Tuesday 18 October 2016

An explanation of this blog's name.

At the end of his 1959 essay "A Reply to My Critics", in in Paul A. Schilpp (ed.) The Philosophy of C. D. Broad (New York: Tudor Publishing Company) pp. 711-830, C.D. Broad writes:
"... though philosophies are never refuted, they rapidly go out of fashion, and the kind of philosophy which I have practised has become antiquated without having yet acquired the interest of a collector's piece."
I don't know if that was true when Broad wrote it in 1956, but it's not true now. At least, I find these pieces interesting enough to collect; as the placement of the apostrophe suggests, I hope that others will too.