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94Conative Transcendental Arguments and the Question Whether There Can Be External ReasonsIn Robert Stern (ed.), Transcendental Arguments: Problems and Prospects, Oxford University Press. pp. 271--292. 1999.A characterization of transcendental arguments is proffered, whereby they yield conclusions about how things are via intermediate conclusions about how we must think that they are. A variant kind of argument is then introduced. Arguments of this variant kind are dubbed ‘conative’ transcendental arguments: these yield conclusions about how it is desirable for things to be via intermediate conclusions about how we must desire that they are. The prospects for conative transcendental arguments are…Read more
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1Wittgenstein and infinityIn Marie McGinn & Oskari Kuusela (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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1Hacker, PMS-Wittgenstein's Place in Twentieth-Century Analytic PhilosophyPhilosophical Books 38 242-244. 1997.
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3The transcendental doctrine of methodIn Paul Guyer (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Kant's Critique of Pure Reason, Cambridge University Press. 2010.
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Vats, sets, and titsIn Joel Smith & Peter Sullivan (eds.), Transcendental Philosophy and Naturalism, Oxford University Press. pp. 41--54. 2011.
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Carruthers, Peter, "Tractarian Semantics: Finding Sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus" (review)Mind 99 (n/a): 482. 1990.
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1373On the Necessity of the CategoriesPhilosophical Review 131 (2). 2022.For Kant, the human cognitive faculty has two sub-faculties: sensibility and the understanding. Each has pure forms which are necessary to us as humans: space and time for sensibility; the categories for the understanding. But Kant is careful to leave open the possibility of there being creatures like us, with both sensibility and understanding, who nevertheless have different pure forms of sensibility. They would be finite rational beings and discursive cognizers. But they would not be human. A…Read more
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15Review. Metaphysical myths, mathematical practice: The ontology and epistemology of the exact sciences. Jody AzzouniBritish Journal for the Philosophy of Science 47 (4): 621-626. 1996.
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124Williams on ethics, knowledge, and reflectionPhilosophy 78 (3): 337-354. 2003.The author begins with an outline of Bernard William's moral philosophy, within which he locates William's notorious doctrine that reflection can destroy ethical knowledge. He then gives a partial defence of this doctrine, exploiting an analogy between ethical judgements and tensed judgements. The basic idea is that what the passage of time does for the latter, reflection can do for the former: namely, prevent the re-adoption of an abandoned point of view (an ethical point of view in the one cas…Read more
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70Is the feeling of unity that Kant identifies in his third critique a type of inexpressible knowledge?Philosophy 82 (3): 475-485. 2007.Kant, in his third Critique, confronts the issue of how rule-governed objective judgement is possible. He argues that it requires a particular kind of aesthetic response to one's experience. I dub this response 'the Feeling of Unity', and I raise the question whether it is a type of inexpressible knowledge. Using David Bell's account of these matters as a touchstone, I argue that it is.