Tuesday, April 08, 2014

The Great Ptolemaic Smackdown

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R. Rorty:

"Much of the seventeenth century's notion of what it was to be a 'philosopher,' and much of the Enlightenment's notion of what it was to be 'rational,' turns on Galileo's being absolutely right and the church's being absolutely wrong."

Discuss.

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