Claims, and the sentences used to make those claims, (or express the content of doxastic states such as beliefs or intentions) are different things. C...
Deflationary conceptions of truth, or coherentist accounts such as Davidson's theory of meaning, which also centrally depend on Tarsky's T-schema, don...
There seems to me to be a fundamental tension in Quine's thinking about ontology, between his commitment to pragmatism (and hence to ontological relat...
If we would ever arrive at a definitive consensus in any field of philosophy, then that would be the death of that field, it seems to me. Or, maybe, i...
One could suggest that those academics have the quite ordinary power to think from within a different box, that is, that they are reasoning under the ...
I found a compact definition of neo-liberalism on Quora, answering a question regarding the way it differs from neo-conservatism. The description seem...
I don't have much to say about Paul Churchland, who seems to have inherited the worst from his much more interesting teacher, Wilfrid Sellars. Sellars...
Hi John, Very nice post. The world/environment distinction that I use is borrowed from John McDowell who himself borrowed it from Gadamer... who himse...
Hi John, I don't think Damasio's inference from the observation of brain damaged patients is conclusive. It would be conclusive if we could fully ascr...
Cavacava, I agree with much of what you say, but would like to stress a categorical difference between the way in which non-rational animals spontaneo...
John McDowell has an account of the conceptually structured content of perceptual experience -- Kantian in spirit -- whereby he speaks of experiences ...
I have been a member quite early but haven't posted anything significant yet. This is in part because I have been busy but also in part because it is ...
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