Tuesday, 9 June 2015
Names & Essences: Ruth Marcus on Quine’s Kripke
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Saul Kripke claims that the statement “ Aristotle might not have been a philosopher.” isn't necessarily false because at oth...
Friday, 5 June 2015
Bertrand Russell’s Paradox
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What is the primary feature of Bertrand Russell’s Paradox? It's one of self-reference. Thus it's like the Liar Paradox in which...
Thursday, 4 June 2015
Quine's 'On What There Is' (1948)
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What is Existence? The American philosopher W.V.O. Quine (1908–2000) discussed what he called the “old Platonic riddle of non-being” (or ...
Wednesday, 3 June 2015
Umberto Eco as Philosophical Realist?
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It's strange (at least to me) that a fashionable Continental philosopher should advance what can be deemed to be a commonsensical...
Sunday, 31 May 2015
Wittgenstein on Doubt
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Ludwig Wittgenstein’s case against scepticism (or at least against global scepticism ) is simple. We can't doubt without exempt...
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