Popper and Xenophanes - ORCA
... It is next appropriate to summarise Popper’s commentary on this fragment. As he remarks, this passage goes beyond asserting the conjectural character of human knowledge, and presents a theory of objective knowledge, for which, even if you or I may say something true, neither you nor I nor anyone wil ...
... It is next appropriate to summarise Popper’s commentary on this fragment. As he remarks, this passage goes beyond asserting the conjectural character of human knowledge, and presents a theory of objective knowledge, for which, even if you or I may say something true, neither you nor I nor anyone wil ...
Most Ordinary Counterfactuals are (Probably) False
... can’t both be right. (In fact, how else can I merely deny what you said, rather than committing myself to something stronger than the denial? That is another consideration in favor of the ‘would/might’ duality.) Similarly, I may assert ‘Toss Heads’ and later come to retract it, so that I have t ...
... can’t both be right. (In fact, how else can I merely deny what you said, rather than committing myself to something stronger than the denial? That is another consideration in favor of the ‘would/might’ duality.) Similarly, I may assert ‘Toss Heads’ and later come to retract it, so that I have t ...
Ethical and Epistemic Egoism and the Ideal of Autonomy Linda
... powers to infer that a particular belief of a particular other person is probably true, but there is no difference in principle between that inference and many other inferences she makes routinely and routinely trusts as an extreme egoist. So by using her own powers she sees that she is permitted t ...
... powers to infer that a particular belief of a particular other person is probably true, but there is no difference in principle between that inference and many other inferences she makes routinely and routinely trusts as an extreme egoist. So by using her own powers she sees that she is permitted t ...
Epistemological Vs - Birkbeck, University of London
... But why all this creative reconstruction, all this make believe? The stimulation of his sensory receptors is all the evidence anybody has had to go on, ultimately, in arriving at his picture of the world. Why not just see how this construction really proceeds? Why not settle for psychology! (Quine ( ...
... But why all this creative reconstruction, all this make believe? The stimulation of his sensory receptors is all the evidence anybody has had to go on, ultimately, in arriving at his picture of the world. Why not just see how this construction really proceeds? Why not settle for psychology! (Quine ( ...
Towart 1 - Personal.psu.edu
... casualty of our time that defies comprehension is the death of truth. By denying absolutes and eradicating all points of reference by which we test veracity, our civilization has entered terra incognita on matters of the greatest importance even for survival.”3 How is it, then, that we understand wh ...
... casualty of our time that defies comprehension is the death of truth. By denying absolutes and eradicating all points of reference by which we test veracity, our civilization has entered terra incognita on matters of the greatest importance even for survival.”3 How is it, then, that we understand wh ...
ABSOLUTE TRUTH AS CONTRASTED WITH
... casualty of our time that defies comprehension is the death of truth. By denying absolutes and eradicating all points of reference by which we test veracity, our civilization has entered terra incognita on matters of the greatest importance even for survival.”3 How is it, then, that we understand wh ...
... casualty of our time that defies comprehension is the death of truth. By denying absolutes and eradicating all points of reference by which we test veracity, our civilization has entered terra incognita on matters of the greatest importance even for survival.”3 How is it, then, that we understand wh ...
An Argument For A Neutral Free Logic
... existential claim is best understood as a substitutional quantifier rather than as an objectual quantifier. This objection would undermine the ontological commitment of the sentence because the semantic rule for a substitutional, existential quantifier makes a sentence prefixed by it true in case th ...
... existential claim is best understood as a substitutional quantifier rather than as an objectual quantifier. This objection would undermine the ontological commitment of the sentence because the semantic rule for a substitutional, existential quantifier makes a sentence prefixed by it true in case th ...
Attitudinal Objects and the Distinction between Actions and Products
... acts do not have the right properties to provide the sort of entity suitable to play the role of propositions. Cognitive acts do not have the right representational, normative, and evaluative properties, and they do not enter similarity relation in the appropriate way. Furthermore, they are not enti ...
... acts do not have the right properties to provide the sort of entity suitable to play the role of propositions. Cognitive acts do not have the right representational, normative, and evaluative properties, and they do not enter similarity relation in the appropriate way. Furthermore, they are not enti ...
The Problem of Nonexistence: Truthmaking or
... So Crane is to be applauded for spelling-out this common sense picture of the nonexistent, and rejecting philosophical orthodoxy. And yet, some will not be completely satisfied with Crane’s solution. ...
... So Crane is to be applauded for spelling-out this common sense picture of the nonexistent, and rejecting philosophical orthodoxy. And yet, some will not be completely satisfied with Crane’s solution. ...
- James Tartaglia
... subsequently found himself accused of heresy, since certain passages in the Bible, such as the statement at Psalms 104:5 that the Earth ‘can never be moved’, were regarded as divine endorsements of Ptolemy. He went to Rome to defend himself, where the Ptolemaic orthodoxy was defended for the Vatican ...
... subsequently found himself accused of heresy, since certain passages in the Bible, such as the statement at Psalms 104:5 that the Earth ‘can never be moved’, were regarded as divine endorsements of Ptolemy. He went to Rome to defend himself, where the Ptolemaic orthodoxy was defended for the Vatican ...
just what is vagueness?
... kind of gappiness. For example, it is often claimed that a borderline case is one to which the predicate in question neither applies nor does its complement. Notice that on this account, if a is a borderline case of adult, say, then ‘a is an adult’ is (plausibly) neither true nor false. And it is no ...
... kind of gappiness. For example, it is often claimed that a borderline case is one to which the predicate in question neither applies nor does its complement. Notice that on this account, if a is a borderline case of adult, say, then ‘a is an adult’ is (plausibly) neither true nor false. And it is no ...
Insincerity - Andreas Stokke
... But moreover, it is arguable that Searlean Orthodoxy is incorrect even for the limited case of assertion due to the belief-condition it appeals to. This issue is what I turn to next. ...
... But moreover, it is arguable that Searlean Orthodoxy is incorrect even for the limited case of assertion due to the belief-condition it appeals to. This issue is what I turn to next. ...
Foucault and Rorty on Truth and Ideology: A
... In his ‘Two Lectures’ Foucault expressed scepticism about the critique of ideology partly on the grounds that power in modern society has much less to do with ideology than critical theorists assume. Instead of focusing on the role of ideological belief-systems in the manner of critical theorists, F ...
... In his ‘Two Lectures’ Foucault expressed scepticism about the critique of ideology partly on the grounds that power in modern society has much less to do with ideology than critical theorists assume. Instead of focusing on the role of ideological belief-systems in the manner of critical theorists, F ...
A History of the Connectives
... example, “If the earth flies, then the earth exists.” It is false only when the antecedent is true and the consequent is false, as, for example, “If it is day, then it is night.” (Adv. Math. VIII, 112ff.; cf. Hyp. Pyrrh. II, 104ff.) We unfortunately have no record of debates between Philo and Stoics ...
... example, “If the earth flies, then the earth exists.” It is false only when the antecedent is true and the consequent is false, as, for example, “If it is day, then it is night.” (Adv. Math. VIII, 112ff.; cf. Hyp. Pyrrh. II, 104ff.) We unfortunately have no record of debates between Philo and Stoics ...
Willful Ignorance and Self-Deception
... It is disputed that Speer knew only as much as he was letting on in this passage, but let’s take him at his word for argument’s sake. What Speer seemingly wants us to think is that although Hanke’s remarks revealed to him that awful things were going on at the camps, they did not disclose exactly ho ...
... It is disputed that Speer knew only as much as he was letting on in this passage, but let’s take him at his word for argument’s sake. What Speer seemingly wants us to think is that although Hanke’s remarks revealed to him that awful things were going on at the camps, they did not disclose exactly ho ...
Reid`s defense of common sense - Scholars Archive
... is sometimes misread as claiming that no defense could be given. Yet Reid does defend common sense. This paper explores how he does so. Before engaging Reid directly, however, I want to consider two other ways in which Reid is sometimes misread. First, Norman Daniels () reads Reid as follows: Re ...
... is sometimes misread as claiming that no defense could be given. Yet Reid does defend common sense. This paper explores how he does so. Before engaging Reid directly, however, I want to consider two other ways in which Reid is sometimes misread. First, Norman Daniels () reads Reid as follows: Re ...
Two Interpretations of Two Stoic Conditionals
... (488). A proponent of the view that she attacks might say that, since Diodorus saw knowledge as being dependent on the truth of conditionals, they could only be relied upon if they were always true, independent of their time of utterance. Hurst sees that in solving one epistemological problem, Diodo ...
... (488). A proponent of the view that she attacks might say that, since Diodorus saw knowledge as being dependent on the truth of conditionals, they could only be relied upon if they were always true, independent of their time of utterance. Hurst sees that in solving one epistemological problem, Diodo ...
DOC - Princeton University
... How are epistemic and instrumental rationality related? Here is a particularly radical suggestion: epistemic rationality just is instrumental rationality. More precisely: epistemic rationality is a species of instrumental rationality, viz. instrumental rationality in the service of one's cognitive o ...
... How are epistemic and instrumental rationality related? Here is a particularly radical suggestion: epistemic rationality just is instrumental rationality. More precisely: epistemic rationality is a species of instrumental rationality, viz. instrumental rationality in the service of one's cognitive o ...
dworkin on external skepticism
... SPREADING THE WORD 167-71 (1984) (describing emotivism, or the idea that ethical statements are neither true nor false, but simply expressions of emotion); ALAN GIBBARD, WISE CHOICES, APT FEELINGS 126-50 (1990) (describing moral judgments as emotional states); R.M. HARE, THE LANGUAGE OF MORALS 163-7 ...
... SPREADING THE WORD 167-71 (1984) (describing emotivism, or the idea that ethical statements are neither true nor false, but simply expressions of emotion); ALAN GIBBARD, WISE CHOICES, APT FEELINGS 126-50 (1990) (describing moral judgments as emotional states); R.M. HARE, THE LANGUAGE OF MORALS 163-7 ...
Normative Ethics, Normative Epistemology, and Quine`s Holism
... our moral standards themselves. Science, thanks to its links with observation, retains some title to a correspondence theory of truth; but a coherence theory is evidently the lot of ethics\".} Quine has also maintained that when empiricism reached its fifth and most recent milestone it assimilated e ...
... our moral standards themselves. Science, thanks to its links with observation, retains some title to a correspondence theory of truth; but a coherence theory is evidently the lot of ethics\".} Quine has also maintained that when empiricism reached its fifth and most recent milestone it assimilated e ...
Scepticism with regard to Reason* David Owen, University of
... produced by the demonstration. This claim is a statement of fact, not a recommendation. Otherwise, he argues, why would a mathematician “run over his proofs” and seek “the approbation of his friends” (T 180, 1.4.1.2)? Why else would a merchant, not only seek an “accomptant”, but require the “accompt ...
... produced by the demonstration. This claim is a statement of fact, not a recommendation. Otherwise, he argues, why would a mathematician “run over his proofs” and seek “the approbation of his friends” (T 180, 1.4.1.2)? Why else would a merchant, not only seek an “accomptant”, but require the “accompt ...
MORAL INTUITION, MORAL THEORY, AND PRACTICAL ETHICS
... insufficiently sensitive to the status of the fetus. Thus we may take as our starting point certain related moral beliefs about which we are more confident: for example, that killing a morally innocent adult human being whose continued life would be worth living is, except perhaps in the most extrem ...
... insufficiently sensitive to the status of the fetus. Thus we may take as our starting point certain related moral beliefs about which we are more confident: for example, that killing a morally innocent adult human being whose continued life would be worth living is, except perhaps in the most extrem ...
Skeptical Hypotheses and Moral Skepticism
... epistemic form of the view which denies us moral knowledge because we lack sufficient justification. Moreover, I shall focus on those moral skeptics who, like perceptual skeptics, argue for their position via skeptical scenarios, which appeal to the mere existence of certain hypotheses, without the ...
... epistemic form of the view which denies us moral knowledge because we lack sufficient justification. Moreover, I shall focus on those moral skeptics who, like perceptual skeptics, argue for their position via skeptical scenarios, which appeal to the mere existence of certain hypotheses, without the ...
minimalism and truth
... different varieties and dimensions of minimalism about truth. Second, some serious and fundamental problems for the most popular varieties of minimalism about truth have not yet received sufficient attention. This paper aims to remedy those deficiencies. The paper is divided into three sections. In ...
... different varieties and dimensions of minimalism about truth. Second, some serious and fundamental problems for the most popular varieties of minimalism about truth have not yet received sufficient attention. This paper aims to remedy those deficiencies. The paper is divided into three sections. In ...
How Robust can Inconsistency Get?
... publication, most of the paraconsistent work done by American logicians was of this first type. Indeed some of the leading relevant logicians were Rescher’s colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh. But Rescher himself, and Brandom too, are in this second camp, in the slipstream of paraconsistent ...
... publication, most of the paraconsistent work done by American logicians was of this first type. Indeed some of the leading relevant logicians were Rescher’s colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh. But Rescher himself, and Brandom too, are in this second camp, in the slipstream of paraconsistent ...