Reputation
Colin McGinn
- The Secret Connection: Causation, Realism and David Hume by Galen Strawson
Oxford, 291 pp, £32.50, August 1989, ISBN 0 19 824853 9 - J.L. Austin by G.J. Warnock
Routledge, 165 pp, £30.00, August 1989, ISBN 0 415 02962 7
Philosophical reputations come and go – they surge and gutter – according largely to the prevailing intellectual climate, and are only tenuously tied to the actual merits of the views put forward by the reputand in question. To have a reputation is to have something perishable and fleeting, an imposition from without, no sooner bestowed than withdrawn.
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