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... about the nature of the self or soul. His diagnosis has two main components: first, the positing of “Transcendental Illusion”—a pervasive intellectual illusion, modeled on perceptual illusion, which predisposes us to accept as sound certain invalid arguments for substantive theses about the nature...

...Jeffrey Sanford Russell; John Hawthorne Famous results by David Lewis show that plausible-sounding constraints on the probabilities of conditionals or evaluative claims lead to unacceptable results, by standard probabilistic reasoning. Existing presentations of these results rely on stronger...

... perceptual parts, and (3) viewing multimodal aspects of visual experience as exceptional rather than expected. An additional theme, addressed in chapter 6, concerns the audition of speech sounds and argues that meanings are not among the properties of speech that can be heard. In my view this chapter stands...

... fifteen interrelated chapters, whose titles transparently indicate their concerns, and whose sequence suggests the progression of the book as a whole, from foundational issues in metaphys- ics and philosophy of mind to ones dealing with the place of music in the world: “Sound,” “Tone...

... interpretation faces the same problem over again: the sense-organs do not literally take on odors and sounds, for these organs function just like media and the media do not themselves have odors and sounds present in them. This argumentative strategy is far less compelling in its application...

... understand and accept), they all essentially beg the question against perfectionists, since on the latter view, certain moral principles and not others are claimed to be sound; such sound moral principles, then, compete with the liberal prin- ciple of legitimacy (and its equivalents) on all fours...

... is correct. I have largely been arguing in the material mode, but many of the same considerations translate into the formal mode. Most simply, when the circumstances are as I've assumed, the following sound bad: (1) #I believe whichever of Homerism and anti-Homerism is true. 15 (2) #I believe...

... as though ( Button ) and ( Button  = ) are not exactly saying the same thing. For some, ( Button  = ) sounds marked, though it is unclear what to make of this, since (a) the intuition is not universally held, and (b) the oddity of ( Button  = ) might stem from the fact that we do not often go around...

... principle of [modern] philosophy is the opinion concerning colours, sounds, tastes, smells, heat and cold; which it asserts to be nothing but impressions in the mind, derived from the operation of external objects, and without any resemblance to the qualities of the objects. —David Hume, A Treatise...

... standard of flatness. Another shared feature of simple sentences and other loose speech is that in addition to the use of explicit slack regulators, the use of precise speech often raises the standards of precision at a context. 15 This fact helps explain why it often sounds bad to elaborate loose...

... in virtue of its form. As I pointed out in my 1997, TCFS can be proved if the FS logic in question is standard first-order logic, and indeed if it is any logic for which there is a set of proof rules that is sound and complete with respect to model-theoretic semantics. The key idea is due...

... of mathematics, and philosophy of language. The style is both entertaining and clear. The positions he argues for are so controversial as to sound almost insane. And yet the arguments he provides are illuminating and manage to make the positions seem almost like common sense. Both books are worth reading...

... the middle route. Here Scott discusses the controversial arguments distinguishing the lovers of sights and sounds from the philosophers. Part of the argument would seem to be directed to the lovers of sights and sounds, persuading them that they lack the knowledge that they think they have. Scott argues...

... neglect.” These states all involve intense focus, Jennings admits, but not attention. To some readers this may sound contradictory. Isn’t focus a kind of attention? Don’t these states of absorption involve stimulus selection and enhancement of relevant features, suppression of distractors, and other...

..., McNaughton and Rawling,2 and Little). I begin with the second group, for it is heterogeneous in a way that reflects disagreement on what the generalism-particularism debate is fundamentally about. In the most general terms, the issue is whether sound moral judgment depends on a suitable provision...

... Principle (CKP): if one knows that p and one knows that q, and one knows that r, and , , , then it is rational to believe that p and q and r, and . . . . Now imagine that when Bob is in a certain experiential state, there is a 99% chance that there is a sound in his immediate environment. Imagine...

... Sickness or Pain is in Manna. Take away the Sensation of them; let not the Eyes see Light, or Colours, nor the Ears hear Sounds; let the Palate not 58 LOCKE’S COLORS Taste, nor the Nose Smell, and all Colours, Tastes, Odors, and Sounds...

... insight into normative truths is the central innovation in Skorupski's revision to critical philosophy, which he calls “the normative view” (18). Earlier efforts at critical philosophy, notably Kant's and that which came to be associated with Wittgenstein and the Vienna Circle, failed to provide a sound...

... seems to base his own account of linguistic practice on written statements by linguists (and philosophers) that, in my opinion, are often taken out of context. Let’s consider these concerns in order. 1. On the Soundness of Devitt’s Arguments When Devitt defends his positive thesis on the relation...

... seems to base his own account of linguistic practice on written statements by linguists (and philosophers) that, in my opinion, are often taken out of context. Let’s consider these concerns in order. 1. On the Soundness of Devitt’s Arguments When Devitt defends his positive thesis on the relation...