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Further Thoughts on Conceptualism vs. Empiricism as a Paradigm for Knowledge
Explaining Conceptualism - Contra Kant
The Case for Conceptualism
The Role of Sentiment in Moral Judgment
Knowledge and Truth: Between Russell and Wittgenstein
About Belief
Intelligence and Minds
Pragmatism in a Modern Register
Value, Truth and Fact
Language and Thought: Separate but Equal?
Conceiving Concepts
Logic, Language and Life
On the Question of the Timelessness of Moral Judgment
Moral Judgment and Relativism -- A Rejection of "Wokeism"
Why Philosophy ain't Psychology . . . and Vice Versa
Separating the Rational from the Rationalized
Valuing and the World
The Phenomenology of Morals
Moral Ideas and Religious Belief
The Problem of Moral Explanation: Do Philosophers Have Anything to Add?
Representation, Presentation and Just Making Stuff Up
Wittgenstein Does Ethics
Knowledge and Discourse
Can Value Be "Transcendental"?
Wittgenstein's Later Ethics: A Reply to Duncan Richter
Too Much Philosophy?
Heidegger's Place?
Waiting for Wednesday - Values and Facts: The "Truth" Connection
More On Chomsky and Language: Its Nature and Acquisition
Chomsky on Language: Its Use, Acquisition and Value
Truth and Trump
Faith, Metaphysics and Belief (Second Draft)
Assorted Thoughts on the Implications of the Is/Ought Dichotomy for Moral Judgment
Second Part: Value and Representation (1st shot at it)
Value and Representation -- Third Draft
Value and Representation (1st Draft)
Morality is Merely What We Feel
Anscombe's "Intention"
Is Goodness Intrinsic? How Wittgenstein Saw It
Morals and Metaphysics
Right and wrong in the light of modern approaches to morality; has the Christian perspective anything to offer?
Dewey Does Ethics
The Purpose of Moral Philosophy?
Response to Strawson on the Impossibility of Moral Responsibility
Truth, Belief and Moral Reasons
Value, Self-Interest and Moral Reasoning
Logic, Value and Our Moral Claims
The Problem with Properties
A Jamesian Wittgenstein?
Moral Judgment, Factual Belief and Wittgenstein's "On Certainty"
Logic and Value
Moral Judgment in the Real World
Walter Horn on Utilitarianism
Why Goodness is not a Property
Being Evil
What About Ayn Rand?
Why Moral Judgments Aren't True or False and Why They Don't Have to Be
Death and Dying
Blackburn's Expressivism -- Extending the Humean Tradition
The Science and Philosophy of Brains
The Mechanism of Moral Belief (Part III Making Moral Arguments)
The Mechanism of Moral Belief - Part II (Agency and Cognition)
The Mechanism of Moral Belief - Part I (Valuing)
Moral Realism as a Naturalistic Intuitionism
Rejecting Morality
Help Sean Wilson's New Book Project
Ethical Intuitionism and the Idea of Intrinsic Goodness
A New Resource for Students of Philosophy?
Can Moral Goodness Be Based on Naturalism?
Are There Intrinsic Goods?
A Moral Conversation
Recapitulating the Moral Account
Philosophy and Practicality
Brandom on Analytic Philosophy and Wittgenstein
Logic and Moral Discourse (revised)
Searle's "Solution" to the Ethics Quandary
Four Naturalistic Strategies in Accounting for Ethical Claims
Brandom's Ethical Strategy
The Logic of Action
Final Installment of Wittgenstein Lectures
Wittgenstein On Philosophy
The Moral and the Mental
Searle on the Is/Ought Dichotomy
Ethics in Wittgenstein: Early and Late
MORAL REASONING: A "Wittgensteinian" Approach
Realizational Ethics
An Evolutionary Biological Theory of Morality
An Inventory of Value Approaches re: Moral Questions
Wittgenstein's Error
Hall, Wittgenstein and Dennett
Was Wittgenstein Wrong on Ethics?
Wittgenstein on Heidegger and Ethics
Toward a Comprehensive Account of Value Discourse
Acts, Intentions and Agents
Wittgenstein and Giving Up Wealth
How the Tractatus Crumbled: The Piero Sraffa Gesture
Replacing Sense/Reference with Sense/Family 1
On Intention
So What Is "Representationalism" Anyway?
Hall, Dennett and the Problems of Reference and Intentionality
The Case for a "Sentimentalist" Account of Moral Claims
How to Derive "Ought" from "Is"
Quine on Ethics
Quine, Dennett and Wittgenstein
Pictures, Propositions and the World (Tractatus Studies)
Wittgenstein and Philosophy of Scholarship
Anscombe's Antidote
Obligation and Goodness
Wittgenstein, God & Jesus
Metaphysics, Idealism and Moral Goodness
Anscombe Comments on Identity
Minds, Brains, Souls/Anscombe on Wittgenstein and the Mental
For Your Enjoyment ...
Russell, the Analytics & Early Wittgenstein
Citing Sources and Quoting Quotes
On The Club's Meaning of "Analytic Philosophy"
Missouri, Originalism & Stupidity
Empathy and Reasons
Defeating the Dennett Defense of Materialism
Two Lectures on Wittgenstein (Nuno Venturinha)
Of Beauty and Beautiful Things
The Moral Way
Linguistic Aspects of Claims about Experiencing
Intentions and Selves (3rd Re-Write)
Consciousness Without Inner Models ...
Act and Intent
"Language Game" as a Philosophical Term
The Rise and Fall of Zombie Philosophy
Empathy
The Value of Persons
Motives Matter
The Curiosity of Moral Claims
Value and Moral Choice
Subjects and Objects
Teaching Mathematics Differently?
Wittgenstein Wins Contest
OLP on BBC
A Matter of Ethics
Love, Brain Chemicals & Free Will
On Facts and Intelligence
Language Idling
Oral Traditions, Gospels & Accuracy
A Horse of a Different Color
On Jesus and Philosophy of Love
Can Machines Get It?
On The Club's Meaning of "Analytic Philosophy"
Wittgenstein's On Certainty Reconsidered
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