Paul Boghossian
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According to an interesting and thought-provoking article by Natalie Ashton and Robin McKenna, Paul Boghossian in Fear of Knowledge would have presented a "classical", "objectivist" view of epistemic justification, which allegedly... more
This is chapter 6 of my book on Rorty, an attempt to understand and defend to an extent his account of the uses of 'truth'. I'm posting it because I'm revisiting the topic and having reread it recently thought some might find it... more
Traducción al castellano del texto "What is Social Construction?" de Paul Boghossian, disponible en http://paulboghossian.com/docs/Boghossian-Paul-socialconstruction1.pdf
Contemporary accounts of the possession conditions for basic logical concepts rely on either the subject being primitively compelled by transitions that are isomorphic to the introduction and elimination rules for the logical constant or... more
Few would doubt that one often encounters the preposterous in philosophy. Some would claim that preposterousness in philosophy is often a matter of literal nonsensicality, i.e. meaninglessness. Is this plausible or is it itself an... more
In this response to Bloch et al., after thanking them for their careful work exploring what's wrong with modus morons, Haack poses a series of more philosophical questions about the grounds of logic---questions she believes are beyond the... more
[Excerpts from the penultimate draft. Includes the front matter, the first section of the preamble, and chapter 1.] *Self-Reflection for the Opaque Mind* attempts to solve a grave problem about critical self-reflection. The worry is that... more
Paul Boghossian regards constructivism about the explanation of belief as one of the theses espoused by the constructivist picture of knowledge. The strong version of this thesis assumes the cause of belief exclusively social and gives no... more
By virtue of a contextual interpretation of our few Protagorean fragments, this paper argues that he (in opposition to the Platonic ideal of complete reproduction of absolute certainty) tries to teach virtue and the capacity of judgment... more
According to Wright’s Judgement-Dependent account of intention, facts about a subject’s intentions can be taken to be constituted by facts about the subject’s best opinions about them formed under certain optimal conditions. This paper... more
Desde la lectura del segundo Wittgenstein podemos repensar la problemática de los desacuerdos: una perspectiva gramatical que no se centra en los posibles fallos epistémicos por parte de los agentes ni en las conclusiones negativas sobre... more
Paul Boghossian, no seu artigo não-publicado " The normativity of meaning revisited " , reassume um debate com Allan Gibbard e argumenta em favor de duas teses, entre outras: (1) A normatividade do significado não pode ser explicada em... more
La critique universaliste du relativisme s'appuie d'abord sur l'argument de la "contradiction performative", en quoi elle ne fait que s'adresser à ceux qui, déjà, ont rallié le principe de non-contradiction, et donc un certain usage de la... more
McTaggart, in his famous paper, “The Unreality of Time” (1908), argues in favor of the sceptical claim that time is unreal. His main argument is based on detecting a paradox in our ordinary descriptions of time, or events occurring in... more
I reply here to philosopher Paul Boghossian’s purported exposure and refutation of the alleged "unpalatable relativism" of what he understands as the constructivism of contemporary sociology of science as supposedly illustrated by my... more
Content externalism about memory says that the individuation of memory contents depends on relations the subject bears to his past environment. I defend externalism about memory by arguing that neither philosophical nor psychological... more
According to the so-called metaphysical conception of analyticity, analytic truths are true in virtue of meaning (or content) alone and independently of (extralinguistic) facts. Quine and Boghossian have tried to present a conclusive... more
According to Wright’s Judgement-Dependent account of intention, facts about a subject’s intentions are viewed as constituted by the subject’s best opinions, or judgements, about them formed under certain optimal conditions. If such... more
I argue that the accounts of inference recently presented (in this journal) by Paul Boghossian, John Broome, and Crispin Wright are unsatisfactory. I proceed in two steps: First, in Sects. 1 and 2, I argue that we should not accept what... more
IPM's Summer School: Meaning Skepticism In the last session, I introduced Kripke's Wittgenstein's Sceptical Argument. After introducing the sceptical problem and the sceptic's claims, we went on and looked at KW's responses to... more