09/19/07 -Devitt on Meaning

I am continuing my series of posts on the Meaning course I am auditing co-taught by Devitt and Neale (previous posts here, here, and here). One thing that I, and others, have been pressing Devitt on is his treatment of semantic types. As he has admitted in class, he is primarily concerned with token sentences [...]

Selected Posts

I have decided to have a ‘selected posts’ section on the side bar that has links to some posts that I liked, but that did not get the discussion that they should have…Check ‘em out!

Please Immediately Go and See

this….too freakin’ funny!!! I love how Aristotle won’t let his enimies sin against philosophy by killing him!!! Yeah…but can they rap?  (HT: Florida Student Philosophy Blog)

New Virtual Presentation

I am continuing my experiment of recording my powerpoint presentations and making them available for people to listen to. I have put Language, Thought, Logic, and Existence up in the sidebar. It has some misfires and brainfarts (like, I got the title wrong in the begining, among others), and I may try to re-record it [...]

The Tri-State Cog Blog

I have just become a contributor to The Tri-State Cog Blog, which is a group weblog about cognitive science, intended to foster a community of cognitive science researchers based in the Northeastern USA. We post content on a wide range of issues in all areas of cognitive science. We particularly welcome content pertaining to cognitive [...]

Metaethics and Cognitive Science

There has been some discussion over at Brains about what the ideal cognitive science program would look like which got me to thinking. I am writing my dissertation in metaethics and I have always thought that my project was a cogsci project. I don’t mean merely that my metaethical theory is informed by research in [...]

God, Reason, and Morality

The previous post brings up a question which I have thought about a lot: Can God act immorally? It seems to me that the answer to this question is ‘yes’…and in fact I think we have clear examples of God’s immorality in the Bible (I am thinking in particular about Job). How is this possible? Here [...]

Let’s Make it a Class-Action Lawsuit….

A Senator has recently filed a lawsuit against God…to bad it’s a joke!!! (HT Think Tonk)

53rd Philosophers’ Carnival

Here  See any good classes on Quine?

09/05 Devitt II

So I wanted to finish up talking about Devitt’s view about the methodology of naturalized semantics. Given that the semantic task cannot be solely to investigate our intuitions about meanings, we then need a way to identify what the semantic task is. Devitt’s answer is that we need to begin by asking what the purpose [...]