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 ...
Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Defending the New Natural Law's Incommensurability Thesis

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New Natural Law (NNL) usually gets a bad rap from certain Thomists due to its embracing the "incommensurability thesis." I'll ...
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Friday, November 6, 2015

External Reasons: A Natural Law Response to Williams

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In my last post I criticized Bernard Williams' rather Humean argument in "Internal and External Reasons" for arguing that ext...
Thursday, November 5, 2015

Bernard Williams on Internal Reasons (Contra Natural Law)

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Here is a short precis I wrote for my meta-ethics class about Bernard Williams' argument for internalism about reasons. Internalism abo...
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...