Hilary Putnam (in this work) isn't talking about what words mean when taken separately from what he calls ‘interpretation’. He isn...

  It's often said that causal connections aren't logically necessary – not even necessary causal connections. This is the central...

Some say that syntax is the basis of both human intelligence and consciousness itself. Others say that language is the basis of both th...

What, exactly, was so wrong with reason in the post-Enlightenment era? It can easily be forgotten (especially by postmodernists) that ...

This essay is mainly about Keith Donnellan’s paper ‘Speaking of Nothing’, and its defence of a causal theory of reference . The American phi...