The Analytic Scholastic

"My suggestion is that the gas's kinetic energy explains what it is for the gas to have the temperature it does. It does not expla...

"We may regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its past and the cause of its future. An intellect which at a certain...

I've always had difficulty understanding Aquinas's "moderate realist" view on universals, at least as that view is expound...

There are three answers one can give to the question: "When does composition occur?" (1) Always. (2) Sometimes. (3) Never. T...

Here's an interesting case of implicatures I noticed the other day when discussing what movie to watch with my wife. (>> means ...

A project I've been hoping to do eventually is to re-work the concept-containment notion of analyticity. Something has always seemed to...

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