Archive for the ‘insemnari’ Category
Responsibility – two cases
Friday, June 13th, 2014
Three Drawings
Thursday, May 29th, 2014I’ve done the first one in an attempt to clarify my view of philosophy as a conceptual proposal:
The second expresses my thoughts about the dual nature of actions:
In the third case I was trying to think of the different ways in which we understand the idea if necessity:
They are related.
Force Fictionalism – Morals from Speech Act Theory
Tuesday, April 8th, 2014I gave a talk on this topic at Fictionalism. The Bucharest-Budapest Workshop in Philosophy, a few days ago. My slides are here. A first draft of my paper is here. Some of the notes I have made while working can be read here (although they will not make much sense by themselves).
A passing remark about belief attribution
Tuesday, April 1st, 2014Let us start with the following simple scheme of belief attribution:
Agent G does action A.
Belief B is a reason for doing A.
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Therefore, A believes B.
To take an example, suppose George eats a sandwich. A reason for doing so would be provided by the belief that sandwiches are nutritious, so we could attribute that belief to George.
Artifacts (notes and drawings)
Monday, January 6th, 2014Just some scribbles, nothing here is publishable.
Natural and Nonnatural Meaning
Friday, November 8th, 2013One might say that in the beginning of Meaning, Grice tries to distinguish between two different vocabularies – the naturalistic and the non-naturalistic one, given the fact that “to mean” figures in both of them. Also, in doing so, he attempts to use a neutral vocabulary, apparently.
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Crestinism si discriminare
Wednesday, July 3rd, 2013Sa ne inchipuim ca anumiti oameni nu ar putea sa isi lase averea familiei. Dupa moartea lor, toate bunurile pe care le detineau trec in proprietatea statului. Familia nu ramane cu nimic.
Sa ne inchipuim, in plus, ca lucrurile ar sta asa doar in cazul crestinilor. Oamenii care ar declara ca nu sunt crestini nu ar avea astfel de probleme. Intr-o astfel de situatie, ar fi limpede ca crestinii sunt discriminati.