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349Fiction as Thought ExperimentPerspectives on Science 22 (2): 221-241. 2014.Jonathan Bennett (1974) maintains that Huckleberry Finn’s deliberations about whether to return Jim to slavery afford insight into the tension between sympathy and moral judgment; Miranda Fricker (2007) argues that the trial scene in To Kill a Mockingbird affords insight into the nature of testimonial injustice. Neither claims merely that the works prompt an attentive reader to think something new or to change her mind. Rather, they consider the reader cognitively better off for her encounters w…Read more
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130Reorienting aesthetics, reconceiving cognitionJournal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 58 (3): 219-225. 2000.
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37Word giving, word takingIn David Wood & José Medina (eds.), Truth: Engagements Across Philosophical Traditions, Blackwell. pp. 271--287. 2005.
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98Denying a dualism: Goodman's repudiation of the analytic/synthetic distinctionMidwest Studies in Philosophy 28 (1). 2004.
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119Nominalism, realism and objectivitySynthese 196 (2): 519-534. 2019.I argue that constructive nominalism is preferable to scientific realism. Rather than reflecting without distortion the way the mind-independent world is, theories refract. They provide an understanding of the world as modulated by a particular theory. Truth is defined within a theoretical framework rather than outside of it. This does not undermine objectivity, for an assertion contains a reference to the framework in terms of which its truth is claimed.
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317The legacy of Nelson GoodmanPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 62 (3): 679-690. 2001.Nelson Goodman was one of the soaring figures of twentieth century philosophy. His work radically reshaped the subject, forcing fundamental reconceptions of philosophy’s problems, ends, and means. Goodman not only contributed to diverse fields, from philosophy of language to aesthetics, from philosophy of science to mereology, his works cut across these and other fields, revealing shared features and connecting links that narrowly focused philosophers overlook. That the author of The Structure o…Read more
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