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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Purity is the principle that fundamental facts only have fundamental constituents. In recent years, it has played a significant (if sometimes implicit) role in metaphysical theorizing. A philosopher will argue that a fact [p]$[p]$ contains a derivative entity and cite Purity as a reason to deny that [p]$[p]$ is fundamental. I argue that recent
Samuel Z. Elgin
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Willard Van Orman Quine's Philosophical Development in the 1930s and 1940s [PDF]
, 2018 As analytic philosophy is becoming increasingly aware of and interested in its own history, the study of that field is broadening to include, not just its earliest beginnings, but also the mid-twentieth century.
Janssen-Lauret, Frederique
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Noûs, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In several articles, McCall and Lowe have claimed that endurantism and perdurantism are “equivalent.” From this, they conclude that there is no fact of the matter as to whether we live in an endurantist world or in a perdurantist world. In this paper, I use the notion of Morita equivalence to show in which precise sense, McCall and Lowe's ...
Joshua Babic
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The Epistemology of “Epistemology Naturalized” [PDF]
, 1999 Quine's “Epistemology Naturalized” has become part of the canon in epistemology and excited a widespread revival of interest in naturalism. Yet the status accorded the essay is ironic, since both friends and foes of philosophical naturalism deny that ...
Roth, Paul
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Apparent Paradoxes Are Paradoxes and the Problem of Change Is an Apparent Paradox
Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.ABSTRACT In this paper, we argue that, under certain conditions, if something is, apparently, a paradox, then it is a paradox. We then apply this claim to a recent discussion on the so‐called “Problem of Change.” Throughout the history of Philosophy, many authors have viewed change as a paradoxical phenomenon. More recently, some have defended that the
Sergi Oms, Marta Campdelacreu
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Quine and the Problem of Truth
Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2016 Widespread deflationistic readings of Quine misrepresent his view of disquotation’s significance and the truth predicate’s utility. I demonstrate this by answering a question that philosophers have not directly addressed: how does Quine understand the ...
Joshua Schwartz
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Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the fact that the concept of categoricity is ubiquitous in contemporary metaphysics, it is hard to find a suitable characterization of categoricity. I hold that the absence of such a characterization is responsible for much confusion and debate regarding categorical properties and their relationship to dispositions.
Sungho Choi
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Las críticas de Quine a la individualización atomista del significado.
Revista de Filosofia, 2001 En este trabajo se examinan las objeciones al concepto de analiticidad y a la atribución de significado a enunciados que presentó Quine en Dos dogmas del empirismo.
Manuel Pérez Otero
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The Adoption Problem and Anti-Exceptionalism about Logic [PDF]
, 2019 Anti-exceptionalism about logic takes logic to be, as the name suggests, unexceptional. Rather, in naturalist fashion, the anti-exceptionalist takes logic to be continuous with science, and considers logical theories to be adoptable and revisable ...
Finn, Suki
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The bearable lightness of being [PDF]
, 2010 How are philosophical questions about what kinds of things there are to be understood and how are they to be answered? This paper defends broadly Fregean answers to these questions.
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