In "Ramseyan Humility," David Lewis argues that we cannot know what the fundamental properties in our world are. His arguments invoke the possibility of permutations and replacements of fundamental properties. Most responses focus on Lewis’s view on the relationship between properties and roles, and on the assumptions about knowledge that he makes. I argue that no matter how the debates about knowledge and about the metaphysics of properties turn out, Lewis’s arguments are unconvincing since they rely on a highly implausible assumption about the expressive power of our language
The philosophy of intentionality asks questions such as: in virtue of what does a sentence, picture...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, especia...
In this paper, I argue that all expressions for abstract objects are meaningless. My argument closel...
In "Ramseyan Humility," David Lewis argues that we cannot know what the fundamental properties in ou...
Ramseyan humility is the thesis that we cannot know which properties realize the roles specified by ...
Nothing seems more obvious than that our words have meaning. When people speak to each other, they e...
David Lewis has argued that we cannot identify the fundamental properties. It is generally accepted ...
This paper discusses various humility theses about individuals and intrinsic properties as discussed...
In ‘Ramseyan Humility’ Lewis presents the Permutation Argument for quidditism. As he presents it the...
Many writers have held that in his later work, David Lewis adopted a theory of predicate meaning suc...
David Lewis is typically interpreted as a class nominalist. One consequence of class nominalism, whi...
David Lewis describes, then attempts to refute, a simple anti-Humean theory of desire he calls ‘Desi...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, especi...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversia...
We argue that Lewis would have rejected recent appeals to the notions of ‘metaphysical dependency’, ...
The philosophy of intentionality asks questions such as: in virtue of what does a sentence, picture...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, especia...
In this paper, I argue that all expressions for abstract objects are meaningless. My argument closel...
In "Ramseyan Humility," David Lewis argues that we cannot know what the fundamental properties in ou...
Ramseyan humility is the thesis that we cannot know which properties realize the roles specified by ...
Nothing seems more obvious than that our words have meaning. When people speak to each other, they e...
David Lewis has argued that we cannot identify the fundamental properties. It is generally accepted ...
This paper discusses various humility theses about individuals and intrinsic properties as discussed...
In ‘Ramseyan Humility’ Lewis presents the Permutation Argument for quidditism. As he presents it the...
Many writers have held that in his later work, David Lewis adopted a theory of predicate meaning suc...
David Lewis is typically interpreted as a class nominalist. One consequence of class nominalism, whi...
David Lewis describes, then attempts to refute, a simple anti-Humean theory of desire he calls ‘Desi...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, especi...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversia...
We argue that Lewis would have rejected recent appeals to the notions of ‘metaphysical dependency’, ...
The philosophy of intentionality asks questions such as: in virtue of what does a sentence, picture...
The interpretation of Lewis‘s doctrine of natural properties is difficult and controversial, especia...
In this paper, I argue that all expressions for abstract objects are meaningless. My argument closel...