In particular, Rorty finds in Dewey an anticipation of his own view of philosophy as the hand-maiden of a humanist politics, of a non-ontological view of the virtues of inquiry, of a holistic conception of human intellectual life, and of an anti-essentialist, historicist conception of philosophical thought.
After her undergraduate studies at Exeter University, she undertook a PhD at Jesus College, Cambridge, in the late 1980s and early 90s, influencing people with her trademark interest in all things human, her generosity of spirit and the ferocity of her intellectual inquiry.
Perhaps the biggest problem is that the system discourages intellectual inquiry, especially in the humanities.
Dawkins' narrowmindedness, his unshakeable belief that the entire history of human intellectual achievement was just a prelude to the codification of scientific inquiry, leads him to dismiss the insights offered not only by theology, but philosophy, history and art as well.
The culture of science promotes competition, and it promotes intellectual inquiry for its own sake rather than for human welfare.
Literatures elsewhere still offer a capacious mode of intellectual inquiry, one that can seamlessly accommodate the insights into human lives offered by history, philosophy and ethnography.
But the Delphic admonition "know thyself" still rings out as the great prime directive of intellectual inquiry, and there will always be a gaping hole in human self-knowledge until we develop a science of art.
As a living body of intellectual inquiry exploring profoundly complex questions, yes.
Poses classified as "passionate attitudes," they have the disquieting aspect of pornography masquerading as intellectual inquiry.
For years, that voice was the eternal enemy of intellectual inquiry.
