Two dogmas of empiricism

Mad pain and Martian pain

16 Mad Pain and Martian Pain David Lewis l There might be a strange man who
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The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics

The Feasibility of Jumping to the Other Building

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The paradoxes of time travel

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Defining'intrinsic'

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Is justified true belief knowledge?

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L. GETTIER V ARIOUS attempts have been made in recent ...

Knowing how

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knowing that something is the case and knowing how to do something. According to
Gilbert Ryle, to whom the insight is credited, knowledge-how is an ability,  ...

Time and Change

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Grue!: the new riddle of induction

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Lewis on Finkish Dispositions

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University ... Finkish dispositions are dispositions which are lost precisely in ...

Causes and Laws

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is to show how causes and laws of nature are related. ...

Mental events

Mental Events Donald Davidson Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings,
decisions, and actions re- sist capture in the nomological net of physical
theory. 1 How can this fact be reconciled with the causal role of mental  ...

Time without change

... I2, JUNE 19, I969 TIME WITHOUT CHANGE ... The possibility of what I have described so
far is compatible with the claim that there can be no time without change. ...

SPEAKER'S REFERENCE and SEMANTIC REFERENCE 1

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SPEAKER’S REFERENCE AND SEMANTIC REFERENCE’ SAUL KRIPKE 1 am going to
discuss some issues inspired by a well-known paper ...

A puzzle about belief

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names and belief. A moral or two will be drawn about some other arguments that
have occasionally been ad- vanced in this area, but my main thesis is a  ...

On denoting

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such as any one of the following : a man, some man, any man, every man, all men,
the present King of England, the present King of France, the centre of mass  ...

Against one Reason for Thinking that Visual Experiences have Representational Content

Forthcoming in Philosophical Perspectives, 2007 issue.

There is a widely held view in the philosophy of perception that visual experiences have representational content. One reason that I sometimes hear given in support of this view is that when something looks a certain way, it makes sense to ask whether or not it is the way it looks. I argue that this is not a good reason to think that visual experiences have representational content.

New work for a theory of universals

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THEORY OF UNIVERSALS David Lewis Introduction. DM Armstrong offers a theory of
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Causation

55 6 THE JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY CAUSATION * HUME defined causation twice over. He
wrote "we may de- fine a cause to be an object followed by another, and where
all the objects, similar to the first, are followed by objects similar to  ...

Counterfactuals

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On the plurality of worlds

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Convention: A philosophical study

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The metaphysics of concepts

Any plausible philosophy of mind has to make some use, however reluctantly, of
ways of thinking or modes of presentation. The modes of presentation may be
called senses, or guises, or ways of taking something. I will call them  ...

How Are A Priori Truths Possible? 1

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Externalist explanation

I will be putting forward a thesis about how explanation by externalist states
works. My plan is to go on to indicate some of the consequences of this thesis
for a range of issues in the philo- sophy of mind. The range of issues  ...

Perceptual content

Colour concepts and colour experience

What is the relation between the concept of an object's being red on the one
hand and experiences as of red objects on the other? That is the recalcitrant
question to which this paper is addressed. 1 The question contains the term  ...

Nonconceptual content defended

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the many theses in John McDowell's Mind and World (1994) that I would like to
discuss, I confine myself here to the battery of arguments he directs  ...

Aesthetic value, objectivity, and the fabric of the world

Functionalism and anomalous monism

De re senses

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and thought can represent an utterance, or a propositional attitude, as  ...

The content of perceptual experience

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CONTENT OF PERCEPTUAL EXPERIENCE By John McDowell 1. Daniel Dennett's aim, in
his richly suggestive paper 'Toward a Cognitive Theory of Consciousness',1  ...

Non-cognitivism and rule-following

1 Non-cognitivists hold that ascriptions of value should not be conceived as
propositions of the sort whose correctness, or acceptability, consists in their
being true descriptions of the world; and, correlatively, that values are  ...

On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name1

I . An interesting way to raise questions about the relation between language
and reality is to ask: how could we state a theory know- ledge of which would
suffice for understanding a language? Donald Davidson has urged that a  ...

Are moral requirements hypothetical imperatives?

2. The terminology calls for some preliminary comment. As  ... Mrs Foot notes,
Kant's concern was not with imperatives on a  ... "But why should I?", it was
sufficient to reply "You just should,  ... Suppose, for instance, that we  ...

Values and secondary qualities

2 Given that Mackie is right about the phenomenology of value, an attempt to ac
cept the appearances makes it virtually ir resistible to appeal to a perceptual
model. Now Mackie holds that the model must be perceptual awareness of  ...

Criteria, defeasibility, and knowledge

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Virtue and reason

Truth and meaning

Molyneux's question

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question in a letter to Locke: Suppose a man born blind, and now adult, and
taught by his touch to distinguish between a cube and a sphere of the same  ...

Things without the mind

Understanding demonstratives

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has recently been claimed that the use of demonstrative or indexical expressions
like " today,"" yesterday,"" here,"" I,"" you"" this," etc., resists  ...

Reference and contingency

Can there be vague objects?

The causal theory of names

Page 1. THE CAUSAL THEORY OF NAMES Gareth Evans and J. E. J. Altham I-Gareth
Evans I i. In a paper which provides the starting point of this en- quiry
Saul Kripke opposes what he calls the Description Theory ...

Chopping up gunk

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87:33, 339-350, Hegeler Institute, 2004.

Epistemic modals in context

6 Epistemic Modals in Context ANDY EGAN, JOHN HAWTHORNE, AND BRIAN WEATHERSON In
the 19705 David Lewis argued for a contextualist treatment of modals (Lewis,
1976, 1979^). Although Lewis was primarily interested in modals connected  ...