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Putnam on the mind-body problem [PDF]
Belgrade Philosophical Annual, 2018 This article discusses Hilary Putnam's views on the mind-body problem, by locating them in the general context of a satisfying pluralistic naturalism that he tried to articulate throughout his entire philosophical career.
De Caro Mario
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Social Categories are Natural Kinds, not Objective Types (and Why it Matters Politically)
Journal of Social Ontology, 2016 There is growing support for the view that social categories like men and women refer to “objective types.” An objective type is a similarity class for which the axis of similarity is an objective rather than nominal or fictional property.
Theodore Bach
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On Appeals to Nature and their Use in the Public Controversy over Genetically Modified Organisms
Informal Logic, 2018 In this paper I discuss appeals to nature, a particular kind of argument that has received little attention in argumentation theory. After a quick review of the existing literature, I focus on the use of such arguments in the public controversy over the ...
Andrei Moldovan
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‘Quine’s Meaning Nihilism: Revisiting Naturalism and Confirmation Method,’ [PDF]
, 2017 The paper concentrates on an appreciation of W.V. Quine’s thought on meaning and how it escalates beyond the meaning holism and confirmation holism, thereby paving the way for a ‘meaning nihilism’ and ‘confirmation rejectionism’.
Chakraborty, Dr Sanjit
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PATNEMIŠKASIS ANTISKEPTIKAS, VERSIJA 3.00: NAUJI PAVIDALAI – SENI REZULTATAI
Problemos, 2010 Straipsnio tikslas – aptarti ir įvertinti epistemologijoje pasitaikančius antiskeptinius argumentus, paremtus kauzaline referencijos teorija. Ypatingas dėmesys skiriamas Hilary Putnamo „smegenų megintuvėlyje“ argumento patobulintam variantui, kurį ...
Jonas Dagys
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, 2017 This article offers an overview of inferential role semantics. We aim to provide a map of the terrain as well as challenging some of the inferentialist’s standard commitments.
Steinberger, Florian, Murzi, Julien
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Ineffability: The very concept [PDF]
, 2020 In this paper, I analyze the concept of ineffability: what does it mean to say that something cannot be said? I begin by distinguishing ineffability from paradox: if something cannot be said truly or without contradiction, this is not an instance of ...
Gäb, Sebastian
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Armchair Access and Imagination [PDF]
, 2018 In this paper, I focus on the Armchair Access Problem for E=K as presented by Nicholas Silins (2005), and I argue, contra Silins, that it does not represent a real threat to E=K.
Fratantonio, Giada
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Scepticism and semantic externalism
Theoria, Beograd, 2021 In this paper, I analyze the anti-skeptical strategy based on Putnam?s semantic externalism, and developed by, among others, Brueckner and Forbes. Popularity of this strategy is stifled by its seeming reliance on question-begging arguments. My aim is to show that these arguments do not, in fact, beg the question.
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DHARMAKIRTI, DAVIDSON, AND KNOWING REALITY [PDF]
, 2012 If we distinguish phenomenal effects from their noumenal causes, the former being our conceptual(ized) experiences, the latter their grounds or causes in reality as it is independent of our experience, then two contradictory positions with regards to ...
Brons, Lajos
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