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99Putnam’s Argument that the Claim that We are Brains-in-a-vat is Self-RefutingMeta: Research in Hermeneutics, Phenomenology, and Practical Philosophy 10 (1): 149-159. 2018.In Reason, Truth and History, Putnam provides an influential argument for the materialist view that the supposition that we are all “actually” brains in a vat [BIV’s] is “necessarily false”. Putnam admits that his argument, inspired by insights in Wittgenstein’s later views, is “unusual”, but he is certain that it is a correct. He argues that the claim that we are BIV’s is self-refuting because, if we actually are BIV’s, then we cannot refer to real physical things like vats. Although the presen…Read more
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15Kant's “Historicist” Alternative to Cognitive ScienceSouthern Journal of Philosophy 33 (2): 203-220. 1995.
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Linguistic creativityIn Rom Harré & Roy Harris (eds.), Linguistics and Philosophy: The Controversial Interface, Pergamon Press. pp. 125--164. 1993.
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94Heidegger on Authenticity, Freedom, and Individual AgencyInternational Studies in Philosophy 30 (2): 69-91. 1998.
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34David Avraham Weiner, "Genius and Talent: Schopenhauer's Influence on Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy" (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 31 (3): 469. 1993.
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47Bringing Cognitive Science Back to LifeIdealistic Studies 29 (3): 173-213. 1999.It is worth noting that Wittgenstein provides an argument against analyticity that Quine allows. For Wittgenstein holds that even explicit conventions cannot determine "how one is to go on". I do not mean that Wittgenstein objects to analyticity. But this means he accounts for it in precisely the sorts of ways that Quine mentions but fails to pursue.
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47Aristotle's Critique of Functionalist Theories of MindIdealistic Studies 30 (3): 209-232. 2000.The present paper argues that Burnyeat's view is fundamentally correct, but approaches the issues from a somewhat different angle. The claim that forAristotle the form and the matter are non-contingently related is an allusion to Aristotle's difficult doctrine of the unity of substances. The functionalist interpretation underestimates Aristotle's doctrine of the unity of substance. Irwin thinks that Aristotle's view is a version of functionalism but acknowledges that his claims go beyond what is…Read more
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11“The Cosmology of Cognitive Science from Hesiod, Socrates, and Plato to Wittgenstein”Athens Journal of Humanities and Arts 7 1-30. 2020.
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25Gale, Richard MInternet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2016.Richard M. Gale Richard Gale was an American philosopher known for defending the A-theory of time against the B-theory. The A-theory implies, for example, that tensed predicates are not reducible to tenseless predicates. Gale also argued against the claim that negative truths are reducible to positive ones. He created a new modal version of … Continue reading Gale, Richard M. →
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Albert Camus (1913-1960) French-Algerian Writer and Existentialist PhilosopherOnline Dictionary of Intercultural Philosophy. 2020.
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