Sunday, 24 August 2014
Imprecise Linguistic Expressions vs. Precise Propositions
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The popular and general Fregean (etc.) idea is that because no particular expression of a proposition is identical to that proposition, ...
Tuesday, 19 August 2014
Externalism & Accurate/True Representations
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What is the basic internalist position? John Heil writes: "Descartes is imagining that your inner life could remain wholly unaffec...
Internalist Arguments Against Externalism
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There are many problems with externalism. For example, if narrow content doesn't completely encapsulate meaning, and we have to ta...
Does Externalism Beat Scepticism?
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John Heil says that instead of talking about different causal interactions between minds and world, why not talk about 'different co...
De Re & De Dicto Modalities & Counterparts
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A vital distinction in modal logic is the one between de dicto modalities and de re modalities. The former apply to dicta – that is...
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