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Laws and Reasons Why

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Laws play some role in explanations: at the very least, they somehow connect what is explained, or the explanandum, to what explains, or the explanans. Thus, thermodynamical laws connect the match's being struck and its lightning, so that the former causes the latter; and laws about set formation connect Socrates' existence with {Socrates}'s ...
Julio De Rizzo
wiley   +1 more source

In Defense of Wishful Thinking: James, Quine, Emotions, and the Web of Belief [PDF]

, 2018
What is W. V. O. Quine’s relationship to classical pragmatism? Although he resists the comparison to William James in particular, commentators have seen an affinity between his “web of belief” model of theory confirmation and James’s claim that our ...
Klein, Alexander
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The I in logic

Theoria, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper argues for the significance of Kaplan's logic LD in two ways: first, by looking at how logic got along before we had LD, and second, by using it to bring out the similarity between David Hume's thesis that one cannot deduce claims about the future on the basis of premises only about the past, and the so‐called "essentiality" of the ...
Gillian Russell
wiley   +1 more source

O significado em Quine e Searle

Calidoscópio, 2013
Este artigo procura, primeiramente, apresentar as objeções de Quine à teoria mentalista do signifi cado. Em seguida, tentamos mostrar que a rejeição de Quine não se baseia em bons argumentos, e que leva a certas incoerências.
Heronides Moura, Giuseppe Freitas Varaschin   +1 more
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Modal Logic and Modal Metaphysics: An Avicennian Division of Labour

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper argues that Avicenna was both a necessitarian and a realist about contingency. The two aspects of his modal metaphysics are reconciled by arguing that Avicenna's modal metaphysics is founded on realism about essences: strictly speaking, an individual has no contingent properties, but a modal distinction can be made between the ...
Jari Kaukua
wiley   +1 more source

Note on the Significance of the New Logic [PDF]

, 2018
Brief note explaining the content, importance, and historical context of my joint translation of Quine's The Significance of the New Logic with my single-authored historical-philosophical essay 'Willard Van Orman Quine's Philosophical Development in the ...
Janssen-Lauret, Frederique
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Quining qualia

, 1992
"Qualia" is an unfamiliar term for something that could not be more familiar to each of us: the ways things seem to us. As is so often the case with philosophical jargon, it is easier to give examples than to give a definition of the term. Look at a glass of milk at sunset; the way it looks to you--the particular, personal, subjective visual quality of
openaire   +2 more sources

(Co‐)Reference All the Way Down: A Unified Theory of (Pro) Nominals in Ordinary English

Theoria, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay joins two themes, both arising from Kripke's inspiring ideas in the theory of reference. The first theme concerns reference in general. The second examines the notion of co‐reference and the role it plays in a unified theory of pronouns for natural language.
Jessica Pepp, Joseph Almog
wiley   +1 more source

Susan Haack: de las lógicas divergentes a la epistemología [PDF]

Azur
Nuestro propósito es exponer los aportes de Susan Haack a la lógica y epistemología. Nos interesan en particular sus ideas sobre las lógicas divergentes y alternativas, su relación con el pensamiento de Willard van Orman Quine y sus posiciones sobre ...
Luis Camacho
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Why “is at”? —On Quine’s Objection to Carnap’s Aufbau in “Two Dogmas of Empiricism”

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2018
In “Two Dogmas”, Quine indicates that Carnap’s Aufbau fails “in principle” to reduce our knowledge of the external world to sense data. This is because in projecting the sensory material to reconstruct the physical world, Carnap gives up the use of ...
Ka Ho Lam
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