The Analytic Scholastic

Friday, October 30, 2015

Ineffability: A Serious Threat to Ambitious Metaphysics

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Consider a squirrel on a tree. There are things we can represent that are simply not within the capacity of the squirrel's mental struct...
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Friday, October 16, 2015

Link: Amazing Philosophy Interviews with Bryan Magee

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I just wanted to share a very special link with any readers who happen upon my blog. Several years ago (probably about five or so years ag...
Friday, October 9, 2015

Greg Cavin on Bayes' Theorem and Miracles

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I wrote most of this post several months ago when my friend Calum Miller came to southern California for a semester abroad. Unfortunately, I...
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Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Shameless Hyperintensionalism in Ethics (And Other Areas)

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A hyperintensional position in a sentence is one where substitution of necessarily co-extensional statements does not preserve truth value. ...
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Friday, October 2, 2015

Review: 'An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics' by James Franklin

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I recently finished reading James Franklin's marvelous book, An Aristotelian Realist Philosophy of Mathematics , and I want to advertise...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2015

Link: Pope Francis: Marriage is Indissoluble

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Pope Francis states, in very clear terms, the traditional Catholic teaching on the indissolubility of marriage, here .

Quote: Foot Making Fun of Expressivists

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In her book ' Natural Goodness ' Philippa Foot criticizes (lightly mocks) expressivist accounts of moral evaluation because they see...
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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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