https://as.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu-as/philosophy/documents/faculty-documents/boghossian/Boghossian_Rule-Following-Considerations.pdf A summary and sur...
Well, thanks for the info about Chess. I wasn't aware that Chess.com was not compliant with FIDE. And so long as we agree that fallibilism is not the ...
Good questions. Yeah, I think the deflationary approach tells us a lot about how "truth" works. But what it doesn't do, and what folk want, is not wha...
On the issue of Davidson, I just came across this approach that follows Davidson's program by replacing first-order logic with lambda calculus. http:/...
The hard part is getting other folk to see the import of Kripke's joke. Your respondents don't appear to get the argument. Kudos to you for working on...
Some folk seem to think language games involve only language. They don't. Have a look at the example in §1. The language game is an activity involving...
A good series of posts. But I'll take issue with this bit. It's what I do. Don't feel obligated to reply. I gave a brief intro to deflation above. I t...
Pretty much. My first stop would be Anthony Kenny, mostly because it is approachable and complete. Then to Anscombe and Malcolm for corrections. Of th...
Yeah, sure. As time goes on the interpretations of Witti become increasingly distorted. I think the Pyrrhonian reading misses much of what he had to s...
Ha, is that so? Is it true? Or is it just your belief? And if it is just a belief of yours, why should we pay it any attention? And if you believe it,...
Why not? Seems that "real definitions" are mere stipulations. Is it a better pair of scissors because it is sharp, or because it is harder to cut your...
Might be best to keep Kripkenstien to his own thread. Consider: And around §500, as well as §522ff. When we muse about talking pots, we are playing a ...
That doesn't follow. Indeed, it's not even grammatical. And yet here you are, with a presumably finite method, telling us about will. The contradictio...
I hope I beat the same drum to a different rhythm. There was a recent article about a metastudy of referencing in philosophical papers, looking at gro...
The trouble with criticism of naturalism, of course, is that in it's own area of expertise, science is pretty much right. Where we agree is that scien...
Yep. Those who get past first year do so by criticising what they were told in first year. Those who get past being an undergrad do so by criticising ...
:wink: The most common congenital deformity of philosophy is "making shit up". The remedy is exposing one's ideas to criticism. The natural home of ph...
Fucksake. As if materialism and dualism were juxtaposed, and paralleled idealism and materialism. That's just poor . The sort of thing you might get b...
Materialism has been out of fashion since Newton. The absurd presumption is that we are obliged to choose between two defunct cannons. I ran a thread ...
I've nothing to say here that I haven't said previously. Idealism has been moribund since the end of the century before last, and of little more than ...
Think it's a battered sav, a Dagwood dog, fare found mostly at country shows, miscellaneous animal body parts blended into a paste and deep fried, ser...
Again, not the approach I would adopt. There are good reasons to think physical reductionism wrong - to say the least - without having an alternative ...
Sure, and many an analytic philosopher, too. Apart from the favourites of the retired engineers hereabouts, few folk would advocate that sort of reduc...
Yeah, it's a puzzle. I mention the problem of other minds and you post in answer stuff about rules. Regardless of Frank, I remain in the dark as to re...
The Principle of Relativity urges that we look for explanations of such generality that they are consistent for all observers. That is not an unreason...
Too late for that. Trouble is, it’s so unclear what idealism is. That’s why the discussion moved on to antirealism. But yes, idealism has difficulty i...
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