Ontology
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Saul Kripke argued that since names are rigid designators, their referents are not determined by senses. David Kaplan has argued that the rigid designation of indexical terms entails that they also lack referent-determining senses. Kripke's argument…
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Abstract Although 'modern' mental health care comprises a variety of theoretical approaches and practices, the supposed identification of 'mental illness' can be understood as being made on the basis of a specific conception of subjectivity that is…
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In footnote 56 of his Naming and Necessity, Kripke offers a 'proof' of the essentiality of origin. On its most literal reading the argument is clearly flawed, as was made clear by Nathan Salmon. Salmon attempts to save the literal reading of the…
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In recent years a number of authors sympathetic to referentialist accounts of proper names have argued that utterances containing empty names express 'gappy,' or incomplete, propositions. In this paper I want to take issue with this suggestion. In…
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This article aims studying the course held by Michel Foucault at the Collège de France in 1973-1974. The records of this course were published in 2003 under the name Psychiatric power' . The objective was to compare the different ways in which…
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Millian theories of proper names say that the meaning of a proper name (if any) is its referent (if any). Several objections to Millian theories appeal to the existence of empty names (nonreferring names), such as names from fiction, myth, and false…
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Challenging and rewarding in equal measure, Phenomenology of Perception is Merleau-Ponty's most famous work. Impressive in both scope and imagination, it uses the example of perception to return the body to the forefront of philosophy for the first…
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I begin this paper by discussing and refuting Zalta's argument in the context of a language for propositional modal logic with an actuality connective (section 1). This involves showing that his argument in favor of real world validity, his…
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Why then should we accept essentialism? A remaining reason is Ellis's argument by display: we should buy essentialism because of the benefits it will bring. But are these benefits real? The problem is that the putative benefits of essentialism -…
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