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26A New Approach to Berkeley's Ideal RealityIn Robert G. Muehlmann (ed.), Berkeley's Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays, The Pennsylvania State University Press. pp. 65-78. 1995.
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Non-Euclidean geometry and relative consistency proofsIn Peter K. Machamer & Robert G. Turnbull (eds.), Motion and Time, Space and Matter, Ohio State University Press. 1976.
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43Descartes' Dualism (review)Journal of the History of Philosophy 36 (2): 318-320. 1998.318 JOURNAL OF THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY 36:2 APRIL 1998 stress should not be placed on Spinoza's excommunication . One among many who held radical views and during a period of unrest brought on by an influx of emigration, Spinoza was dealt the same punishment as those who failed to pay their communal dues. The apt conclusion drawn is that from the perspective of the commu- nity, this excommunication was of no great significance. Such history corrects earlier interpretations and helps readers to…Read more
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23Identifying identityErkenntnis 25 (3). 1986.Nelson Goodman argues against those who, like Carnap, claim extensional identity is the criterion for correct constructional definition. Goodman argues that internal logical difficulties sink such a criterion, thus he proposes his own criterion of extensional isomorphism. We argue that Goodman's criterion itself falls prey to his own arguments or else extensional identity is not shown faulty
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44Adhering to Inherence: A New Look at the Old Steps in Berkeley's March to IdealismCanadian Journal of Philosophy 14 (3). 1984.When Keats identified truth and beauty, he surely intended mere extensionality. I myself have never had much trouble with either half of the equivalence. Others have considerable difficulty. A case in point is the Watson-Allaire-Cummins interpretation of Berkeley's idealism, which I shall refer to henceforth as the inherence account. That account is put forward to answer an extremely perplexing question in the history of philosophy: Why did Berkeley embrace idealism, i.e., why did he hold that e…Read more
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On Allaire's "Yet Another Visit"In Robert G. Muehlmann (ed.), Berkeley's Metaphysics: Structural, Interpretive, and Critical Essays, The Pennsylvania State University Press. 1995.
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23IV. Strawson on the traditional logicInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 12 (1-4): 254-259. 1969.In his Introduction to Logical Theory, Strawson argues that Aristotelian logic can be given a successful interpretation into ordinary English, but not into the symbolism of Principia Mathematica, on the grounds that Aristotelian logic and ordinary English share something absent in PM, namely, the doctrine of presupposition. It is argued that Strawson is mistaken. PM does justice to the logical rules of Aristotelian logic and also has a fully articulated doctrine of presupposition
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20Berkeley's Semantic Dilemma: Beyond the Inherence ModelHistory of Philosophy Quarterly 13 (2). 1996.
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1Solipsism and Berkeley's Alleged RealismRevue Internationale de Philosophie 22 (3): 403-412. 1968.
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14Howard Kahane, 1928-2001Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 75 (5). 2002.
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