Friday, 16 January 2015
Bertrand Russell’s Theory of Types
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Theory of Types 1 Bertrand Russell’s theory of types seems quite commonsensical at a prima facie level. That is, different obje...
Tuesday, 13 January 2015
D.H. Mellor on Ontological Pluralism
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Rather than adopt a position of monism or dualism when it comes to properties, D.H. Mellor adopts what he calls a ‘pluralist’ approach...
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...
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