Archive | February, 2013

Expert Philosophical Intuitions

By on February 28, 2013 in Epistemology

In Dan’s epistemology seminar last semester, we spent the last portion of the class reading Herman Cappelen’s Philosophy without Intuitions. I don’t have a copy of it with me, so I’m going to play fast and loose with the citations (i.e. no citations). Philosophical intuitions are, according to him, understood to be sui generis. Their […]

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Some second-order thoughts on the composition debate

By on February 18, 2013 in Metaphysics, Puzzles

This is a short and *really* rough draft of some thoughts on composition. It’s really just some thoughts that were kicking around in my head for a while that I finally got down on paper. I ran the general idea by Dan Korman, who seemed to be unbothered by it, which in turn made me […]

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Philosophical Isms

By on February 14, 2013 in Puzzles

How plausible is it that, for every philosophical position to which we’ve given a name, there is a corresponding proposition such that to align oneself with the position is just to assent to that proposition? Philosophers have lots of positions that have earned names (see here for a partial list of isms, though not all […]

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