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Normative Semantics: What Should Our Words Mean?…

Parts of this post draw from David Chalmers’ paper “Verbal Disputes“* (a lecture on the same topic can be found here.) , I will move from this discussion to my original point. Quotations in this post all refer to this paper. Chalmers draws a distinction between ‘verbal’ and ‘substantive’ philosophical Read more…

By Harland Grant, 6 years6 years ago

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E12: Daniel Dennett’s Easy Problems – Content, Consciousness, and Intuition Pumps

This time the Dawdler’s examine Daniel Dennett’s book “Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking” (2013). Regardless of all that, these two tools think they think. Topics explored are philosophical zombies, Occam’s Razor, black boxes, and sorta operators. Do you smell that? It’s the sweet potpourri of Dennettian thinkadinks. -Dawds Read more…

By thedawdler, 7 years7 years ago