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The mark of the dispositional: Broad, Ramsey and Wittgenstein
Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 2, Page 212-235, April 2026.Abstract This paper reconstructs a trajectory of theoretical influence on the concept of disposition among C.D. Broad, F.P. Ramsey and L. Wittgenstein. The central thesis is that the form of dispositionalism Wittgenstein criticizes in his post‐Tractarian philosophy—particularly in relation to belief, meaning and understanding—corresponds closely to the
Alice Morelli
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Carnap, Friedman e o revisionismo
Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2013 Neste artigo, retomamos a obra carnapiana com o objetivo de reavaliar um período da filosofia da ciência cuja influência ainda pode ser notada nos trabalhos atuais de orientação empirista e que, portanto, não pode simplesmente ser arquivado à títulos de
Gelson Liston
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Channels’ Confirmation and Predictions’ Confirmation: From the Medical Test to the Raven Paradox [PDF]
, 2020 After long arguments between positivism and falsificationism, the verification of universal hypotheses was replaced with the confirmation of uncertain major premises. Unfortunately, Hemple proposed the Raven Paradox.
Lu, Chenguang
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Carnap, Feyerabend, and the Pragmatic Theory of Observation
HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science, 2018 Paul Feyerabend once suggested that his pragmatic theory of observation can be traced back to proposals put forward by leading Logical Empiricists during the height of the protocol sentence debate. In this article, I want to vindicate the systematic side
Daniel Kuby
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Ontology After Folk Psychology; or, Why Eliminativists Should Be Mental Fictionalists
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 1-11, March 2026.ABSTRACT Mental fictionalism holds that folk psychology should be regarded as a kind of fiction. The present version gives a Lewisian prefix semantics for mentalistic discourse, where roughly, a mentalistic sentence “p” is true iff “p” is deducible from the folk psychological fiction.
Ted Parent
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Álvaro Peláez Cedrés, Breve introducción al pensamiento de Carnap
Crítica, 2019 Álvaro Peláez Cedrés, Breve introducción al pensamiento de Carnap, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México, 2008, 235 pp.
Thomas Mormann
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Analytic Philosophy, Volume 67, Issue 1, Page 83-90, March 2026.ABSTRACT Carnap's Logical Syntax of Language (1937) contains an unfortunate passage, the ‘Babylon passage’, explaining what it is for a linguistic expression to be about a subject matter. Past criticism has only addressed Carnap's mistaken claim that the occurrence of a denoting term is necessary and sufficient for a linguistic expression to be about ...
C. Naomi Osorio‐Kupferblum
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Carnap Sentences and the Newman Problem [PDF]
, 2015 In this paper I discuss the Newman problem in the context of contemporary epistemic structural realism (ESR). I formulate Newman’s objection in terms that apply to today’s ESR and then evaluate a defence of ESR based on
Gogianu, Larisa Ioana
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How to Think About Tacit (or Implicit) Beliefs
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 112, Issue 2, Page 335-345, March 2026.ABSTRACT This paper defends a novel theory of tacit belief (sometimes called “implicit belief”). After providing some background and taxonomy, I argue that dispositionalist theories of belief fail to provide a good account of tacit beliefs; this failure gives us a reason to reject those dispositionalist theories.
Andrew Moon
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Quine, Ontology, and Physicalism [PDF]
, 2019 Quine's views on ontology and naturalism are well-known but rarely considered in tandem. According to my interpretation the connection between them is vital. I read Quine as a global epistemic structuralist.
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