I don't know if this is a UK/US thing - but the undergrad philosophy course pg didn't seem to touch upon things that were happening in modern philosophy judging

I don't know if this is a UK/US thing - but the undergrad philosophy course pg didn't seem to touch upon things that were happening in modern philosophy judging by the essay. I did a contextual course in cognitive philosophy as an undergrad back in the late eighties (roughly equivalent to a minor in US universities) - so only about two or three years after pg graduated. Even in that - a minor in a narrow chunk of philosophy - we were exposed to modern philosophers - people like Daniel Dennett (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Dennett), Andy Clark (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clark http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Clark) and many more. All of which were looking at work coming from the sciences to ground their thinking - and indeed suggest courses for further research (look at Dan Dennett's influence on cognitive psychologists for example). There's a whole branch of Philosophy (Experimental Philosophy - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_philosophy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_philosophy) that's been going since 2000 with antecedents long before that. At the time pg wrote this essay experimental philosopher Joshua Knobe (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Knobe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Knobe) was being written about in the NY Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09wwln-idealab-t.html?_r=0 http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/09/magazine/09wwln-idealab-t....). (Freaky PS... in double checking roughly when pg was born to see when he would have been doing his undergrad philosophy course - I see he was born in Weymouth, Dorset, UK.... about half an hour from where I live now ;-)