VOLUME 4(2) • 2005
LOGICAL FORM AND LANGUAGE
ABSTRACT. Frege's conception of the universal applicability of modern mathematical logic and its singular role in displaying the structure of genuinely objective judgment were the primary concerns of much of twentieth-century philosophy. Quine discredits a certain group of non-extensional notions, w..
THE ART OF PLATO AND SOCRATES' MISSION
ABSTRACT. Plato's dialogues provide us with two cases in which citizens become recruited as instruments of the state in carrying out unjust legal judgments made by the state. The claim that Socrates would violate a legally valid law proscribing philosophizing must provide an explanation of how such ..
MEANING, TRUTH, AND ONTOLOGY
ABSTRACT. Davidson thinks of meaning as determined by what individual speakers do with their words in communication. Davidson takes the idea that a formalization of what a theory of truth is explains something. Quine distinguishes between singular terms and general terms, and speaks of different 'po..
NUME, NUME FICTIVE SI 'REALMENTE'
ABSTRACT. Fictional names pose at least two kinds of problem: how, if at all, do they mean anything? And how, if at all, do they affect the truth or other semantic value of sentences in which they occur? Answering the first question is especially difficult if one holds both of the two opinions (1) t..
INDETERMINAREA CUANTICA SI ARGUMENTUL WITTGENSTEINIAN AL LIMBAJULUI PRIVAT
ABSTRACT. The demand for 'criteria of correctness' to identify recurring particulars in Wittgenstein's private language argument favors an idealist interpretation of quantum phenomena. The indeterminacy principle in quantum physics and the logic of the private language argument share a common concer..
FILOSOFIA RELIGIEI (EXISTENTA SI NATURA LUI DUMNEZEU)
ABSTRACT. The philosophy of religion, as this is understood in the modern empiricist Anglo-American tradition of philosophy, is an examination of the meaning and justification of central religious claims. Most religions make claims about the cause of the existence of things, about the most fundament..
DESIRE, TIME, AND ETHICAL WEIGHT
ABSTRACT. We want more than we can have. So we must somehow weigh our desires in order to determine which of them it is most important that we satisfy. All that an egoist of the present moment has to do is to introspectively ascertain these parameters, calculate (or intuitively estimate) the expecte..
SOME QUESTIONS OF ONTOLOGY
ABSTRACT. 'Individual' Laycock uses as a convenient term for any putative distinct object of reference, whether concrete or abstract, whether particular or universal. Generally, being concrete is closely related to being extended and, specifically, to solidity. Particulars Laycock takes to be standa..