CHANGING THE SUBJECT

Ask a question and it is reasonable to expect an answer or a confession of ignorance. But a philosopher may defy expectations. Confr onted by a standard question arising from a normal way of viewing the world, a philosopher may reply that the question is misguided, that to continue asking it is, at the extreme, to get trapped in a delusive hall of mirrors. According to Raymond Geuss, this attem pt to bypass or undercut conventional ways of thinking, to escape from the hall of mirrors, represents philosophy at its best and mo st chara...[Read more]