Quote of the Day - Prodigy (09/24/2022)
“The obituaries all used some phrase along the lines of ‘a huge loss to British philosophy’. He had actually published very little: ten papers, some of them quite short. Yet he is also said to have influenced the direction of several branches of philosophy including logic, metaphysics, the philosophy of language and the philosophy of mind. He was most widely known for filmed dialogues made with our tutor, Sir Peter Strawson, for the Open University of which ‘What is Truth?’ is the best known. I think he was conscious of the absence of publication because he seemed distinctly irritated when I published a book before him though in no respect would I have considered us to be rivals; he was a perfectionist working with very complex ideas and I was neither of these things.”
- Lincoln Allison, “Gareth Evans — philosophy’s lost prodigy”