This short essay isn’t really about laughing. It’s about behaviourist explanations of all sorts of different human actions. It’s just that R...

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  According to Bertrand Russell (at least at one point in his career), not only is a belief not knowledge if it can't be substantiated...

What is it, precisely, that Richard Rorty thinks analytic philosophy is trying to achieve? Let us take the ‘linguistic turn’ for star...