22 ideas
9593 | Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama [Williamson] |
14767 | The demonstrations of the metaphysicians are all moonshine [Peirce] |
14764 | I am saturated with the spirit of physical science [Peirce] |
9594 | Correspondence to the facts is a bad account of analytic truth [Williamson] |
9601 | The realist/anti-realist debate is notoriously obscure and fruitless [Williamson] |
9599 | There cannot be vague objects, so there may be no such thing as a mountain [Williamson] |
9602 | Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness [Williamson] |
9598 | Modal thinking isn't a special intuition; it is part of ordinary counterfactual thinking [Williamson] |
16536 | Williamson can't base metaphysical necessity on the psychology of causal counterfactuals [Lowe on Williamson] |
9596 | We scorn imagination as a test of possibility, forgetting its role in counterfactuals [Williamson] |
14768 | Infallibility in science is just a joke [Peirce] |
9597 | There are 'armchair' truths which are not a priori, because experience was involved [Williamson] |
14765 | Association of ideas is the best philosophical idea of the prescientific age [Peirce] |
9592 | Intuition is neither powerful nor vacuous, but reveals linguistic or conceptual competence [Williamson] |
20181 | When analytic philosophers run out of arguments, they present intuitions as their evidence [Williamson] |
14766 | Duns Scotus offers perhaps the best logic and metaphysics for modern physical science [Peirce] |
9595 | You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson] |
9600 | If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson] |
22265 | I can't defend the view that the majority values of a community are thereby right [Sandel] |
22267 | In the liberal view an insult to my group doesn't hurt me, since I'm defined by choices not groups [Sandel] |
22268 | If persons define themselves by a group membership, insults to that group are a real harm [Sandel] |
22266 | The case for religious liberty depends on the religion contributing to a morally good life [Sandel] |