This is the reference:
Contemporary philosopher William Vallicella writes, "Metaphilosophy is the philosophy of philosophy. It is itself a branch of philosophy, unlike the philosophy of science, which is not a branch of science, or the philosophy of religion, which is not a branch of religion."
It is statements like this that have made Vallicella such a hot ticket on the party circuit.
Well, not only did I get this book in my Christmas stocking, but it's been assigned for one of the courses I'm teaching!
If only I could become that famous.
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He does know
http://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher/2008/11/why-i-am-such-a.html
That was what I linked to.
Oh. I took the "I wonder if..." in your post to be original. My bad.
The Mav-P's appeared to switched gears lately: no only Ayn Rand and Airystotle, but the Boodha too! The Guru Mav.
Most people don't expect links to be titles of posts. They usually expect them to be in the body. I've seen confusion here about that fairly frequently.
someone bought me that book at a work gift exchange lol
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