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Anti-Representationalism, Naturalism, and Placement Metaphysics
A perennial issue in contemporary philosophy is the question of how, in Wilfrid Sellars’ terms, categories of the ‘manifest image’ relate to those of...
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Why Naturalism cannot (Merely) be an Attitude
Varying forms of ontological and methodological naturalism are among the most popular theses in contemporary philosophy. However, each of these...
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Morality, Relativism, and Naturalism
In recent years, relativismRelativism has taken roots in moral philosophyWilliams, B. (Williams, Morality: An Introductions to Ethics, Cambridge...
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Animism and Naturalism: Practice and Theory
If animism is regarded as an ontology—a set of beliefs regarding the kinds of entities that exist—it is incompatible with naturalism: the idea that...
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Metasemantics and boydian synthetic moral naturalism
This paper argues against Boydian synthetic moral naturalism by way of a critical examination at metasemantic issues. I first show that the Boydian...
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Anti-Representationalism, Realism, and Anti-Realism
ARTL rejects metaphysical realism (MR): it sees Representationalism as integral to this idea, and since Representationalism is incoherent, so is MR....
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On Husserl’s Twin Earth
In a 1911 research manuscript, Husserl puts forth an idea that resembles Putnam’s Twin Earth thought experiment presented in the 1970s. In this...
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The Putnam-McDowell Controversy on Perception and the Relevant Sciences
A large part of Hilary Putnam’s latest work is spent on disagreeing with John McDowell’s conceptualist view of perception which has been expressed in M...
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Being a Direct Realist – Searle, McDowell, and Travis on ‘seeing things as they are’
The aim of the present article is to identify and analyze three particular disputes among current proponents of perceptual realism which may throw...
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Toward a Pragmatically Naturalist Metaphysics of the Fact-Value Entanglement: Emergence or Continuity?
Pragmatists, early and late, have heavily criticized the so-called fact-value dichotomy. Hilary Putnam (1990, 1994, 2002a, 2004a), in particular,...
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Brains in Vats
This chapter is a relatively self-standing essay that takes up how we should best understand the famous ‘brains in vats’ (BIV) thought experiment and...
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Quine, Carnap, and Analyticity
Amongst contemporary naturalists, under Quine’s influence, it is assumed that the rejection of the analytic/synthetic distinction is necessary for or...
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Neopragmatism as a solution to Twin Earth problems
Twin Earth thought experiments are a standard philosophical tool for those offering, or criticizing, metasemantic theories: theories that attempt...
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Global Expressivism
This chapter is a critical discussion global expressivism (GE), the version of ARTL that Price defends. It revolves around two main issues. The first...
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History, historiography, and stories of logical empiricism
Histories of philosophy usually incorporate logical empiricism into the story of either analytic philosophy or empiricism. Alan Richardson’s Logical...
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Wittgenstein’s ‘Grammatical Naturalism’
The dominant interpretation of the later Wittgenstein as a naturalist is that he endorses a form of liberal naturalism. This chapter argues that...
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Hilary Putnam on Perspectivism and Naturalism
In this chapter, I analyze the different views that Hilary Putnam developed during the seven decades of his brilliant philosophical career in order...
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Ethics and Metaphysics
Ethics and metaphysics often go together. However, it has been held notably by Putnam (2004) that ethics can go without metaphysics.
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The metaphysical as the ethical: a pragmatist reading of Wang Yangming’s “The Mind Is the Principle”
This paper explores a late-Ming Chinese philosopher Wang Yangming’s (1472–1529) philosophical assertions showcasing the pivotal role that human mind...