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51Nelson Goodman's new riddle of induction (edited book)Garland. 1997.A challenger of traditions and boundaries A pivotal figure in 20th-century philosophy, Nelson Goodman has made seminal contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of language, with surprising connections that cut across traditional boundaries. In the early 1950s, Goodman, Quine, and White published a series of papers that threatened to torpedo fundamental assumptions of traditional philosophy. They advocated repudiating analyticity, necessity, and prior assumptions…Read more
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15The philosophy of Nelson Goodman: selected essays (edited book)Garland. 1997.v. 1. Nominalism, constructivism, and relativism in the work of Nelson Goodman -- v. 2. Nelson Goodman's new riddle of induction -- v. 3. Nelson Goodman's philosophy of art -- v. 4. Nelson Goodman's theory of symbols and its applications.
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59Between the absolute and the arbitraryCornell University Press. 1997.In Between the Absolute and the Arbitrary, Catherine Z. Elgin maps a constructivist alternative to the standard Anglo-American conception of philosophy's ...
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195The epistemic efficacy of stupiditySynthese 74 (3). 1988.I show that it follows from both externalist and internalist theories that stupid people may be in a better position to know than smart ones. This untoward consequence results from taking our epistemic goal to be accepting as many truths as possible and rejecting as many falsehoods as possible, combined with a recognition that the standard for acceptability cannot be set too high, else scepticism will prevail. After showing how causal, reliabilist, and coherentist theories devalue intelligence, …Read more
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23Reconceptions In Philosophy and Other Arts and Sciences, by Nelson Goodman and Catherine Z. Elgin (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (3): 710-713. 1991.
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6From knowledge to understandingIn Stephen Cade Hetherington (ed.), Epistemology futures, Oxford University Press. pp. 199--215. 2006.
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15Review: D. M. Armstrong, A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility; Brian Skyrms, Tractarian Nominalism (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 56 (1): 352-355. 1991.
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28Williams on truthfulnessPhilosophical Quarterly 55 (219): 343-352. 2005.Truth and Truthfulness: an Essay in Genealogy. By Bernard Williams
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9Die Macht der Sparsamkeit Fiktionale, indirekte und metaphorische Rede in der Symboltheorie Nelson GoodmansDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 45 (4): 487-500. 1997.
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34Outstanding problems: Replies to zif criticsSynthese 95 (1). 1993.Answers set the stage for new questions. Reconfigured terrains require new maps. We endedReconceptions with the words constructionalism always has plenty to do. The papers in this volume prove our point. They raise issues and disclose avenues that merit further investigation. In what follows, I venture some brief replies that answer objections and indicate areas that deserve further study.
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115Creation as reconfiguration: Art in the advancement of scienceInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 16 (1). 2002.Cognitive advancement is not always a matter of acquiring new information. It often consists in reconfiguration--in reorganizing a domain so that hitherto overlooked or underemphasized features, patterns, opportunities, and resources come to light. Several modes of reconfiguration prominent in the arts--metaphor, fiction, exemplification, and perspective--play important roles in science as well. They do not perform the same roles as literal, descriptive, perspectiveless scientific truths. But to…Read more
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13Nominalism, constructivism, and relativism in the work of Nelson Goodman (edited book)Garland. 1997.A challenger of traditions and boundaries A pivotal figure in 20th-century philosophy, Nelson Goodman has made seminal contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of language, with surprising connections that cut across traditional boundaries. In the early 1950s, Goodman, Quine, and White published a series of papers that threatened to torpedo fundamental assumptions of traditional philosophy. They advocated repudiating analyticity, necessity, and prior assumptions…Read more
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250"The Legacy of" Two Dogmas"American Philosophical Quarterly 48 (3): 267. 2011.W. V. Quine is famous, or perhaps infamous, for his repudiation of the analytic/synthetic distinction and kindred dualisms—the necessary/contingent dichotomy and the a priori/a posteriori dichotomy. As these dualisms have come back into vogue in recent years, it might seem that the denial of the dualisms is no part of Quine's enduring legacy. Such a conclusion is unwarranted—not only because the dualisms are deeply problematic, but because "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" haunts even those who want to…Read more
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22Art and educationIn Harvey Siegel (ed.), The Oxford handbook of philosophy of education, Oxford University Press. pp. 319. 2009.
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119Interpretation and Identity: Can the Work Survive the World?Critical Inquiry 12 (3): 564-575. 1986.Predictions concerning the end of the world have proven less reliable than your broker’s recommendations or your fondest hopes. Whether you await the end fearfully or eagerly, you may rest assured that it will never come—not because the world is everlasting but because it has already ended, if indeed it ever began. But we need not mourn, for the world is indeed well lost, and with it the stultifying stereotypes of absolutism: the absurd notions of science as the effort to discover a unique, prep…Read more
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4Exemplification, idealization, and scientific understandingIn Mauricio Suárez (ed.), Fictions in Science: Philosophical Essays on Modeling and Idealization, Routledge. pp. 77-90. 2008.
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36Nelson Goodman's philosophy of art (edited book)Garland. 1997.A challenger of traditions and boundaries A pivotal figure in 20th-century philosophy, Nelson Goodman has made seminal contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, aesthetics, and the philosophy of language, with surprising connections that cut across traditional boundaries. In the early 1950s, Goodman, Quine, and White published a series of papers that threatened to torpedo fundamental assumptions of traditional philosophy. They advocated repudiating analyticity, necessity, and prior assumptions…Read more
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Between the Absolute and the ArbitraryRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 189 (2): 237-238. 1999.
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197Take it from me: The epistemological status of testimonyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 65 (2): 291-308. 2002.Testimony consists in imparting information without supplying evidence or argument to back one's claims. To what extent does testimony convey epistemic warrant? C. J. A. Coady argues, on Davidsonian grounds, that (1) most testimony is true, hence (2) most testimony supplies warrant sufficient for knowledge. I appeal to Grice's maxims to undermine Coady's argument and to show that the matter is more complicated and context-sensitive than is standardly recognized. Informative exchanges take place …Read more
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