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Truths, Facts, And Liars, Peter Marton
Truths, Facts, And Liars, Peter Marton
Philosophy Faculty Publications
A Moderate Anti-realist (MAR) approach to truth and meaning, built around the concept of knowability, will be introduced and argued for in this essay. Our starting point will be the two fundamental anti-realists principles that claim that neither truth nor meaning can outstrip knowability and our focus will be on the challenge of adequately formalizing these principles and incorporating them into a formal theory. Accordingly, the author will introduce a MAR truth operator that is built on a distinction between being true and being factual. He will show then that this approach partitions propositions into eight classes, on the basis …
[Review Of The Book Disagreement By Brian Frances], James Pearson
[Review Of The Book Disagreement By Brian Frances], James Pearson
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Review of the book Disagreement by Bryan Frances. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2014.
Natural Law And Spontaneous Order In The Work Of Gary Chartier, Aeon Skoble
Natural Law And Spontaneous Order In The Work Of Gary Chartier, Aeon Skoble
Philosophy Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.
Systematizing Nyāya, Matthew R. Dasti
Systematizing Nyāya, Matthew R. Dasti
Philosophy Faculty Publications
Review of: Epistemology in Classical India: The Knowledge Sources of the Nyāya School. By Stephen Phillips. New York and London: Routledge, 2012. ISBN 978-0415895545.
Too Soon To Say, Edward W. James
Too Soon To Say, Edward W. James
Philosophy Faculty Publications
(1) Rupert Read charges that Rawls culpably overlooks the politicized Euthyphro: Do we accept our political perspective because it is right or is it right because we accept it? (2) This charge brings up the question of the deficiency dilemma: Do others disagree with us because of our failures or theirs? – where the two dilemmas appear to be independent of each other and lead to the questions of the logic of deficiency, moral epistemic deficiency, epistemic peers, and the hardness of philosophy. (3) In reply, on an expanded principle of charity Rawls does not overlook the Euthyphro but …
Parasitism And Disjunctivism In Nyāya Epistemology, Matthew Dasti
Parasitism And Disjunctivism In Nyāya Epistemology, Matthew Dasti
Philosophy Faculty Publications
This article examines a number of arguments I collectively term arguments from parasitism, which Nyāya employs to illustrate that rational reflection, the institution of language, and even error itself presuppose a ground-level basis of veridical cognitive interaction with the world. It further suggests that by such arguments, coupled with its stress on the inerrancy of pramāṇ as, Nyāya anticipates and supports the contemporary philosophical movement known as (epistemological) disjunctivism.
Comment And Discussion: Pramāņa Are Factive - A Response To Jonardon Ganeri, Matthew Dasti, Stephen H. Phillips
Comment And Discussion: Pramāņa Are Factive - A Response To Jonardon Ganeri, Matthew Dasti, Stephen H. Phillips
Philosophy Faculty Publications
In this article, the author discusses aspects of the review made by Jonardan Ganeri on the collaborative translation of the first chapter of “Epistemology of Perception: Ga·ngeśa’s Tattvacintāma·ni, Jewel of Reflection on the Truth (About Epistemology): The Perception Chapter (Pratyak·sa-Kha·n·da),” by Stephen Phillips and N. S. Ramanuja Tatacharya. The author says that Ganeri argues in opposition of Phillips’ and Ramanuja Tatacharya’ interpretation on the nature of pramā·na
A Reasoned Ethical Incoherence?, Edward W. James
A Reasoned Ethical Incoherence?, Edward W. James
Philosophy Faculty Publications
No abstract provided.