CONTEXT AND USE
JASON BRIDGES 1. Contextualism One of the most striking developments in recent analytic philosophy is the enormous popularity of the approach to meaning and content known as “contextualism”. Contextualist theories are key players in a range of current debates in…
RESPONSIBILITY WITHOUT IDENTITY
DAVID W. SHOEMAKER It is thought to be a platitude that “one can be morally responsible only for one’s own actions.” Call this Platitude. For many philosophers, Platitude entails what I call Slogan: moral responsibility presupposes personal identity.[1] In other…
“WE LIVE BEYOND ANY TALE THAT WE HAPPEN TO ENACT”
GALEN STRAWSON 1. “Narrativity” If one is Narrative, then—here’s my first definition— one experiences or conceives of one’s life, one’s existence, oneself, in a narrative way, and in some manner lives in and through this conception. To be Narrative, as…
A STRAIGHTFORWARD SOLUTION TO BERKELEY’S PUZZLE
JOHN CAMPBELL 1. The Explanatory Role of Experience Berkeley (1734) thought that we cannot but take the existence of a thing to be a matter of its being perceived: “The table I write on, I say, exists, that is, I…
INTEGRITY OVER TIME: KORSGAARD AND THE UNITY CRITERION
MAXIMILIAN DE GAYNESFORD Estates have wings, and hang in Fortune’s pow’r Loose on the point of ev’ry wav’ring Hour; Ready, by force, or of their own accord, By sale, at least by death, to change their Lord. Alexander Pope, Imitation…
WHAT ARE MORAL ABSOLUTES LIKE?
JEREMY WALDRON Lecture presented as the Annual Lecture for the Harvard Philosophy Club Cambridge, Massachusetts, April 2011 1. Dinner at All Souls I sat at dinner at All Souls College, Oxford with a young philosopher a month or…
INTERVIEW WITH HILARY PUTNAM
HRP: Let’s start at the beginning of your career. What was it like working on Hilbert’s Tenth Problem? Putnam: I am, of course, a mathematician as well as a philosopher. And I’m very happy about that [laughs]. I started working…
ON META-EPISTEMOLOGY
DUNCAN PRITCHARD 1. INTRODUCTORY REMARKS My goal here is two-fold. First, I want to accurately describe as best I can the actual methodology employed by analytical epistemologists, at least as I understand that methodology. In my view there has…