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62Direct vs. indirect consequences of empirical verificationsTopoi 21 (1-2): 93-98. 2002.Professor Prawitz has made four claims in his talk. The first claim is that one should be able to generalize the intuitionistic theory of meaning already available for mathematical discourse to empirical discourse. Since each claim constitutes a step in an argument of a general form in favour of some new kind of antirealistically inclined theory of meaning (with a final pessimistic overtone), I shall go over each claim one by one, check whether the argument which links them in the way described …Read more
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Jazyk, myšlení, logika a dějiny analytické filosofie z perspektivy antirealismuFilosoficky Casopis 47 589-620. 1999.[An Anti-Realist Perspective on Language, Thought, Logic and the History of Analytic Philosophy. .]
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11Review of Anat Matar, Modernism and the Language of Philosophy (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (11). 2006.Modernism, in the book under review, is characterized as the belief that "there can be no philosophical language; that the kind of truth sub specie aeterni that was sought by philosophers is either meaningless or more appropriately expressed by the arts -- especially by literature and poetry" (p. xiii). The author wishes to show that this thesis rests upon unquestioned dogmas, presuppositions or presumptions "regarding the distinction between representation and presentation," which should be rej…Read more
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14Critical Review of'Pourquoi les mathématiques sont-elles difficiles' by Lény OumraouTheoria. forthcoming.
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48In a nutshell, semantic antirealism is the doctrine that if a statement is true, then it must be possible, at least in principle, to determine that it is true. Consider the particular case of self-ascriptions of attitudes such as beliefs, desires and intentions, i.e. statements of the form "I φ [that] p", where φ ranges over propositional attitude verbs and p provides the content of whatever is φd by the self-ascriber. Should we be semantic antirealists about these when the putative bearer of th…Read more
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41IX. Naturalizing mathematics and naturalizing ethicsIn Petrov V. (ed.), Ontological Landscapes: Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces between Science and Philosophy, Ontos. pp. 183. 2011.I offer several reasons for rejecting naturalism as a philosophical viewpoint or program envisaged for two paradigm cases: the case of mathematics and the case of ethics. Semantical, epistemological and metaphysical similarities between the two are investigated and assessed. I then offer a sketch of a different way of understanding the nature of mathematical difficulties and that of ethical puzzles.
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21Emotions are part of our culture ; particular emotions like resentment andguilt are part of specific cultural heritages. On the other hand, moral judgementsand imperatives have the appearance of objectivity. There lies - or so it seems -a conflict, even a contradiction. Statements like "Slavery is unjust" may beasserted, agreements may be reached concerning what they claim or express,and they may occur as antecedents in conditionals such as "If slavery is unjust,then it must be abolished". When …Read more
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Eine Antirealistische sicht von Sprache, Denken, Logik und der Geschichte der analytischen Philosophie. Ein Gespräch mit Michael DummettConceptus: Zeitschrift Fur Philosophie 30 (76): 1-36. 1997.
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27Incompleteness, constructivism and truthLogic and Logical Philosophy 6 (n/a): 63. 1998.Although G¨odel proved the first incompleteness theorem by intuitionistically respectable means, G¨odel’s formula, true although undecidable,seems to offer a counter-example to the general constructivist or anti-realistclaim that truth may not transcend recognizability in principle. It is arguedhere that our understanding of the formula consists in a knowledge of itstruth-conditions, that it is true in a minimal sense and, finally, that it is recognized as such given the consistencyand ω-consistenc…Read more
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26According to the antirealist view of history, history is something historians construct in the present. Although the warrants they may gather in favour of past events do not form a coherent class, such warrants constitute the assertibility conditions of our statements about the past. They are by nature partial, gradual and defeasible. The antirealist is then faced with two problems. One is to account for a notion of historical significance, either in terms of causal links, broad patterns, or jus…Read more
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12Pourquoi les mathématiques sont-elles difficiles?LÉNY OUMRAOU Paris: Vuibert, « Philosophie des sciences » series, 2009; 216 pp.; €24.70 (review)Dialogue 54 (2): 389-392. 2015.
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19Le nécessaire et l’universel—Analyse et critique de leur corrélation (review)History and Philosophy of Logic 38 (1): 87-89. 2017.The book under review, which was awarded the prestigious Jean Cavaillès prize in 2015, offers an original investigation of the ‘correlation problem’: Is every universal truth necessary? Is every ne...
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29Empiricism, Rational Belief and ObjectivityPhilosophy of Science. 2010.There are several ways of conceiving objectivity -- scientific objectivity in particular -- and, accordingly, several ways of defending or attacking particular construals of it. According to one conception sometimes labelled "realism", objectivity in science is a semantic, modal and metaphysical notion: a scientific theory is objective insofar as it tells the truth about the way the world is independently of its epistemic accessibility to us. So, for instance, the Newtonian theory of gravition i…Read more
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64An Anti-Realist Perspective on Language, Thought, Logic and the History of Analytic Philosophy: An Interview with Michael DummettPhilosophical Investigations 19 (1): 1-33. 1996.The interview took place in Oxford on 10 September 1992. While working from the tape on the text of the interview, I decided to gather references to books and articles in footnotes so that the reader may have a sense of the flow of the conversation. I then divided the text into sections, according to the topics which were discussed. Some material has been edited from the original transcript
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Michael Potter. Reason's Nearest Kin: Philosophies of Arithmetic from Kant to CarnapPhilosophia Mathematica 12 (3): 268-277. 2004.
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30Introduction à la philosophie du langage Daniel Laurier Collection «Philosophie et langage» Liège, Pierre Mardaga, 1993, 322 p (review)Dialogue 34 (2): 402-. 1995.
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14Daniel Laurier, dir., Essais sur le sens et la réalité, Montréal-Paris, Bellarmin-Vrin, « Collection Analytique - 2 », 1991, 239 p.Daniel Laurier, dir., Essais sur le sens et la réalité, Montréal-Paris, Bellarmin-Vrin, « Collection Analytique - 2 », 1991, 239 p (review)Philosophiques 22 (2): 523-532. 1995.
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