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Response to Wilson

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

Bernie Koenig
Affiliation:
Fanshawe College

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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1988

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References

1 Rorty, Richard, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature (Princeton, NJ: Princeton Univer sity Press, 1980).Google Scholar

2 Wilson, Fred, “Hume's Defence of Science”, Dialogue 24/4 (12 1985), 611628.Google Scholar

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6 Thus philosophers should spend more time reading anthropology. See, for example, Fox, Robin, Encounters with Anthropology (New York: Dell, 1975)Google Scholar and Harris, Marvin, Cannibals and Kings (New York: Random House, 1977)Google Scholar. In two papers that I read to the International Medieval Congress in 1984 and 1987, I attempted to apply the work of Fox and Harris to a Natural Law theory in hope of developing a contemporary basis for a Natural Law approach to ethics. One of the reasons I found Rorty and Wilson's work so convincing was their emphasis on culture.

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