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Collard, J. 54 Comito, T. 198 Condor, J. 205n2 Condry, E. 87-8, 90, 91In Andrew Dawson, Jennifer Lorna Hockey & Andrew H. Dawson (eds.), After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology, Routledge. pp. 264. 1997.
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10Bolzano & Kant (edited book)BRILL. 2012.Inhaltsverzeichnis/Table of Contents Themenschwerpunkt/Special Topic: Bolzano & Kant Gastherausgeber/Guest Editor: Sandra Lapointe Sandra Lapointe: Introduction Sandra Lapointe: Is Logic Formal? Bolzano, Kant and the Kantian Logicians Nicholas F. Stang: A Kantian Reply to Bolzano¿s Critique of Kant¿s Analytic-Synthetic Distinction Clinton Tolley: Bolzano and Kant on the Place of Subjectivity in a Wissenschaftslehre Timothy Rosenkoetter: Kant and Bolzano on the Singularity of Intuitions Waldemar …Read more
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3How to Take Truth as a Goal?In Christoph Jäger & Winfried Löffler (eds.), Epistemology: Contexts, Values, Disagreement. Papers of the 34th International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium in Kirchberg, 2011, The Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. pp. 203-214. 2007.
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7Quine's Ladder: Two and a Half Pages from the Philosophy of LogicIn Felicia Ackerman (ed.), Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 1981.This chapter contains sections titled: Redundancy, Utility, and Disquotation Limited Redundancy: A Dilemma Utility and Quine's Ladder A Variant Ladder and Dis‐That‐ISM Climbing the Ladder? Affirming a Lot of Sentences Needing the Truth Predicate? References.
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24Analytic Epistemology and Armchair PsychologyActa Analytica 38 (1): 45-52. 2023.Critical comments on Guido Melchior’s book, Knowing and Checking: An Epistemological Investigation (2019). In the second part of his book, Melchior aims to employ his sensitivity account of the epistemic concept of checking to explain well-known puzzle cases about knowing. My comments focus on Melchior’s explanation of knowledge-closure puzzles, as exemplified by Dretske’s zebra case. I raise three critical points about the explanation Melchior proposes for puzzles of this type.
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4Nonexistence and Reid’s Conception of ConceivingGrazer Philosophische Studien 26 (1): 585-599. 1985.Brentano's famous thesis of the Intentionality of the Mental was already formulated by Thomas Reid who used it in his campaign against the Locke-Berkeley-Hume Theory of Ideas. Apphed to the case of conceiving the thesis says that to conceive is to conceive something. This principle stands in apparent conflict with the common-sensical view, defended by Reid, that we can conceive what does not exist. Both principles, it is argued, are plausible and should be retained. The problem is how to resolve…Read more
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25Mind, Meaning and Metaphysics: The Philosophy and Theory of Language of Anton Marty (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1): 229-232. 1993.
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28Anti-RealismDisputatio 8 (43): 173-185. 2016.According to metaphysical realism, we would have to compare our thought with mind-independent reality, if we want to gain knowledge about the world. Such a comparison is impossible. Yet we can gain knowledge about the world. So metaphysical realism is false. — I take this to be the historically most influential argumentative line opposing metaphysical realism. The paper develops this argument, the Main Anti-Realist Argument, in more detail and offers a brief critical discussion of its crucial as…Read more
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563Analyticity, Carnap, Quine, and TruthPhilosophical Perspectives 10 281-296. 1996.Quine’s paper “Two Dogmas of Empiricism” is famous for its attack on analyticity and the analytic/synthetic distinction. But there is an element of Quine’s attack that should strike one as extremely puzzling, namely his objection to Carnap’s account of analyticity. For it appears that, if this objection works, it will not only do away with analyticity, it will also do away with other semantic notions, notions that (or so one would have thought) Quine does not want to do away with, in particular,…Read more
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33Review Essay: Working Without a Net: A Study of Egocentric EpistemologyWorking Without a Net: A Study of Egocentric EpistemologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (4): 943. 1996.
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Philosophische Aufsätze zu Ehren von Roderick M. ChisholmRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 178 (3): 359-360. 1988.
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Substantivism and Deflationism in the Theory of TruthDissertation, The University of Arizona. 1990.The main concern of this work is to understand and evaluate the debate between substantivism and deflationism in the theory of truth. According to substantive theories, truth consists in, and has to be explained in terms of, a special relation between the truth bearing item and reality. According to deflationism, such theories offer a needlessly inflated account of truth. ;Chapter one sketches a paradigmatic substantive theory of truth that explains the notion of truth by invoking the notions of…Read more
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8Truth as the Epistemic GoalIn Knowledge, Truth, and Duty, Oxford University Press. pp. 151-169. 2001.
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Horwich's WorldIn Patrick Greenough & Michael Patrick Lynch (eds.), Truth and realism, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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8Some t-biconditionalsIn B. Armour-Garb & J. C. Beall (eds.), Deflationary Truth, Open Court. pp. 382--419. 2005.The T-biconditionals, also known as T-sentences or T-equivalences, play a very prominent role in contemporary work on truth. It is widely held that they are so central to our understanding of truth that conformance with them is indispensable to any account of truth that aspires to be adequate. Even “deflationists” and “inflationists” tend to agree on this point; their debate turns largely on just how central a role these biconditionals can play in a theory of truth. In the present paper, I want …Read more
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12PropositionenGrazer Philosophische Studien 23 (1): 37-58. 1985.Die Frage nach der Existenz von Propositionen, aufgefaßt als abstrakte und allgemeine Gegenstände, ist einer der Zankäpfel des Universalienstreites in seiner heutigen Form. Da der Verfasser in diesem Streit auf der Seite jener steht, die, wie Piaton sagt, "alles aus dem Himmel und dem Unsichtbaren auf die Erde herabziehen", werden einige Überlegungen angestellt, die darauf abzielen, platonistische Argumente zu unterminieren, welche häufig im Rahmen einer realistischen Bedeutungstheorie sowie im …Read more
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15Logical, Ontological, and Historical Contributions on the Philosophy of Alexius Meinong (edited book)De Gruyter. 2014.
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12Non-Existence and Reid's Conception of ConceivingGrazer Philosophische Studien 25 (1): 585-599. 1985.Brentano's famous thesis of the Intentionality of the Mental was already formulated by Thomas Reid who used it in his campaign against the Locke-Berkeley-Hume Theory of Ideas. Apphed to the case of conceiving the thesis says that to conceive is to conceive something. This principle stands in apparent conflict with the common-sensical view, defended by Reid, that we can conceive what does not exist. Both principles, it is argued, are plausible and should be retained. The problem is how to resolve…Read more
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24Truth and IdentityIn J. K. Campbell & M. O'Rourke (eds.), Meaning and Truth: Investigations in Philosophical Semantics., . 2002.According to a classical correspondence theory of truth, a proposition is true iff it corresponds to a fact. The approach has its competitors. One of them, the identity theory of truth, pushes for a surprising simplification. It says that true propositions do not correspond to facts, they are facts. Some find this view too bizarre to be taken seriously. Some are attracted to it because they worry that the correspondence theory opens a gap between our thoughts and reality--a gap that, once opened…Read more
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6Das Problem des Kriteriums und der Common SenseGrazer Philosophische Studien 28 (1): 3-16. 1986.Es gibt zwei Schlüsselfragen in der Theorie der Erkenntnis: ''Was wissen wir?" und "Wie wissen wir?". Chisholm hat argumentiert, daß uns der Versuch, diese Fragen zu beantworten, in eines der wichtigsten und schwierigsten philosophischen Probleme führt: in das Problem des Kriteriums. In dieser Arbeit wird in erster Linie die dem Common Sense verpflichtete Position des "Partikularismus" betrachtet, die von Chisholm als Lösung des Problems des Kriteriums vorgeschlagen wurde. Dabei wird der Frage n…Read more
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145Review: From a Deflationary Point of View (review)Mind 116 (462): 427-434. 2007.The review of this collection is primarily concerned with essays pertaining to Horwich's deflationary approaches to truth and meaning.
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Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |
Areas of Interest
Metaphysics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
17th/18th Century Philosophy |