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60Critical review: Richard B. Brandt, a theory of the good and the right (review)Philosophical Studies 42 (1). 1982.
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75What is cognitively accessed?Behavioral and Brain Sciences 30 (5-6): 505-505. 2007.Is Block's issue about accessing an experience or its object? Having certain experiences appears to be incompatible with accessing the experience itself. And any experience of an object accesses that object. Such access either counts as cognitive or does not. Either way, Block's issue seems resolvable without appeal to the scientific considerations he describes
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85Review of Piotr stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Volume 1: The Formal Turn; Volume 2: The Philosophical Turn (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (2). 2011.
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110For philosophical naturalism, as I understand it, philosophy is continuous with natural science. It takes the methods of philosophy to be continuous with those of the natural sciences and is sceptical of allegedly apriori intuitions which it claims need to be tested against one’s other beliefs and, ideally, against the world.
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42Chapter 9. Evidence One Does Not PossessIn Thought, Princeton University Press. pp. 142-154. 2015.
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8Rational insight versus general foundationsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (3): 657--63. 2001.BonJour offers two main reasons for supposing that there is such a thing as rational insight into necessity. First, he says there are many examples in which it clearly seems that one has such insight. Second, he argues that any epistemology denying the existence of rational insight into necessity is committed to a narrow skepticism. After commenting about possible frameworks for epistemological justification, I argue against these two claims in reverse order.
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66General foundations versus rational insight (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 63 (3). 2001.BonJour offers two main reasons for supposing that there is such a thing as rational insight into necessity. First, he says there are many examples in which it clearly seems that one has such insight. Second, he argues that any epistemology denying the existence of rational insight into necessity is committed to a narrow skepticism. After commenting about possible frameworks for epistemological justification, I argue against these two claims in reverse order.
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73Moral Relativism as a Foundation for Natural RightsJournal of Libertarian Studies 4 (4): 367-371. 1980.
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95Philosophers sometimes approach meaning metaphorically, for example, by speaking of “grasping” meanings, as if understanding consists in getting mental hands around something.1 Philosophers say that a theory of meaning should be a theory about the meanings that people assign to expressions in their language, that to understand other people requires identifying the meanings they associate with what they are saying, and that to translate an expression of another language into your own is to find a…Read more
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12Ethics and ObservationIn James Rachels (ed.), Ethical Theory 1: The Question of Objectivity, Oxford University Press. 1998.
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138Meaning Holism DefendedGrazer Philosophische Studien 46 (1): 163-171. 1993.The meaning of a symbol is determined by its use, but the canonical way of specifying meaning is in a statement of the form "S means...". To be able to provide such a specification is equivalent to being able to translate the symbol S into one's own terms. A change in usage of terms involves a change of meaning iff the correct translation between earlier usage and later usage takes a term into a different expression. Such translation is holistic, a matter of finding the best mapping. Sameness of…Read more
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257Knowledge and assumptionsPhilosophical Studies 156 (1): 131-140. 2011.When epistemologists talk about knowledge, the discussions traditionally include only a small class of other epistemic notions: belief, justification, probability, truth. In this paper, we propose that epistemologists should include an additional epistemic notion into the mix, namely the notion of assuming or taking for granted.
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