So let’s talk about where I was headed with those last three posts on linguistic appropriateness. We had four cases […]

Confession time. I don’t have a good grasp as to what linguistic appropriateness is. But in so far as I […]

In this previous post, I briefly outlined how epistemologists sometimes take linguistic appropriateness into account. Let’s grant the judgements about […]

In this post, I want to illustrate a methodological assumption that is sometimes made in epistemology.The idea is that facts […]

Here’s an argument that the semantic content of some term is directly referential. It’s designed to mirror the regress argument […]

You know why Lewis Powell is awesome? He loves thinking about Frege’s Puzzle. You know why Lewis Powell is even […]

Here are two quotes from the first few pages in the new reader Experimental Philosophy edited by Joshua Knobe and […]

Consider the following theses. (A) For any person P, P exists iff P is alive. (B) For any person P, […]

Dan Korman just posted a nice little discussion on Hawthorne’s objection to common sense ontology here. I don’t dispute anything […]

Here’s a puzzle that Joan Weiner raises for supervaluationism from a recent PPQ paper. The basic idea is that supervaluationism […]