Daniel Garber (philosopher)

Daniel Garber (born 1949) is an American philosopher. Quotes The standard modern style is from Oxbridge and the German Logical positivists. The Oxbridge approach is very presentist and antihistorical: you read the classics––Plato, Descartes, Hume––as if they were written today. The logical positivists believe that the whole history of philosophy should be taught in the history department, not the philosophy department, just as the history of science is not in the physics department. I think both are wrong. It’s liberating to realize our way of looking at the world is a very recent thing. I think there’s nothing better for science students than to study the history of science. You realize how distinctively 20th or 21st century our thinking is, how differently people thought about these problems back then... I think about the way things are being done now. When I was a student people didn’t have the opportunity to do this. External links Category:Living people Category:1949 births Category:Philosophers from the United States Category:Harvard University alumni Category:Princeton University faculty Category:University of Chicago faculty Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences