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Distinguishing WV Quine and Donald Davidson
Given W.V. Quine’s and Donald Davidson’s extensive agreement about much of the philosophy of language and mind, and the obvious methodological parallels between Quine’s radical translation and Davidson’s radical interpretation, many—including Quine and ...
James Pearson
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Naturalistic Metaphysics at Sea [PDF]
In this paper I return to the mid-20th-century debate between Quine and Carnap on the status of metaphysics questions with an eye toward advancing contemporary debates about whether naturalists can coherently undertake substantive metaphysical inquiry ...
Haug, Matthew
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David Lewis's Place in the History of Late Analytic Philosophy: His Conservative and Liberal Methodology [PDF]
In 1901 Russell had envisaged the new analytic philosophy as uniquely systematic, borrowing the methods of science and mathematics. A century later, have Russell’s hopes become reality? David Lewis is often celebrated as a great systematic metaphysician,
Janssen-Lauret, Frederique +1 more
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Can we repudiate ontology altogether?
Abstract Ontological nihilists repudiate ontology altogether, maintaining that ontological structure is an unnecessary addition to our theorizing. Recent defenses of the view involve a sophisticated combination of highly expressive but ontologically innocent languages combined with a metaphysics of features—non‐objectual, complete but modifiable states
Christopher J. Masterman
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QUINE, DOGALLAŞTIRILMIŞ EPİSTEMOLOJİ VE EPİSTEMOLOJİNİN NORMATİF YÖNÜ
QUINE, DOGALLAŞTIRILMIŞ EPİSTEMOLOJİ VE EPİSTEMOLOJİNİN NORMATİF ...
Fatih Sultan Mehmet Öztürk
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Bereaved Mothers and Masculine Queens: The Political Use of Maternal Grief in 1–2 Kings
Recent research demonstrates that maternal grief functions paradigmatically to epitomize despair and sorrow in the Hebrew Bible. These literary uses of maternal grief reinforce the stereotype of womanhood, defined by devotion to children and anguish at ...
Quine Cat
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Anselm's Temporal‐Ontological Proof
ABSTRACT In his Reply to Gaunilo, Anselm presented two additional arguments for the existence of God beyond those that appear in the Proslogion. In “The Logical Structure of Anselm's Argument,” Robert M. Adams isolates each. One, he develops into a modal ontological argument along the lines of other 20th century ontological arguments (e.g., those of ...
Daniel Rubio
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Atención, referencia e inescrutabilidad
En este ensayo discuto la crítica de John Campbell a la tesis de la inescrutabilidad de la referencia de Quine. Primero defiendo que los argumentos de Campbell no dan en el blanco, pues él pasa por alto la conexión que Quine traza entre referencia ...
Ignacio Ávila Cañamares
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In this review, I will discuss the historical importance of “The Significance of the New Logic” by Quine. This is a translation of the original “O Sentido da Nova Lógica” in Portuguese by Carnielli, Janssen-Lauret, and ...
Alfredo Roque Freire
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Aquinas’s actual response to a naturalistic challenge at ST I.2.3 is one which most naturalists would find unimpressive. However, I shall argue that there is a stronger response latent in his philosophical system.
O'Grady, Paul
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