The Analytic Scholastic

Sunday, March 20, 2016

Perceptual Representation: Pictures and Sounds, Seeing and Hearing

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Perceptions are representations . What representations are can be cashed out in several ways. First, they are about something. Second,...
Thursday, February 18, 2016

Russell on Existence in TPLA III: The Argument from Transferability

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In the last post we explained what Russell's views on existence are and how they entail a "higher-order" theory of existence ...
Sunday, February 14, 2016

Geach on Good and Evil: Some Counterexamples?

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In Peter Geach’s paper “Good and Evil” Geach draws a distinction between attributive adjectives and predicative adjectives. An adjective A, ...
Thursday, February 11, 2016

Russell on Existence in TPLA II: Russell's Second-Order View of Existence

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In my last post I introduced the topic of Russell on existence. Now I'll deliver. Let’s see what Russell thinks. First, it is helpful...
Wednesday, February 10, 2016

Russell on Existence in TPLA I: Why Care?

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In the next few posts I'm going to talk about Bertrand Russell's views on existence as one finds them in his The Philosophy of Logic...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

Two New Papers: Aristotelian Structuralism/Metaphysics of Ineffability

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I just wanted to call to the attention of any readers that I've put up two papers from last semester! One is on the philosophy of mathem...
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Sunday, January 17, 2016

Quote: Milton Friedman: Free-Market Fundamentalist?

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Hardly. Despite his general skeptical tendency with respect to expansive government fiscal policy, Friedman acknowledges both the necessity ...
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I'm Alfredo. I graduated with my bachelor's degree from UCLA. I am now a doctoral student in philosophy at UNC Chapel Hill. Though my interests are broad, my main philosophical focuses are in metaphysics, philosophy of mathematics, and political and legal philosophy. I am also an amateur pianist.
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