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177Lewis and Quine in contextAsian Journal of Philosophy 2 (2): 1-8. 2023.Robert Sinclair’s *Quine, Conceptual Pragmatism, and the Analytic-Synthetic Distinction* persuasively argues that Quine’s epistemology was deeply influenced by C. I. Lewis’s pragmatism. Sinclair’s account raises the question why Quine himself frequently downplayed Lewis’s influence. Looking back, Quine has always said that Rudolf Carnap was his “greatest teacher” and that his 1933 meeting with the German philosopher was his “first experience of sustained intellectual engagement with anyone of an…Read more
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51Towards a moderate scientismAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 107 (3): 285-299. 2015.Scientism, the view that only scientifically supported beliefs are epistemically justified, faces two influential problems: (1) scientism itself does not seem to be scientifically supported and hence self-referentially incoherent; and (2) scientism seems to dismiss many plausible ordinary beliefs as unjustified. In this paper, we show that both problems presuppose a needlessly narrow conception of science and that when scientism is based on a broader, more realistic conception of science neither…Read more
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33Suspension and disagreementAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 108 (1): 37-52. 2016.Some sceptics claim that in cases of peer disagreement, we ought to suspend judgment about the topic of discussion. In this paper, we argue that the sceptic’s conclusions are only correct in some scenarios. We show that the sceptic’s conclusion is built on two premises (the principle of evidential symmetry and the principle of evidentialism) and argue that both premises are incorrect. First, we show that although it is often rational to suspend judgment when an epistemic peer disagrees with you,…Read more
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14Review of Quine, New Foundations, and the Philosophy of Set Theory by Sean Morris (review)Hopos: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science 10 (1): 340-343. 2020.Review of Quine, New Foundations, and the Philosophy of Set Theory by Sean Morris
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20th Century Analytic Philosophy |
W. V. O. Quine |
Rudolf Carnap |
Logical Empiricism |
History of Psychology |
Behaviorism |
Operationalism |
Philosophy of Psychology |