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Distinctive substantial self-knowledge and the possibility of self-improvement
Quassim Cassam distinguishes between trivial and substantial cases of self-knowledge. At first sight, trivial cases are epistemically distinctive...
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Inferential Quantification and the ω-Rule
Logical inferentialism maintains that the formal rules of inference fix the meanings of the logical terms. The categoricity problem points out to the...
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Should physical symmetries guide metaphysics? Two reasons why they should maybe not
Symmetry-based inferences have permeated many discussions in philosophy of physics and metaphysics of science. It is claimed that symmetries in our...
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Inferentialist Truth Pluralism
Metasemantic inferentialism has gained popularity in the last few decades. Traditionally, inferentialism is combined with a deflationary attitude...
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Scientific Realism and Mathematical Realism
It is a fallacious inference that since puzzling sentences result from the attribution of spatial and temporal predicates to mathematical objects,...
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Action, Meaning, and Argument in Eric Weil's Logic of Philosophy A Development of Pragmatist, Expressivist, and Inferentialist Themes
This volume investigates Eric Weil’s innovative conceptualization of the place of violence in the philosophical tradition with a focus on violence’s...
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Introducing Identity
The best-known syntactic account of the logical constants is inferentialism . Following Wittgenstein’s thought that meaning is use, inferentialists...
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Alienation or regress: on the non-inferential character of agential knowledge
A central debate in philosophy of action concerns whether agential knowledge, the knowledge agents characteristically have of their own actions, is...
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Making Sense of We-Awareness: Experiences, Affordances, and Practices
My goal in this paper is to support the view that a certain way of being and acting together with others, we-part engagement in paradigmatically...
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Thomasson’s defence of easy arguments
According to Amie Thomasson, most of the existence questions that concern ontologists can be easily answered using trivial arguments from...
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Wherein is Reasoning Social?
One of the main tenets of inferentialism is that reasoning is primarily a competence to play the social game of giving and asking for reasons. A...
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Normativity of meaning: An inferentialist argument
This paper presents a new argument to defend the normativity of meaning, specifically the thesis that there are no meanings without norms. The...
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Williamson’s Abductive Case for the Material Conditional Account
In Suppose and Tell , Williamson makes a new and original attempt to defend the material conditional account of indicative conditionals. His...
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Scientific representation and science identity: the case of chemistry
I put forward an inferentialist account of Lewis structures (LSs). In this view, the role of LSs is not to realistically depict molecules, but...
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Introduction
The Logic of Philosophy is a curious book, both in its composition and its reception. The author, Eric Weil, does his reader few favors. It’s...
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Epistemic characterizations of validity and level-bridging principles
How should we understand validity? A standard way to characterize validity is in terms of the preservation of truth (or truth in a model). But there...
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Groups, Norms and Practices Essays on Inferentialism and Collective Intentionality
This edited volume examines the relationship between collective intentionality and inferential theories of meaning. The book consists of three main...
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Pragmatism and Metaphysics: The General Background
In this introductory chapter, I set out the background against which the theses and arguments of the rest of this book must be understood. I explain...
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Beyond ‘All or Some’: Reframing the Debate Between Local and Global Expressivists
Local expressivism is the idea that some kinds of sentences express mental states other than beliefs. Global expressivism is the idea that all...