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157Thomas Nagel - Recipient of the Rolf Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, 2008Theoria 75 (2): 76-78. 2009.No Abstract.
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Quine on underdeterminationIn Robert B. Barrett & Roger F. Gibson (eds.), Perspectives on Quine, Blackwell. pp. 38--52. 1990.
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213On the Coherence of Act-UtilitarianismAnalysis 33 (3): 98-102. 1973.The article is a reply to professor castaneda's criticism of a recursive formulation of act-utilitarianism which i have suggested in an earlier paper (analysis 29.2) and which was intended to satisfy the deontic principle that 'ought' is distributable over conjunctions. i argue that castaneda's arguments against my formulation are inconclusive.
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105Gary Kemp Quine versus Davidson: Truth, Reference, and Meaning. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2013. 191 pp. isbn 978‐0‐19‐969562‐1 (review)Theoria 80 (3): 283-287. 2014.
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669Meaning and moralsIn Raymond E. Olson (ed.), Contemporary philosophy in Scandinavia, Johns Hopkins University Press. 1972.
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8488Putnam on the Fact-Value DichotomyCroatian Journal of Philosophy 2 (2): 117-129. 2002.In Reason, Truth and History and certain related writings, Hilary Putnam attacked the fact-value distinction. This paper criticizes his arguments and defends the distinction. Putnam claims that factual statements presuppose values, that “the empirical world depends upon our criteria of rational acceptability,” and that “we must have criteria of rational acceptability to even have an empirical world.” The present paper argues that these claims are mistaken.
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190A Defense of Quinean NaturalismIn Chase B. Wrenn (ed.), Naturalism, Reference, and Ontology: Essays in Honor of Roger F. Gibson, Peter Lang Publishing Group. 2008.This paper argues that a naturalized epistemology of the kind presented by W.V. Quine preserves everything worthwhile in traditional epistemology. Arguments against Quinean naturalism by such writers as Laurence BonJour, Jaegwon Kim, Richard Rorty, Barry Stroud, and Donald Davidson are criticized. Contrary to what is sometimes assumed, Quinean naturalism does not reject a priori justification. The important point is that epistemology is contained in science. There is no ‘first philosophy’, and, …Read more
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2183Quine's relativismTheoria 72 (4): 286-298. 2006.Keywords: W.V.Quine claimed that relativism is paradoxical and unacceptable; nevertheless, his own views concerning truth and the underdetermination of theories by data amount to an interesting and plausible form of relativism.
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53Hintikka on "Prima Facie" ObligationsTheoria 40 (3): 163-165. 1974.In this note it is argued that professor jaakko hintikka's explication of the notion of a 'prima facie obligation' within the framework of deontic logic must be regarded as unsatisfactory. since our world is not morally (or 'deontically') perfect, hintikka's proposal seems to have the absurd consequence that everything is a prima facie obligation.
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1674Underdetermination of Physical TheoryIn Roger F. Gibson (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Quine, Cambridge University Press. pp. 91--114. 2004.
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901Notes on the value of scienceIn Dag Prawitz, Brian Skyrms & Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Logic, methodology, and philosophy of science IX: proceedings of the Ninth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Uppsala, Sweden, August 7-14, 1991, Elsevier. 1994.
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8296Scientific valueInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 10 (3): 189-202. 1996.Criteria of scientific value are of different kinds. This paper concerns ultimate criteria, i.e. the axiology of science. Most ultimate criteria are multi‐dimensional. This gives rise to an aggregation problem, which cannot be adequately solved with reference to attitudes and behaviour within the scientific community. Therefore, in many cases, there is no fact of the matter as to whether one theory is better than another. This, in turn, creates problems for methodology.
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11236Death and Eternal RecurrenceIn Ben Bradley, Fred Feldman & Jens Johansson (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Death, Oxford University Press. 2015.
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