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    What does the generality problem show?
    Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 82 (2). 2001.
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    Semantic Empiricism and Direct Acquaintance in The Philosophy of Logical Atomism
    Russell: The Journal of Bertrand Russell Studies 20 (1): 33-65. 2000.
    In _The Philosophy of Logical Atomism_, Russell defends a version of semantic empiricism according to which direct acquaintance with logical atoms is the source of our semantic capacities. Previous commentators have construed Russellian acquaintance in one of two ways: either as an act of _de re_ designation involving neither conceptualization nor propositional content, or as a species of belief _de re_, which does involve conceptualization or classification. I argue that two further, interim po…Read more
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    The Argument from Illusion Reconsidered
    Disputatio 1 (9): 2-9. 2000.
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    This essay is a response to the recent reemergence in the philosophical literature of direct acquaintance theories of epistemic justification and concept acquisition. A central difficulty that confronts proponents of direct acquaintance is that of providing an adequate account of the nature of the cognitive act involved in direct acquaintance. In this essay, I articulate two different approaches to this project. I distinguish those who claim that all acts of cognition involve conceptualization, …Read more