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Truth, According to Analytic Philosophers, and as Seen By a Historian

This isn’t a commentary on the theories of truth as they’re expounded by analytic philosophers: it’s a commentary on Felipe Fernández…

3d ago

Truth, According to Analytic Philosophers, and as Seen By a Historian

3d ago

A Critic of Postmodernists, Constructivists, Feminists, Etc. Goes Too Far

This essay is a response to Mario Bunge’s paper ‘In Praise of Intolerance to Charlatanism in Academia’ (1996). This paper is certainly…

Mar 20

A Critic of Postmodernists, Constructivists, Feminists, Etc. Goes Too Far

Mar 20

Of Course Science Is a “Social Construction”!

This essay at least partially bounces off the title (though not the content) of a book called The Social Construction of What?, by the…

Mar 16

Of Course Science Is a “Social Construction”!

Mar 16

Did Saul Kripke Really Imagine Disembodied Pain?

Much has been said about the use of the imagination in philosophy. You find imaginative thought experiments all over the place…

Mar 13

Did Saul Kripke Really Imagine Disembodied Pain?

Mar 13

Problems With the Faithful Disciples of Wittgenstein

This essay will concentrate on a paper written by the English-American philosopher Gordon Park Baker. He is (or was) an influential…

Mar 10

Problems With the Faithful Disciples of Wittgenstein

Mar 10

A Few Problems with the “Magic” of Emergence and Supervenience

It’s been argued that the concepts of supervenience and emergence lack “explanatory power”. They’ve even been classed as “magic” (e.g., by…

Mar 7

A Few Problems with the “Magic” of Emergence and Supervenience

Mar 7

Is Wittgenstein’s Language Games Idea Both Conservative and Relativist?

The word “conservative” is used because if a language game (to quote Ernest Gellner) “constitutes [its] own automatic vindication”, then…

Mar 5

Is Wittgenstein’s Language Games Idea Both Conservative and Relativist?

Mar 5

The Impossibility and Possibility of Artificial Consciousness

There’s a long history of modal claims (involving possibility, impossibility, necessity, etc) about souls, minds, and, nowadays…

Mar 2

The Impossibility and Possibility of Artificial Consciousness

Mar 2

A Selective Retrospective on the Good and Bad of Logical Positivism

All philosophical movements and positions can be criticised and taken apart… All of them have been. Yet logical positivism seems to have…

Mar 1

A Selective Retrospective on the Good and Bad of Logical Positivism

Mar 1

Gilbert Ryle’s No-Nonsense Account of Ludwig Wittgenstein

The following essay is on Gilbert Ryle’s account of the life and work of Ludwig Wittgenstein, as found in the article ‘Ludwig…

Feb 27

Gilbert Ryle’s No-Nonsense Account of Ludwig Wittgenstein

Feb 27

Paul Austin Murphy

Paul Austin Murphy

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