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162Paul Forster, "Peirce and the Threat of Nominalism" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 51 (1): 137-8. 2013.
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763Diagrammatic Teaching: The Role of Iconic Signs in Meaningful PedagogyIn Inna Semetsky (ed.), Edusemiotics – a Handbook, Springer. pp. 29-45. 2018.Charles S. Peirce’s semiotics uniquely divides signs into: i) symbols, which pick out their objects by arbitrary convention or habit, ii) indices, which pick out their objects by unmediated ‘pointing’, and iii) icons, which pick out their objects by resembling them (as Peirce put it: an icon’s parts are related in the same way that the objects represented by those parts are themselves related). Thus representing structure is one of the icon’s greatest strengths. It is argued that the implication…Read more
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386The Meaning of Meaning-FallibilismAxiomathes 15 (2): 293-318. 2005.Much discussion of meaning by philosophers over the last 300 years has been predicated on a Cartesian first-person authority (i.e. “infallibilism”) with respect to what one’s terms mean. However this has problems making sense of the way the meanings of scientific terms develop, an increase in scientific knowledge over and above scientists’ ability to quantify over new entities. Although a recent conspicuous embrace of rigid designation has broken up traditional meaning-infallibilism to some exte…Read more
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141Gabriele Gava, "Peirce’s Account of Purposefulness: A Kantian Perspective" (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 24 (2): 267-270. 2016.
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725Bill Gates is not a parking meter: Philosophical quality control in automated ontology buildingProceedings of the Symposium on Computational Philosophy, AISB/IACAP World Congress 2012 (Birmingham, England, July 2-6). 2012.The somewhat old-fashioned concept of philosophical categories is revived and put to work in automated ontology building. We describe a project harvesting knowledge from Wikipedia’s category network in which the principled ontological structure of Cyc was leveraged to furnish an extra layer of accuracy-checking over and above more usual corrections which draw on automated measures of semantic relatedness.
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812The Problem of the Essential IconAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 45 (3): 207-232. 2008.Charles Peirce famously divided all signs into icons, indices and symbols. The past few decades have seen mainstream analytic philosophy broaden its traditional focus on symbols to recognise the so-called essential indexical. Can the moral now be extended to icons? Is there an “essential icon”? And if so, what exactly would be essential about it? It is argued that there is and it consists in logical form. Danielle Macbeth’s radical new “expressivist” interpretation of Frege’s logic and Charles P…Read more
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Areas of Interest
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Metaphilosophy |
History of Western Philosophy |
Meaning |
Truth |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Wilfrid Sellars |
Ludwig Wittgenstein |