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Metaethics and the Functions of Moral Language
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Metaethics has long included debates about the function of moral discourse. Some have argued that moral statements express our attitudes, others that they serve as prescriptions for how to act, still others that they describe moral facts or properties.
Amie L. Thomasson
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Frege and numbers as self-subsistent Objects [PDF]
, 2010 This paper argues that Frege is not the metaphysical platonist about mathematics that he is standardly taken to be. It is shown that Frege’s project has two distinct stages: the identification of what is true of our ordinary notions, and then the ...
Lavers, Gregory
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Ideas y Valores, 2004 El ensayo ofrece un esbozo del lugar del trabajo de Donald Davidson en elestudio de las semánticas formales para los lenguajes naturales. Se discu-ten algunas relaciones importantes entre el trabajo de Davidson y las ideasde Frege, Tarski, Quine y ...
Gabriel Segal
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Theoria, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Contemporary epistemologists analysing knowledge take (true) propositions to be the object of knowledge. In this paper, I provide an argument for the claim that the object of knowledge is, in fact, the world. The propositions in propositional knowledge ascriptions merely describe the part of the world of which the subject is aware. Kent Bach's
Tess Dewhurst
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Journal of Symbolic Logic, 2002 AbstractI show that any sentence ofnth-order (pure or applied) arithmetic can be expressed with no loss of compositionality as a second-order sentence containing no arithmetical vocabulary, and use this result to prove a completeness theorem for applied arithmetic. More specifically. I set forth an enriched second-order languageL.
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The Revo‐Evo Debate in the History and Philosophy of Science
Natural Sciences, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 2026.The paper juxtaposes revolutionary and evolutionary positions in epistemology in general as well as the history of science. While it deems the evolutionary arguments more persuasive, it also stresses the dependence of our assessment of change on the language we choose to describe the theories and positions under consideration.
Yemima Ben‐Menahem
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Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 3, Page 300-315, July 2026.ABSTRACT According to most readers of the Tractatus, Wittgenstein's logic is empty or contentless, since it consists of tautologies that do not picture reality. This view, however, does not explain how and why Wittgenstein's ‘logic of depiction’ is transcendental (T, 4.015 and 6.13), especially given that Kant introduced transcendental logic through ...
Simone Nota
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Manuscrito, 2023 It is often claimed that the theory of function levels proposed by Frege in Grundgesetze der Arithmetik anticipates the hierarchy of types that underlies Church's simple theory of types. This claim roughly states that Frege presupposes a type of functions in the sense of simple type theory in the expository language of Grundgesetze.
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Australian Journal of Public Administration, Volume 85, Issue 2, Page 392-412, June 2026.Abstract This Forum Article integrates a range of four contributions which are all underpinned by the conviction that the rediscovery of the humanities may be beneficial to the field of public administration. The first piece examines the contribution that philosophy, as a key discipline of the humanities, can provide to the field of public ...
Edoardo Ongaro +5 more
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How “Meaning” became “Narrow Content”
Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric, 2016 The paper traces how disappointment with the notion of linguistic meaning has led to a shift towards the new, technical term of “narrow content”. In the first part of the paper I analyze the ways “narrow content” is understood in the literature.
Grabarczyk Paweł
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