Tuesday, 6 January 2015
Should the Philosophy of Mind be Constrained by Science?
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It's often said that the philosophy of mind "should be constrained by science". However, much philosophy has always been...
Sunday, 30 November 2014
Roderick Chisholm’s ‘Philosophers and Ordinary Language’ (1951)
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Roderick Chisholm seems to suggest that in terms of the word ‘certain’ everything is only a matter of (prior) stipulation, not about w...
Saturday, 29 November 2014
20th-Century Causation (in Broad Outline)
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Why is causation seen as so important in (analytic) philosophy? Well, think about all the causal concepts there are: ‘produce’, ‘yield...
Tuesday, 25 November 2014
Allan Gibbard & Conceptual Essentialism
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“ Metaphysics aspires to understand reality as it is in itself, independently of the conceptual apparatus observers bring to bear on ...
Friday, 24 October 2014
Kant on Evidence-transcendence & Reason
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According to Immanuel Kant, God is experience- or evidence-transcendent . And, in this sense, he agrees with David Hume. According t...
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