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Gerecenseerde werken-bibilgraphische notities-Bermudez, jl (ed.), Thought, reference and experience. Themes from the philosophy of Gareth EvansTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (1): 184. 2007.
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De Twintigste Eeuw (review)Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 100 (3): 254-256. 2008.
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Vermazen, B. and Hintikka, Merrill B. , Essays on Davidson: Actions and EventsTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 51 (n/a): 316-329. 1989.
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Lynne Rudder Bakers opraktisch realismeAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 89 (3): 240-243. 1997.
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34Keeping Track of Pierre's Mind. A Davidsonian Solution to Kripke's Puzzle About BeliefIn Ulla Wessels & Georg Meggle (eds.), Analyōmen 1 =, De Gruyter. pp. 434-443. 1994.
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25Evolutionair revisionisme en de integriteit van het manifeste zelfbeeldTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 72 (1): 101-129. 2010.
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8Most attempts at defining or elucidating ’weak’ or ’strong’ supervenience introduce various forms of _physical indiscernibility_. After glancing at some definitions, I argue that they must fail if mental events are supposed to be genuinely causally efficacious and non-epiphenomenal. Then I elucidate Davidson’s account of supervenience (’D-supervenience’), first as an abstract relation between a predicate and a set of predicates (to be illustrated by uncontroversial examples), and then as applied…Read more
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47Relativism, Assertion, and Disagreement in Matters of TasteLogique Et Analyse 52 (208): 389-405. 2009.
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32Externalism, content, and causal historiesDialectica 48 (3-4): 267-86. 1994.SummaryExternalism in philosophy of mind is usually taken to be faced with the following difficulty: from the fact that meanings are externally individuated, it follows that the subjective character of mental states and events becomes problematic. On the basis of a well‐founded approach to similar problems in the philosophy of action, I propose a solution based on two connected issues: we should think of mental states not as beliefs, but as states of knowledge, and thought experiments, designed …Read more
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208The Epistemic Predicament of a Pseudoscience: Social Constructivism Confronts Freudian PsychoanalysisTheoria 77 (2): 159-179. 2011.Social constructivist approaches to science have often been dismissed as inaccurate accounts of scientific knowledge. In this article, we take the claims of robust social constructivism (SC) seriously and attempt to find a theory which does instantiate the epistemic predicament as described by SC. We argue that Freudian psychoanalysis, in virtue of some of its well-known epistemic complications and conceptual confusions, provides a perfect illustration of what SC claims is actually going on in s…Read more
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Semantiek en de zin van het leven Semantics and the Meaning of LifeBijdragen 59 (3): 315-337. 1998.In this essay, I show how semantic theories in contemporary philosophy of language shed light on questions about the meaning of life. Current semantic theories tend to defend various forms of holism in semantics: the meaning of a word or sentence is explained by its place in a pattern of sentences, a framework, or a language . A second feature of these theories is that semantic holism rejects the idea that we understand words and sentences on the basis of a pre-established theory which can be ap…Read more
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72Psychoanalytic Facts as Unintended Institutional FactsPhilosophy of the Social Sciences 42 (2): 239-269. 2012.We present an inference to the best explanation of the immense cultural success of Freudian psychoanalysis as a hermeneutic method. We argue that an account of psychoanalytic facts as products of unintended declarative speech acts explains this phenomenon. Our argument connects diverse, seemingly independent characteristics of psychoanalysis that have been independently confirmed, and applies key features of John Searle’s and Eerik Lagerspetz’s theory of institutional facts to the psychoanalytic…Read more
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Lacan begrijpen: Naar een hermeneutiek voor filosofische beweringenAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 98 (3). 2006.
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122Faultless Disagreement, Assertions and the Affective-Expressive Dimension of Judgments of TastePhilosophia 39 (4): 637-655. 2011.Contextualists and assessment relativists neglect the expressive dimension of assertoric discourse that seems to give rise to faultless disagreement. Discourse that generates the intuition makes public an attitudinal conflict, and the affective -expressive dimension of the contributing utterances accounts for it. The FD-phenomenon is an effect of a public dispute generated by a sequence of expressing opposite attitudes towards a salient object or state of affairs, where the protagonists are maki…Read more
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133Cigarettes, dollars and bitcoins – an essay on the ontology of moneyJournal of Institutional Economics 12 (2). 2016.What does being money consist in? We argue that something is money if, and only if, it is typically acquired in order to realise the reduction in transaction costs that accrues in virtue of agents coordinating on acquiring the same thing when deciding what thing to acquire in order to exchange. What kinds of things can be money? We argue against the common view that a variety of things (notes, coins, gold, cigarettes, etc.) can be money. All monetary systems are best interpreted as implementing …Read more
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17De lege blik. Antwoord op Van de Vijver en VanderbeekenAlgemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 99 217-229. 2007.
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184The Dark Side of the Loon. Explaining the Temptations of ObscurantismTheoria 81 (2): 126-142. 2014.After contrasting obscurantism with bullshit, we explore some ways in which obscurantism is typically justified by investigating a notorious test-case: defences of Lacanian psychoanalysis. Obscurantism abuses the reader's natural sense of curiosity and interpretive charity with the promise of deep and profound insights about a designated subject matter that is often vague or elusive. When the attempt to understand what the speaker means requires excessive hermeneutic efforts, interpreters are re…Read more
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16Review of JA Flieger, Is Oedipus Online? Sigmund Freud after Freud (review)Nexus 46 165-169. 2006.
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22Liefde de re: Over singuliere emotiesTijdschrift Voor Filosofie 62 (1). 2000.In this paper the author argues that love de re — love for a particular person — is an emotion that is singular in that the beloved person is an external constituent of that emotion. After comparing love de re with other de re attitudes, and distinguishing it from love de dicto, he rejects reductions of love de re to love de dicto. It will be demonstrated the lover must have a dynamic conception of the person he loves which is derived from historical connections with him or her. A merely causal …Read more
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Essential indexicality and the irreducibility of phenomenal conceptsCommunication and Cognition: An Interdisciplinary Quarterly Journal 34 (1-2): 75-97. 2001.
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Veldhuis, H., Geen begrip voor de ander. De kritiek van E. Levinas op de westerse filosofie, in het bijzonder op het denken van Husserl en Heidegger (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 53 (2): 383. 1991.