A.W. Moore

A.W. Moore is professor of philosophy at Oxford. The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things appeared earlier this year.

Letter

The Cat’s Whiskers

30 October 1997

I found it hard at times to recognise my book Points of View in Jerry Fodor’s review (LRB, 30 October). The fact that three of the first six paragraphs were devoted largely to urging on me a distinction between the perspectival and the subjective which I am myself at pains to draw did not augur well. But I want to focus on Fodor’s claim that I have an account of representation from which it follows...

One can believe in moral progress without accusing past ages of wickedness or stupidity (though there is plenty of both in all ages). Perhaps progress can occur only through a series of historical stages,...

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Cat’s Whiskers

Jerry Fodor, 30 October 1997

Proust’s Swann is obsessed by what he doesn’t know about Odette. His anguish has no remedy; finding out more only adds to what he does know about her. Since Kant, lots of philosophers...

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