• University of Connecticut
    Department of Philosophy
    Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of Philosophy and Provost Professor of The Humanities
Syracuse University
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1995
APA Eastern Division
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    Three models of conceptual schemes
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 40 (4). 1997.
    Despite widespread confusion over its meaning, the notion of a conceptual scheme is pervasive in Anglo-American philosophy, particularly amongst those who call themselves ' conceptual relativists'. In this paper, I identify three different ways to understand conceptual schemes. I argue that the two most common models, deriving from Kant and Quine, are flawed, and, in addition, useless for the relativist. Instead, I urge adoption of a 'neo-Kantian', broadly Wittgensteinian model, which, it is ' a…Read more