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23Comments on Hales: Relativism and the foundations of philosophyInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 (2). 2008.This Article does not have an abstract
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19Review of Cheryl Misak , New Pragmatists (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (5). 2008.
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18Many philosophers have suggested that belief predicates are ambiguous between a de dicto and a de re reading. However, the impression of ambiguity is a function of the narrow ranges of examples that philosophers focus on. When we consider our ascriptional practices as a whole, the suggestion that belief predicates are ambiguous is neither plausible nor needed to explain the de dicto/de re distinction. This paper will argue that understanding paradigmatic de dicto and de re ascriptions in terms o…Read more
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11This paper discusses the relationship between the views of James and Royce on representation and their attempts to explain the "possibility of error," views which are, I argue, closer than many have thought. Appreciating where they do differ will point not only to an unstressed problem with Royces' argument for the Absolute but also to some unappreciated features of how James' account of truth ties in with his account of epistemic justification.
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11Belief, Rationality, and Psychophysical LawsThe Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 9 47-54. 2000.Davidson has argued that the connection between belief and the “constitutive ideal of rationality” precludes the possibility of their being any type-type identities between mental and physical events. However, there are radically different ways to understand both the nature and the content of this “constitutive ideal,” and the plausibility of Davidson’s argument depends on blurring the distinction between two of these ways. Indeed, it will be argued here that no consistent understandingthe const…Read more
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10William James and the Moral Life: Responsible Self-Fashioning New by Todd Lekan (review)Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 59 (1): 105-109. 2023.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:Reviewed by:William James and the Moral Life: Responsible Self-Fashioning New by Todd LekanHenry JackmanBy Todd LekanWilliam James and the Moral Life: Responsible Self-Fashioning New York: Routledge, 2022. 156pp., incl. indexWhile William James wrote just a single article in theoretical ethics, it has often been said that ethical concerns animate almost all of his work.1 Indeed, there has been a growing interest in James’s moral phil…Read more
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5Belief, Rationality and Psychophysical LawsThe Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 35 124-129. 1998.Davidson argues that the connection between belief and the "constitutive ideal of rationality" precludes the possibility of their being any type-type identities between mental and physical events. However, there are radically different ways to understand both the nature and content of this "constitutive ideal," and the plausibility of Davidson’s argument depends on blurring the distinction between two of these ways. Indeed, it will be argued here that no consistent understanding of the constitut…Read more
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Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy, Volume 9: Philsophy of MindPhilosophy Documentation Center. 2000.
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Temporal externalism, constitutive norms, and theories of vaguenessIn Tomáš Marvan (ed.), What determines content?: the internalism/externalism dispute, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2006.
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William James's naturalistic account of concepts and his "rejection of logic"In Sandra Lapointe (ed.), Philosophy of mind in the nineteenth century, Routledge, Taylor & Francs Group. 2018.
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William JamesIn Cheryl Misak (ed.), The Oxford handbook of American philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2008.
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