I hope you don't mind an inconsequential quibble, but radiocarbon dating relies on carbon-14, which has a rather short half-live (5,730 years), and is...
Hi csalisbuty, Thanks for raising up the problem of ancestrality. I wasn't acquainted with it -- at least not under this guise. I gave it some thought...
Hi Willow, I apologize for the long delay. Brassier's example of people pointing at Saturn, while not knowing what it is, is supposed to problematize ...
Haugeland's Pattern and Being was first published in the volume Dennett and His Critics, before it was reprinted in Haugeland's Having Thought: Essays...
Off topic (and spoiler): I only saw Von Trier's Dogville, and watched it two or three times. I was quite moved by it, emotionally, but also intellectu...
Yes, that's a fair characterization. You can also say that it's a form of strong correlationism. Your main question to me concerns the the 'existence'...
No. I was charging you with trying to advance a deductive argument in support of the validity of inductive reasoning. I don't think just pointing out ...
John, I think when you are trying to construct an argument to defend inductive reasoning, you may be involving yourself in a performative contradictio...
Hi Agustino, Yes, your figures for coal (60%), gas (11%) and cement production (8%) match what I can find in the IPCC Special Report on Carbon Dioxide...
Some more suggestions (all available online): John McDowell, Avoiding the Myth of the Given John Haugeland, Pattern and Being Susan Hurley, Varieties ...
This post strikes me as an excellent summary, much better than I could have done myself. I thought for a second that you had misconstrued Quines' trea...
Who are the other two? And who is being threatened with being bumped in fourth place? Regarding Dennett, I agree that Consciousness Explained is very ...
I'll make a few more comments later on, but meanwhile let me just provide some of the most relevant references. There is, of course, Putnam's The Coll...
This, and earlier paragraphs that I didn't quote, is very nicely put. I think you would enjoy Sebastian Rödl's Categories of the Temporal: An Inquiry ...
I am only quoting and responding to this paragraph because it nicely hones in on the ground of my perplexity with Brassier's idea of the thing itself,...
I am quoting myself because I want to preemptively address a possible objection, but I don't want to dilute the main point of the previous post. I was...
They are ontologically co-eval with the objects that fall under them. So the sortal concepts have the same ontological status, that is, the very same ...
Yes, you are right. I misused the term "naive realist". I meant to refer to the stance of some scientific realists, who I believe to be naive ;-). How...
This definition might be false and naive under one reading, and unobjectionable, though consistent with the kind of realist conceptualism that I take ...
I explained this to mean "exist as a P, where P is a sortal concept". It could be, for instance "exist as a bean". I didn't raise any issue about sort...
But there is a seeing as, a sortal concept, that makes something -- or rather singles it out as -- a bean. The question that can't possibly be answere...
Quite agreed. Brandom offers little improvement over Sellars on this issue, which is why I mostly rely on McDowell and Haugeland for suitable correcti...
Following Frege (or maybe, Wiggins' construal of Frege in his The Sense and Reference of Predicates: A Running Repair to Frege's Doctrine and a Plea f...
I've just finished reading Brassier's paper, so I can now comment. Brassier is attacking correlationism and other forms of anti-realism (including ide...
I think this is rather nicely put. I had missed this response earlier. Let me just make clear that I agree with your attack on the presupposition of t...
I'm even later to this party. But since this text makes contact both with preoccupations of continental philosophy that I am much ignorant of, but fin...
This document expresses your stances on several separable philosophical topics (e.g. atheism, free will and hedonism). No doubt, you wish to integrate...
New readers of Aristotle (or Leibnitz, or Hume, or Kant, or Wittgenstein, etc.) produce new insights all the time! This is because their ideas are con...
Your post raises many issues and I will comment on just one of them. This concerns your idea of a dualism of stuff, or material constituent, and arran...
Hi John, You don't need much acquaintance with the current state of neuroscience in order to follow this debate. Philosophical Foundations of Neurosci...
Yes, though Aristotle's notions of form and matter, and of act and power, are more general and abstract, and thus applicable to a broader range of emp...
No, the thesis is quite different. One main point of Wiggins' theory of the sortal dependency of identity precisely is to deny any simple dualism of m...
You misunderstand. I wasn't arguing that we are providing criteria for distinguishing objects that do persist from objects that don't persist at all. ...
It is unclear to me that such a distinction is intelligible. It's like saying that one is entitled to say that some tomato is red while not being enti...
Another way to phrase this would be to ask: how can we come to detect interesting patterns in the empirical world, patterns, that is, that are relevan...
Yes, that's how it sounds to me too. TheWillowOfDarkness seems to be defending the metaphysical stance that Putnam argued against and labeled 'metaphy...
Many of the landmark papers on meaning and reference from 20th century analytic philosophers are collected in the book Meaning and Reference, edited b...
What you say here would be correct, it seems to be, if you would restrict it to (Fregean) objects and attributes (Fregean concepts); and drop the idea...
It is nevertheless and essential paper and I second your recommendation. I started typing in some comments about its relevance and its relation to the...
Some things (1) are of no general interest because they are trite and trivial. This is different from them (2) not arousing general interest just beca...
No doubt. But one of the main points that the authors make is that there was until recently an expectation that a philosopher should have a special in...
The authors lament the movement of philosophy away from the impetus to cultivate wisdom -- conceived in broadly moral terms -- and towards cleverness,...
Don't sweat it, though. I've just finished re-reading it. It's much more difficult than I remembered it to be. It is likely that I had earlier read an...
True, but what is at issue in discussions about truth, meaning, knowledge and correspondance aren't the qualitative feels of the experiences (i.e. wha...
Although that issue seems resolved now, it is important when discussing about language and meaning to always be very clear on the use/mention distinct...
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