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Pierre-Normand

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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...
January 13, 2016 at 05:24
I also wish Nagase would pay us a visit sometimes. That's part of his domain of expertise.
January 12, 2016 at 23:57
Deflationary conceptions of truth, or coherentist accounts such as Davidson's theory of meaning, which also centrally depend on Tarsky's T-schema, don...
January 12, 2016 at 23:42
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...
January 12, 2016 at 01:48
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...
January 12, 2016 at 01:10
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 ...
January 11, 2016 at 06:24
I found a compact definition of neo-liberalism on Quora, answering a question regarding the way it differs from neo-conservatism. The description seem...
January 11, 2016 at 03:33
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...
January 10, 2016 at 23:27
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...
January 10, 2016 at 23:08
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...
January 10, 2016 at 03:57
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...
January 10, 2016 at 03:03
John McDowell has an account of the conceptually structured content of perceptual experience -- Kantian in spirit -- whereby he speaks of experiences ...
January 10, 2016 at 00:27
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 ...
January 09, 2016 at 18:01
Dmitri Shostakovitch, Symphony no.7, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein.
December 15, 2015 at 05:46
The paper is a bit repetitive but contains many nuggets of wisdom nonetheless.
October 29, 2015 at 00:43