Donald Davidson, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective
... Social Aspect of Language’ (1994), and ‘Seeing Through Language’ (1997). The first is famous for claiming that ‘there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed’ (TLH, p. 107). This has been taken to be incompatible with David ...
... Social Aspect of Language’ (1994), and ‘Seeing Through Language’ (1997). The first is famous for claiming that ‘there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed’ (TLH, p. 107). This has been taken to be incompatible with David ...
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... Aristotle (On Interpretation 1:9) noted that the past is “fixed” in a way in which the future is not. Whatever has been, cannot (now) have been otherwise. Consequently, any statement about past facts is unequivocally true or false, regardless of whether its truth value is known or not. The same is n ...
... Aristotle (On Interpretation 1:9) noted that the past is “fixed” in a way in which the future is not. Whatever has been, cannot (now) have been otherwise. Consequently, any statement about past facts is unequivocally true or false, regardless of whether its truth value is known or not. The same is n ...
Introduction: the growth of ignorance?
... knowledges seriously and examining their potential contribution to peoples’ material, intellectual and general welfare. One feature which many of the contributors elaborate is the link of knowledge and agency. Local knowledges often constitute people as potential agents. For instance in healing, the ...
... knowledges seriously and examining their potential contribution to peoples’ material, intellectual and general welfare. One feature which many of the contributors elaborate is the link of knowledge and agency. Local knowledges often constitute people as potential agents. For instance in healing, the ...
Ethics bedfellows
... relevant (though maybe he does not know that he knows). However, at some point someone presents him with these cases, and it now seems to John that mere spatial proximity is morally irrelevant. Does this alter his epistemic situation insofar as he is trying to make up his mind about what to believe? ...
... relevant (though maybe he does not know that he knows). However, at some point someone presents him with these cases, and it now seems to John that mere spatial proximity is morally irrelevant. Does this alter his epistemic situation insofar as he is trying to make up his mind about what to believe? ...
deductive reasoning
... aims, undergoes historical changes. Option 2: Although there was once a time before philosophy, philosophy does not change. ...
... aims, undergoes historical changes. Option 2: Although there was once a time before philosophy, philosophy does not change. ...
Relevance Logic - John MacFarlane
... This is “irrelevant,” and relevance logicians want to reject it. One way to reject it is to restrict the Reit move in line 3. We’ve seen a similar strategy in the natural deduction rules for modal operators, which use subproofs restricting reiteration. We can get the same effect here by allowing onl ...
... This is “irrelevant,” and relevance logicians want to reject it. One way to reject it is to restrict the Reit move in line 3. We’ve seen a similar strategy in the natural deduction rules for modal operators, which use subproofs restricting reiteration. We can get the same effect here by allowing onl ...
1st Prize: Cherry Dicko
... In relation to Brexit, O’Neill says campaigners ‘did not provide the basic means for voters to judge…’5. Judging is an ability, so here O’Neill implies that the public needed a sort of informed ability knowledge in order to give informed consent – a sort of propositional knowledge from which to exer ...
... In relation to Brexit, O’Neill says campaigners ‘did not provide the basic means for voters to judge…’5. Judging is an ability, so here O’Neill implies that the public needed a sort of informed ability knowledge in order to give informed consent – a sort of propositional knowledge from which to exer ...
PHI 515 Quine
... Here’s another try at unpacking the notion of analyticity: First suppose that all sentences carry with them their own conditions of verification (or confirmation). Then we might understand as analytically true any statement that could be confirmed by any experience whatsoever (or possibly, couldn’t ...
... Here’s another try at unpacking the notion of analyticity: First suppose that all sentences carry with them their own conditions of verification (or confirmation). Then we might understand as analytically true any statement that could be confirmed by any experience whatsoever (or possibly, couldn’t ...
Occasion-Sensitivity
... properties like being purple, they are properties of instances of sentences which are not inherited from the sentences instanced. So OS is not just the view that the ‘Travis case’ phenomenon afflicts every closed sentence of language used to speak about empirical states of affairs. It is that this i ...
... properties like being purple, they are properties of instances of sentences which are not inherited from the sentences instanced. So OS is not just the view that the ‘Travis case’ phenomenon afflicts every closed sentence of language used to speak about empirical states of affairs. It is that this i ...
Logical Theories of Intention and the Database Perspective
... structure, and action attitudes capture his inclination towards taking certain actions. In a typical theory, the action attitudes mediate between the informational and motivational attitudes; the agent’s choice of action is dictates by his wants and beliefs. Into these two broad camps fall notions s ...
... structure, and action attitudes capture his inclination towards taking certain actions. In a typical theory, the action attitudes mediate between the informational and motivational attitudes; the agent’s choice of action is dictates by his wants and beliefs. Into these two broad camps fall notions s ...
Markie, Speckles, and Classical Foundationalism
... forty-eight speckled appearance. When it does, I can be directly acquainted with the relevant experience but have no justification for believing that I am appeared to fortyeight-speckled-ly. As Markie points out, even if in such a situation I whimsically believe that the experience is one of forty-e ...
... forty-eight speckled appearance. When it does, I can be directly acquainted with the relevant experience but have no justification for believing that I am appeared to fortyeight-speckled-ly. As Markie points out, even if in such a situation I whimsically believe that the experience is one of forty-e ...
M METHO ODOL LOGY
... everything that happened in the past, but what could be said about the past. There is a basic dilemma between whether history is a study of human affairs in the past or that of the natural events. By discovering manuscripts or by recovering the details of any significant happening, a historian may c ...
... everything that happened in the past, but what could be said about the past. There is a basic dilemma between whether history is a study of human affairs in the past or that of the natural events. By discovering manuscripts or by recovering the details of any significant happening, a historian may c ...
Asian Philosophy CH. 10 of AP
... In order for one perception to be judged as being false, there must be a body of claims that one accepts as being true. One cannot judge that a prior perception was false unless one has sufficient warrant from another set of beliefs to judge that the prior perception was false. Those alternative bel ...
... In order for one perception to be judged as being false, there must be a body of claims that one accepts as being true. One cannot judge that a prior perception was false unless one has sufficient warrant from another set of beliefs to judge that the prior perception was false. Those alternative bel ...
Philosophy 324A Philosophy of Logic 2016 Note Eighteen
... (4) The place where Lygos was is subsumed by the place where Istanbul now is. Over time there have been different namings of the various habitations at that site. It turns out that, like everything else in human life, names have life-spans. If Sally wants to know whether there is jet-service to Ista ...
... (4) The place where Lygos was is subsumed by the place where Istanbul now is. Over time there have been different namings of the various habitations at that site. It turns out that, like everything else in human life, names have life-spans. If Sally wants to know whether there is jet-service to Ista ...
Knowledge and belief : an agent-oriented view
... procrastination’, for it is necessary only to select a set-theoretic structure and assign denotations to the terms ‘Quadruplicity’ and ‘procrastination’ and to the predicate ‘drinks’. Whether the resulting interpretation turns out to be useful is another matter entirely. The new paradigm helped unde ...
... procrastination’, for it is necessary only to select a set-theoretic structure and assign denotations to the terms ‘Quadruplicity’ and ‘procrastination’ and to the predicate ‘drinks’. Whether the resulting interpretation turns out to be useful is another matter entirely. The new paradigm helped unde ...
Kripke, A Priori Knowledge, Necessity and Contingency
... Hesperus = the star right there in the morning sky. Phosphorus = the star right there in the evening sky. The star right there in the morning sky = the star right there in the evening sky. Hesperus = Phosphorus ...
... Hesperus = the star right there in the morning sky. Phosphorus = the star right there in the evening sky. The star right there in the morning sky = the star right there in the evening sky. Hesperus = Phosphorus ...
Intuition, Belief, and Rational Criticisability
... agents sometimes come to believe that p is false (for instance by learning the proof that it is) while still having the intuition that p. But this does not yet constitute a counterexample to Entailment. Coming to believe that a proposition is false is not the same as shedding a belief that it is tru ...
... agents sometimes come to believe that p is false (for instance by learning the proof that it is) while still having the intuition that p. But this does not yet constitute a counterexample to Entailment. Coming to believe that a proposition is false is not the same as shedding a belief that it is tru ...
Explaining the disquotational principle
... to draw from the examples Kripke discusses, however. One can derive a contradiction from Kripke’s examples only by assuming, in addition to the disquotational principle, either the converse of the principle or some principle to the effect that anyone with contradictory beliefs will be in a position ...
... to draw from the examples Kripke discusses, however. One can derive a contradiction from Kripke’s examples only by assuming, in addition to the disquotational principle, either the converse of the principle or some principle to the effect that anyone with contradictory beliefs will be in a position ...
ARISTOTLE`S THEORY OF TRUTH
... (logos) in the ‘weaving together o f forms with one another’ (Sophist 259e). A little earlier in the same dialogue (253b-c) the question of significant discourse is raised (a question o f course quite distinct from the question of the possibility of discourse per se). Some science is needed which ca ...
... (logos) in the ‘weaving together o f forms with one another’ (Sophist 259e). A little earlier in the same dialogue (253b-c) the question of significant discourse is raised (a question o f course quite distinct from the question of the possibility of discourse per se). Some science is needed which ca ...
Do Belief Reports Report Beliefs?
... Compositionality—it holds that the constituents of a ‘that’-clause also refer to linguistic items—but, as with Frege’s view, its denial that they refer to their ordinary referents is a naked violation of Innocence. Historically, the quotationalist-sententialist view seems to have been motivated by a ...
... Compositionality—it holds that the constituents of a ‘that’-clause also refer to linguistic items—but, as with Frege’s view, its denial that they refer to their ordinary referents is a naked violation of Innocence. Historically, the quotationalist-sententialist view seems to have been motivated by a ...
Gresham Lectures 2016-17 Divinity Lecture 1 Does science rob
... proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief ...
... proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief ...
In the history of philosophy, Francis Bacon is credited with the
... affect (i.e., emotional knowledge). Respecting and understanding this division of implicit knowledge is important, Shotwell writes, because: Even theorists who attend to one or the other of these forms of knowledge collapse many forms of implicit understanding into the sort they examine. Doing this ...
... affect (i.e., emotional knowledge). Respecting and understanding this division of implicit knowledge is important, Shotwell writes, because: Even theorists who attend to one or the other of these forms of knowledge collapse many forms of implicit understanding into the sort they examine. Doing this ...
Knowing justice and acting justly What is the source of virtue in
... So Plato’s argument that philosophers should be rulers depends on his arguments about how knowledge and virtue are linked. In the handout on ‘Philosophers, knowledge, and virtue’, we raised the objection that it is not certain that studying philosophy and the Forms will make someone virtuous. A seco ...
... So Plato’s argument that philosophers should be rulers depends on his arguments about how knowledge and virtue are linked. In the handout on ‘Philosophers, knowledge, and virtue’, we raised the objection that it is not certain that studying philosophy and the Forms will make someone virtuous. A seco ...
Creative Reasoning
... Klein has consistently and forthrightly acknowledged insights from not only foundationalism, but also coherentism and Pyrrhonian skepticism. Aikin adopts elements of foundationalism. ...
... Klein has consistently and forthrightly acknowledged insights from not only foundationalism, but also coherentism and Pyrrhonian skepticism. Aikin adopts elements of foundationalism. ...