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Flexible Counterparts

open access: yesAnalytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Counterpart theories are powerful thanks to their flexibility: counterpart relations are not symmetrical or transitive, and one can apply more than one counterpart relation to one object. This is used to analyze metaphysical puzzles, but it also gives rise to an objection: this flexibility forces one to deny that the phenomena analyzed using ...
Florian Gatignon
wiley   +1 more source

Language Games About Language Games: Wittgensteinian Hermeneutics Between Imaginative Participation and Analysis

open access: yesPhilosophical Investigations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Drawing on Remarks on Frazer's Golden Bough and Philosophical Grammar, it is shown that, from a hermeneutic perspective, the Middle Wittgenstein, develops a fluid model of understanding which supposes a fixable meaning of any given text. In this context, to understand a text (intransitively) means to (imaginatively) play the language games ...
Sebastian Abel
wiley   +1 more source

De‐Moralizing Friendship: Unfinished Business

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We have duties to our friends that we don't have to strangers. Philosophers traditionally take these duties of friendship to be moral duties. But this moralist position cannot accommodate the full scope of the duties that we have to our friends. Many of these associative duties appear to be duties of a distinct normative kind.
Jessica Isserow
wiley   +1 more source

A New Transcendental Argument for Robust Realism

open access: yesRatio, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper presents a new argument for robust realism, the view about normativity that Philip Stratton‐Lake held. The argument has three main premises: that we cannot believe an error theory about all normative judgements; that trying to endorse the best version of expressivism makes us believe robust realism; and that trying to endorse the ...
Bart Streumer
wiley   +1 more source

Late Soviet Intellectual Cult(ure): Merab Mamardashvili’s Strategy of Self‐Presentation

open access: yesThe Russian Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyzes Merab Konstantinovich Mamardashvili’s philosophical strategy in the context of late and post‐Soviet intellectual culture. It focuses on How I Understand Philosophy (1990), a collection of Mamardashvili’s works and interviews that had a significant impact on the reception of his thought and the shaping of his intellectual ...
Egor Sokolov
wiley   +1 more source

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