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Ideas for 'Causes and Counterfactuals', 'Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis' and 'Relativism'

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1. Philosophy / C. History of Philosophy / 5. Modern Philosophy / d. Contemporary philosophy

4697	There has been a distinct 'Social Turn' in recent philosophy, like the earlier 'Linguistic Turn' [O'Grady]
	Full Idea: The Social Turn is as defining a characteristic of contemporary philosophy as the Linguistic Turn has been of the earlier twentieth century period.
	From: Paul O'Grady (Relativism [2002], Ch.1)
	A reaction: A helpful observation. It ties in with externalism about concepts (Twin Earth), impossibility of Private Language, and externalism about knowledge.

1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 6. Metaphysics as Conceptual

11103	We aren't stuck with our native conceptual scheme; we can gradually change it [Quine]
	Full Idea: We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it bit by bit, plank by plank.
	From: Willard Quine (Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis [1950], 5)
	A reaction: This is an interesting commitment to Strawson's 'revisionary' metaphysics, rather than its duller cousin 'descriptive' metaphysics. Good for Quine. Remember, though, Davidson's 'On the Very Idea of Conceptual Scheme'.