Analytic Philosophy

By Robert Hanna *** TABLE OF CONTENTS 0. Introduction 1. The Essential Embodiment Theory Briefly and Compactly Re-Presented and Re-Motivated 2. Three Later Significant Elaborations and Extensions of The Essential Embodiment Theory: Natural Libertarianism, The Neo-Organicist Worldview, and The Metaphysics of Liberal Naturalism 3. One Cheer, But Only One, For Analytic Panpsychism 00. Concluding Semi-Autobiographical Quasi-Whiteheadian Postscript

These are some notes I’ve took from Luca Moretti’s paper Phenomenal Conservatism. [1] Also from Micheal Huemer’s IEP post [2]. Phenomenal conservatism is the belief that the way things appear or seem to be is a source of epistemic justification. According to phenomenal conservatism, one can have some reason for…

Skepticism about the External World The type of skepticism that Moore was concerned with refuting was of the kind that argues that our beliefs are unjustified. So the skeptic isn’t trying to argue that the external world does not exist, but rather that we have no good reason to believe the external world exists, or…

Wittgenstein’s epistemology can be traced back to his groundbreaking book On Certainty where he writes: 341. The questions that we raise and our doubts depend on the fact that some propositions are exempt from doubt, are as it were like hinges on which those turn. 342. That is to say…

Dualism and monism alike are responding to the mind-body problem although in opposite directions. For the dualist, the mind is distinct from the body, whilst for the monist, the mind is no different than the body. Kripke defends the dualism of properties, but does not extend this to substances, distinguishing…

“Someone, let’s say, a baby, is born; his parents call him a certain name. They talk about him to their friends. Other people meet him. Through various sorts of talk the name is spread from link to link as if by a chain. A speaker who is on the far…

Affirms Analytic Synthetic Distinction (Denies Synthetic A Priori) Analytic: Apriori and Necessary Synthetic: A Posteriori and Contingent Meaningful and Senseless Propositions Meaningful: Analytic and Synthetic Senseless: Metaphysical and Non-Verifiable and Synthetic A Priori Demarcation Problem Is there a line that can be drawn between things that are meaningful and things…

Here are some notes I took and my thoughts on the metajustification objection and responses to Phenomenal Conservatism. Metajustification is a major challenge for Phenomenal Conservatism. A “metajustification” is a justification of believing that one’s pruported justification for (P) really makes P more likely to be true. (MJ1) What grounds…

Kripke inherits a paradigm which seeks to produce an encompassing account of epistemology, mobilised as a critique of scientific knowledge, and a means of fixing reference. In this paradigm, there exists a threefold distinction between analyticity and syntheticity, necessity and contingency, and a prioricity and a posteriority. Here, if a…