Posted in papers, Philosophy on Oct 18th, 2011
I have completed a draft of a new short discussion piece on Michael Blome-Tillmann’s (2009) Mind paper, “Knowledge and Presuppositions”. It is essentially a development of this blog post from a year and a half ago. (I’d forgotten about it, to be honest — I rediscovered it as I finished drafting.) My new paper: Ignorance [...]
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Posted in Philosophy on May 11th, 2011
According to David Lewis’s classic paper, “Scorekeeping in a Language Game,” conversations, like sporting matches, have scores, which characterize the current situation, and rules, which interact with scores to determine what is permissible. The score of a baseball game includes the number of runs scored, an indication of which team is batting, the number of [...]
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Posted in Philosophy on Oct 26th, 2009
Elusive There. Try to go there, and straightaway it disappears. That is how walking destroys there.
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