One evening, at dinner after a talk at Tufts, Daniel Dennett spoke to me the most important words I've ever heard. When I said I liked the work of Robert Brandom, he told me, "You know, there's two kinds of normativity. There's Pittsburgh normativity, and then there's real normativity.
There's Pittsburgh normativity, and then there's real normativity. " I have no idea what he meant; he wasn't able to finish speaking, and so I have been pondering these words ever since. Daniel Dennett with a fresh-faced, twenty-three-year-old Flo, before the profession had taken the light from her eyesFor some reason, people do not like Daniel Dennett.
Daniel Dennett with a fresh-faced, twenty-three-year-old Flo, before the profession had taken the light from her eyesFor some reason, people do not like Daniel Dennett. I think the reason is because he solved the philosophy of mind, ideas which need to be suppressed by the Australian government if they want to avoid massive job losses for their philosophers.