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24Review of Willem R. De Jong, Argumentatie en formele structuur (review)Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 98 316-318. 2006.
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22Compositionality, Aberrant Sentences and Unfamiliar SituationsIn Gerhard Schurz, Edouard Machery & Markus Werning (eds.), Applications to Linguistics, Psychology and Neuroscience, De Gruyter. pp. 63-82. 2005.
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De Twintigste Eeuw (review)Algemeen Nederlands Tijdschrift voor Wijsbegeerte 100 (3): 254-256. 2008.
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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.