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126Précis of Assessment Sensitivity: Relative Truth and its ApplicationsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 92 (1): 168-170. 2016.
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286Boghossian, Bellarmine, and BayesPhilosophical Studies 141 (3): 391-398. 2008.As Paul Boghossian sees it, postmodernist relativists and constructivists are paralyzed by a “fear of knowledge.” For example, they lack the courage to say, in the face of the Lakotas’ claim that their ancestors came from inside the earth, that it is a matter of known fact that their ancestors came across the Bering Strait. To avoid this, they accept the nonconfrontational view Boghossian calls..
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403What Does It Mean to Say That Logic is Formal?Dissertation, University of Pittsburgh. 2000.Much philosophy of logic is shaped, explicitly or implicitly, by the thought that logic is distinctively formal and abstracts from material content. The distinction between formal and material does not appear to coincide with the more familiar contrasts between a priori and empirical, necessary and contingent, analytic and synthetic—indeed, it is often invoked to explain these. Nor, it turns out, can it be explained by appeal to schematic inference patterns, syntactic rules, or grammar. What doe…Read more
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