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2HolismIn W. Newton-Smith (ed.), A companion to the philosophy of science, Blackwell. 2000.The term “holism” refers to a variety of positions which have in common a resistance to understanding larger unities as merely the sum of their parts, and an insistence that we cannot explain or understand the parts without treating them as belonging to such larger wholes. Some of these issues concern explanation (see explanation). It is argued, for example, that facts about social classes are not reducible to facts about the beliefs and actions of the agents who belong to them; or it is claimed…Read more
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5Wittgenstein and NaturalismIn Hans-Johann Glock & John Hyman (eds.), A Companion to Wittgenstein, Wiley-blackwell. 2017.'Naturalism' is a controversial label in philosophy; it can express the rejection of all things supernatural and the refusal to embrace a priori rationalism. And it can also be presented as a manifestation of scientism, the refusal to draw any distinctions between philosophy and the sciences. One origin of contemporary debates about naturalism goes back to century‐old debates about psychologism in logic. John Stuart Mill, among others, claimed that psychology could provide theoretical foundation…Read more
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79Quine: Language, Experience, and RealityStanford University Press. 1988.Introduction Quine was born in. He studied as a graduate student at Harvard, and apart from short visits to Oxford, Paris and other centres of learning, ...
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21Comments on Essays from Conference “The Idea of Pragmatism”Transactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 51 (4): 397. 2015.My initial education in philosophy was in Oxford and in the philosophy of ‘ordinary language’ and the philosophy of language. My heroes were Wittgenstein and H.P Grice. I was intrigued by showing how metaphysical or ontological theories could be disposed of as lacking meaning. While I was studying for an M.A. at the University of East Anglia, I was taught by Martin Hollis who led me to read C.I. Lewis’s Mind and The World Order. The book was a challenge and I doubt that I understood all of it. T…Read more
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