Aug 2026· Episteme· pp. 1-22· 1 citation· 26 references
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This paper investigates parallels between the Wittgensteinian rule-following problem and the “novelty objection” to intellectualist views of knowledge-how. I focus on two points of symmetry: a common puzzle about how standing knowledge relates to successful action in a potential infinity of novel cases; and a parallel
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affecting that connection. I consider competing ways of understanding these parallels, indicating how they connect with wider philosophical and exegetical commitments, and I defend an interpretation that in fact favours intellectualism.
Abstract In the concluding chapter of Die Philosophie des Als Ob, Vaihinger offers an interpretation of Nietzsche’s epistemology in terms of his own fictionalism. Here, I suggest that Vaihinger’s interpretation is close to being correct, and that we still have much to learn from it. In particular, his reading promises...
The attempt by neo-Aristotelian naturalists such as Philippa Foot and Michael Thompson to ground the objective validity of ethical principles in human nature has met with significant criticism. In particular, critics often reject the concept of life-form central to this view as incompatible with modern scientific biolo...
In Laws x, the Athenian refutes three forms of impiety: atheism, deism, and traditional theism, which holds that the gods can be appeased via sacrifices. This article offers a careful reconstruction of the last refutation (905d8-907b4) as a self-standing, but dialectical, reductio ad absurdum. I then use the argument a...
Franco V. Trivigno· Ancient Philosophy· 0 citations
This text is an introduction to Jarosław Ładosz’s “Socialism Today. Theses”. It outlines Ładosz’s philosophical views, showing how he creatively reconceptualized the pillars of Marxism-Leninism, and examines the relation between his pre- and post-1989 positions. It highlights the marginal yet persistent role of Ładosz...
Fictionalism is claimed to allow its advocates to do mathematics without having to commit thereby to the existence of abstract entities. Nevertheless, fictionalism is subject to a charge that has not received enough attention yet, namely, the nominalistic impurity objection. According to this objection, the fictional...
