21 ideas
9593 | Progress in philosophy is incremental, not an immature seeking after drama [Williamson] |
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] |
15148 | Powers give explanations, without being necessary for some class membership [Chakravartty] |
9602 | Common sense and classical logic are often simultaneously abandoned in debates on vagueness [Williamson] |
15145 | A kind essence is the necessary and sufficient properties for membership of a class [Chakravartty] |
15147 | Cluster kinds are explained simply by sharing some properties, not by an 'essence' [Chakravartty] |
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] |
9597 | There are 'armchair' truths which are not a priori, because experience was involved [Williamson] |
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] |
15144 | Explanation of causal phenomena concerns essential kinds - but also lack of them [Chakravartty] |
9595 | You might know that the word 'gob' meant 'mouth', but not be competent to use it [Williamson] |
6853 | Consequentialism wrongly assumes a clear line between an act and its consequences [Crisp,R] |
9600 | If languages are intertranslatable, and cognition is innate, then cultures are all similar [Williamson] |
15146 | Some kinds, such as electrons, have essences, but 'cluster kinds' do not [Chakravartty] |
15151 | Many causal laws do not refer to kinds, but only to properties [Chakravartty] |
6854 | Does the environment have value in itself? [Crisp,R] |