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A representationalist reading of Kantian intuitions
There are passages in Kant’s writings according to which empirical intuitions have to be (a) singular, (b) object-dependent, and (c) immediate. It...
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The Phenomenological Foundations of Mathematics: Introducing a Phenomenological Intuitionism
The aim of this chapter is to establish a phenomenological mathematical intuitionism that is based on fundamental phenomenological-epistemological...
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Do Mathematicians Agree about Mathematical Beauty?
Mathematicians often conduct aesthetic judgements to evaluate mathematical objects such as equations or proofs. But is there a consensus about which...
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Précis of Philosophy, Literature and Understanding: On Reading and Cognition
This précis gives an overview of my book Philosophy, Literature, and Understanding: On Reading and Cognition which is the subject of a book symposium...
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Mental causation, interventionism, and probabilistic supervenience
Mental causation is notoriously threatened by the causal exclusion argument. A prominent strategy to save mental causation from causal exclusion...
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Empirical Conceptual Analysis: An Exposition
Conceptual analysis as traditionally understood can be improved by allowing the use of a certain kind of empirical investigation. The conceptual...
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Quine’s conflicts with truth deflationism
Compared to the extensive amount of literature on various themes of W.V.O. Quine’s philosophy, his immanent concept of truth remains a relatively...
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A Cultural Species and its Cognitive Phenotypes: Implications for Philosophy
After introducing the new field of cultural evolution, we review a growing body of empirical evidence suggesting that culture shapes what people...
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Normative Reference as a Normative Question
Normative naturalism holds that normative properties are identical with, or reducible to, natural properties. Various challenges to naturalism focus...
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Searching for the Anthropological Foundations of Economic Practice: Controversies and Opportunities
This chapter is a comment on the contribution of Rebecca Klein in this volume, preceded by a conceptual analysis of the argument that is developed in...
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Reasoning and commitment
I argue for a commitment-discharging condition of reasoning, according to which to engage in reasoning is to discharge the theoretical and practical...
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Can thought experiments solve problems of personal identity?
Good physical experiments conform to the basic methodological standards of experimental design: they are objective, reliable, and valid. But is this...
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Lakatosian and Euclidean populations: a pluralist approach to conceptual change in mathematics
Lakatos’ (Lakatos,
1976 ) model of mathematical conceptual change has been criticized for neglecting the diversity of dynamics exhibited by...
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Epistemic Blame and the New Evil Demon Problem
The New Evil Demon Problem presents a serious challenge to externalist theories of epistemic justification. In recent years, externalists have...
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Husserl’s Phenomenological Intuitionism
In the previous chapter, we discussed the systematic role and epistemic status of a priori intuitions. For Husserl, a priori intuitions are a source...
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Overcoming the modal/amodal dichotomy of concepts
The debate about the nature of the representational format of concepts seems to have reached an impasse. The debate faces two fundamental problems....
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Digital Imagination: Ihde’s and Stiegler’s Concepts of Imagination
As AI algorithms advance and produce surprising outputs, the question of imagination arises. Can we classify their output as imaginative? And what is...
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Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and the Epistemology of Logic
This chapter discusses Wittgenstein’s early account of the epistemology of logic in relation to Frege, Russell, and Carnap. It explains how...
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Cross-Cultural Convergence of Knowledge Attribution in East Asia and the US
In this paper, we provide new findings that add to the growing body of empirical evidence that important epistemic intuitions converge across...
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Horwich’s Epistemological Fundamentality and Folk Commitment
There are many variants of deflationism about truth, but one of them, Paul Horwich’s minimalism, stands out because it accepts as axiomatic practical...
