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Anna Marmodoro is the Clynelish single malt of the philosophy of powers universe. She takes on some of the most fundamental questions coming out of the classical authors, thinking about progress in philosophy, power metaphysics and the various puzzles that arise, property dualism and property monism, regresses, causality, Aristotle on perception, his subtle realism, the relationship between his metaphysics of perception and his metaphysics of substance, how all this links with contemporary theories and how the theory of the extended mind connects with philosophical issues regarding the Incarnation.

This one leaves a warm glow in the mind as winter bears down and darkness falls And is your preferred style lone brooding or the dialogic arguing — or something completely different from those? By classics I mean Plato, Aristotle and the like. This was back in Italy, where history of philosophy is a core component of the high school curriculum. These texts were both fascinating and challenging to me.

Reading these texts was an amazing training ground and multiplied my own why-questions exponentially.

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And because I felt that there were many of these questions that I could not answer, I wanted to do more, and more, and more philosophy. Coming to the second part of your question, making progress with philosophy seems to me to require both lone brooding and dialogical arguing. Philosophical results demands testing, as in any other subject of inquiry.

The way philosophical theories can be tested is by means of counter-examples, thought-experiment and the like. Here is where dialogical arguing plays and essential role in making progress. Additionally, big questions need to be examined from different angles, and teamwork is the most efficient way to achieve variety of expertise.

I do believe that philosophy is a science, with its own standards of methodological rigour; its lab for testing hypotheses; and its community of experts.