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“Hello”, “Ouch”, and “Snow is white” | The Horseless Telegraph
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Lewis Powell's Philosophy Blog. 8220;Hello”, “Ouch”, and “Snow is white”. I like the following three sentences as illustrating the sorts of different things we ideally want a complete philosophy of language to capture:. 1) “Snow is white”. 3) “Hello”. 8221; This is where sentences like, “Go to the store” and “Is Thomas at home? 8221; come in. If we extend our picture in the way necessary to account for “hello”, we don’t need to assign individual mental states to questions and comman...For what it is wort...
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Having Views is Overrated | The Horseless Telegraph
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Lewis Powell's Philosophy Blog. Having Views is Overrated. In this post, I am going to advocate for the position that having (first-order) philosophical views is overrated. I am going to take for granted that philosophical inquiry involves the pursuit of knowledge and understanding. It is to be culled. What is it that we need from a theory of X, that the culled theory can’t give us? What features of the culled theory are preventing it from meeting that need? Perhaps a briefer way to make my point is this...
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Young Philosophers Talk Series | The Horseless Telegraph
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Lewis Powell's Philosophy Blog. Young Philosophers Talk Series. I recently gave two talks for the Young Philosophers Series at SUNY Fredonia (or, more accurately, the “Philosophers who have been credentialed in the last six years or are about to be credentialed” Series). One talk is intended to be an introductory talk presupposing no background, the other is a research oriented talk. Here are the talks I gave:. Research Talk: “Adam Smith on Sympathy for the Deceased”. Feed You can leave a response. Centr...
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Monday Mill Blogging (#009) | The Horseless Telegraph
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Lewis Powell's Philosophy Blog. Monday Mill Blogging (#009). I’ve missed a couple of Mondays, but today: Monday Mill Blogging is back. Today’s post is the second that will cover book 1, chapter 2, section 5. 5 Connotative and Non-Connotative Names. Let’s just start with a quote:. Mill explains that while it is possible that multiple people jointly authored the Illiad, the presence of the word “the” renders the name individual:. This treatment of incomplete descriptions is especially interesting, as it il...
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What to Keep in Mind about Refereeing Work | The Horseless Telegraph
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Lewis Powell's Philosophy Blog. What to Keep in Mind about Refereeing Work. This post is motivated by some of my concerns relating to suggestions about unblinding the referees (as discussed here. While I agree that there are problems with the current state of the peer review system, I tend to disagree strongly with some proposed resolutions. During my last year as a graduate student at USC, I was managing editor of the. I learned a number of things from being “behind the scenes” at. While getting bad com...
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Lack of Posting | The Horseless Telegraph
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Lewis Powell's Philosophy Blog. Apologies for my lack of recent posting. The end of this past semester was keeping me busy, especially as I have been trying to wrap things up in the Detroit area, in anticipation of my move to Buffalo at the end of this month. I will get back to my Monday Mill Blogging soon (maybe even tomorrow), and will also get back to posting at The Mod Squad. This entry was posted on Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 at 5:36 pm and is filed under Uncategorized. Feed You can leave a response.
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Lewis Powell's Philosophy Blog. Monday Mill Blogging (#009). January 30, 2012. I’ve missed a couple of Mondays, but today: Monday Mill Blogging is back. Today’s post is the second that will cover book 1, chapter 2, section 5. 5 Connotative and Non-Connotative Names. Let’s just start with a quote:. Mill explains that while it is possible that multiple people jointly authored the Illiad, the presence of the word “the” renders the name individual:. This treatment of incomplete descriptions is especially int...
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Lewis Powell's Philosophy Blog. Lewis Powell is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University at Buffalo. He works principally in early modern philosophy, and contemporary philosophy of language. Most of his blogging is conducted at The Mod Squad. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email. There is Some ...
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