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48Leibniz on the Epistemic Status of the MysteriesPhilosophy and Theology 13 (1): 143-158. 2001.In this paper, I examine Leibniz’s account of the epistemic status of the Christian Mysteries in his “Preliminary Dissertation on the Conformity of Faith with Reason.” In it, the Mysteries are held to be true, yet also to be beyond human comprehension. This conjunction gives rise to a dilemma: how can the Mysteries bemeaningfully asserted if they are unintelligible? To answer this, Leibniz compares them to natural truths, which are demonstrable by God alone. To complicate matters, however, he su…Read more
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51Two Problems for the Proper Functionalist Analysis of Epistemic WarrantSouthwest Philosophy Review 15 (2): 97-107. 1999.
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850Kant and the Conventionality of SimultaneityBritish Journal for the History of Philosophy 18 (5): 845-856. 2010.Kant’s three Analogies of Experience, in his Critique of Pure Reason, represent a highly condensed attempt to establish the metaphysical foundations of Newtonian physics. His strategy is to show that the organization of experience in terms of a world of enduring substances undergoing mutual causal interaction is a necessary condition of the temporal ordering even of one’s own subjective states, and thus of coherent experience itself. In his Third Analogy—an examination of the necessary condition…Read more
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Epistemology |
Metaphilosophy |
General Philosophy of Science |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |