VOLUME 4(1) • 2005
INTENSIONAL IDENTITIES
ABSTRACT. Slater shows that Edelberg's problems result from using an inadequate theory of descriptions: an alternative theory of descriptions facilitates a better expression for Intentional Identity in the contexts Edelberg is concerned with. As this theory of descriptions needs more articulation th..
INTELEGERE SI TEORII ALE INTELESULUI
ABSTRACT. The issues Sainsbury wishes to discuss lie within the hypothesis that a theory2 of meaning (that relates to language in general) should essentially involve consideration of theories1 of meaning (that relate to a single language, L); a philosophical account of meaning should proceed by cons..
THE FUTURE OF HUMAN EVOLUTION
ABSTRACT. Evolutionary development is sometimes thought of as exhibiting an inexorable trend towards higher, more complex, and normatively worthwhile forms of life. This paper explores some dystopian scenarios where freewheeling evolutionary developments, while continuing to produce complex and inte..
ADEVAR NECESAR A POSTERIORI
ABSTRACT. Swinburne distinguishes between sentences, statements, and propositions, and notes that there are other possible understandings of 'what is said' by a token sentence, additional to those of the proposition and the statement. If 'what is said' is necessary, and you can know what it is, then..
IN WILLIAM PALEY'S SHADOW: DARWIN'S EXPLANATION OF DESIGN
ABSTRACT. If Darwin's explanation of the adaptive organization of living beings is correct, evolution necessarily follows as a consequence of organisms becoming adapted to different environments in different localities and to the ever changing conditions of any given environment, and as hereditary v..
INTENTIONALITY, SKEPTICISM, AND OBJECT-DEPENDENT THOUGHT
ABSTRACT. No theory of intentionality can forestall skeptical doubts. The skeptic appeals to the claim that, for all a subject can tell, there is nothing that marks off a veridical experience from a falsidical one. We cannot hope for a view that rules such doubts out of court from the start. We shou..