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Michael Hymers

Dalhousie University
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  • Dalhousie University
    Department of Philosophy
    Regular Faculty
University of Alberta
Department of Philosophy
PhD, 1993
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology
Philosophy of Language
20th Century Philosophy
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    Putnam and the Difficulty of Renouncing All Theory
    International Studies in Philosophy 35 (4): 55-82. 2003.
    This paper examines the dispute between Putnam and Rorty concerning truth and rational acceptability, arguing that Putnam's criticisms of Rorty mostly miss the point and that if we treat idealized rational acceptability as immunity to self-defeating doubt, then we can see it as a sufficient, though not necessary, condition of truth.
    Internal RealismTruth, Misc
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    Julian Roberts, The Logic of Reflection (review)
    Philosophy in Review 13 113-115. 1993.
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    Critical Notice of Beyond the Analytic-Continental Divide: Pluralist Philosophy in the Twenty-First Century. Edited by Jeffrey A. Bell, Andrew Cutrofello, and Paul M. Livingston (review)
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 47 (5): 694-713. 2017.
    This collection maintains a dialogue between the analytic and continental traditions, while aspiring to situate itself beyond the analytic-continental divide. It divides into four parts, Methodologies, Truth and Meaning, Metaphysics and Ontology, and Values, Personhood and Agency, though there is considerable overlap among the categories. History and temporality are recurrent themes, but there is a lot of metaphysics generally, with some philosophy of language, philosophy of social science, ethi…Read more
    This collection maintains a dialogue between the analytic and continental traditions, while aspiring to situate itself beyond the analytic-continental divide. It divides into four parts, Methodologies, Truth and Meaning, Metaphysics and Ontology, and Values, Personhood and Agency, though there is considerable overlap among the categories. History and temporality are recurrent themes, but there is a lot of metaphysics generally, with some philosophy of language, philosophy of social science, ethics, political philosophy and epistemology. Less prominent is a pragmatic, deflationary attitude, and at a number of points I argue for the virtues of such an approach.
    M&E, Misc20th Century Analytic Philosophy20th Century Continental PhilosophyMetaphilosophy
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    Something less than paradise: The magic of modal realism
    Australasian Journal of Philosophy 69 (3). 1991.
    Against the forces of modal ersatzism Lewis launches a variety of attacks, some of which are clearly compelling, others of which are less so. I argue that pictorial ersatzism cannot clearly be distinguished from magical ersatzism, and--more interestingly--that 'genuine' modal realism is subject to precisely the criticisms so fatal for the magical ersatzers.
    Modal Realism
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    Michael N. Forster, Wittgenstein on the Arbitrariness of Grammar (review)
    Philosophy in Review 25 (2): 104-106. 2005.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein
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    How things might have been: Individuals, kinds, and essential properties - by Penelope Mackie (review)
    Philosophical Books 49 (1): 67-68. 2008.
    HaecceitismEssence and Essentialism, MiscDe Re Modality, Misc
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