting as a slow tickle of individuals filter in and out and then---well a break would be wonderful!!!

so glad to be here

empiricists this morn was amazing as usual on schedule

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_Van_Orman_Quine

doctrine in quine

quant mech
non-bivalent logic

emp evidence
bivalence false

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tractatus_Logico-Philosophicus

ethics next
and meaningless

tractarian line
http://faculty.ed.uiuc.edu/burbules/papers/wittethics.html

collision of george moore and schopenhauer

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Moore_(novelist) augustus---a different one, the irish moore

versus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G._E._Moore


teh ethical philosopher


all metaethics is a response to him

utilitarianism as a species of ethical naturalism

morally obligatory for the greatest happiness for the greatest number

metaethics
ethical naturalism

hung with russel and wittgenstein

bloomsbury circle
virginia woolf
lytton strachey and the bloomsbury group