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The Mind Does Not Make Jumps
Bertrand Russell's notion of acquaintance—still influential in contemporary philosophy of mind and epistemology—promises an immediate and epistemically secure awareness of things, independent of conceptualization, predication, and other forms of cognitive activity. This paper reconstructs and assesses the largely neg...
Jacopo Pallagrosi
· European Journal of Philosop... · 0 citations
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Revenge Russell‐Myhill and the Ramified Hierarchy
The Russell‐Myhill paradox targeting the structuralist view of proposition in classical higher‐order logic is blocked by implementing restrictions associated with an ordinary account of predicativity. However, it has been shown that these restrictions are not safe: “revenge” versions of the paradox show the inconsist...
Jacopo Berneri
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Bertrand Russell’s Logicism versus Immanuel Kant’s Antinomies of Reason
The article argues that the logicism through which Russell approached Kant’s antinomies possessed a distinct character, determined by: a) discovery of paradoxes, and b) theory of types as finding ways to solve them. The paper demonstrates both the strengths and weaknesses of Russell’s logicism regarding his approach to...
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Strawson and Russell on Referring and Denoting
This paper offers a comprehensive and critical examination of Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions as articulated in On Denoting (1905) and P. F. Strawson's response in On Referring (1950). Russell's logical analysis aims to resolve puzzles of non-referring expressions by treating definite descriptions as quantifi...
Rajendra Kumar Verma, Priya Rawat
· The Social ION · 0 citations
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Richard Brinkley on the Limits of the Sensitive Power: A First Look at His Epistemology
This paper examines the role of and limits to the sensitive power in the epistemology of Richard Brinkley, drawing on the recent discovery of his complete Lectura super Sententias. Preserved in Florence (BNCF, Conv. Soppr. G.III.367, ff. 47rA–137rA), the commentary substantially expands Brinkley’s available theological...
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Between Thought and Expression
Between Thought and Expression develops a unified conception of the rational mind—along with the philosophical method needed to reveal it—through seven self-contained essays on fundamental questions in diverse areas of philosophy. Variants of Moore’s Paradox—conjunctions of independently meaningful statements that so...
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