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Stephen Toulmin, a Philosopher and Educator, Dies at 87. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)
“He argued that if we want to understand questions of ethics, science and logic, we have to inquire into the everyday situations in which they arise.”
Sounds a bit like
casuistry, in the proper sense.
Michael Blowhard provides an introduction to Stephen Toulmin.
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ReplyDelete"I first encountered Toulmin when a junior at Bryn Mawr in 1977, at which point he must have been 55. He spoke on casuistry and canon law."
Score one for me.
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