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Resources
HIST-ANALYTIC ARCHIVE
Analysis Situs by Oswald Veblen Aristotle's Syllogistic (1955) by Jan Lukasiewicz
- Elements of the System; Theses of the System
- The System; Aristotle's System in Symbolic Form
- The Problem of Decision; Aristotle's Modal Logic of Propositions
- The System of Modal Logic; Aristotle's Modal Syllogistic
The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge (1940) by A. J. Ayer
- The Argument from Illusion
- The Characterization of Sense Data
- The Egocentric Predicament; Causality and Perception
- The Constitution of Matter
Intentions, Entrainment and Pseudo-Processes by Steven R. Bayne
Hume's Theory of the External World (194) by H. H. Price
- Introduction and Constancy and Coherence
- The Effects of Constancy and Coherence
- The Existence of Unsensed Sensibilia
- The As-If Theory
- The Expressive Theory; Conclusion, and Index
LAWS AND EXPLANATION IN HISTORY (1957) by William Dray
- The Covering Law Model
- The Doctrine of Implicit Definition
- Explaining and Predicting
- Causal Laws and Causal Analysis
- The Rationale of Action
- Explaining Why and Explaining How
SPACE AND GEOMETRY (1901: Monist) by Ernst Mach
- On Physiological, as Distinguished from Geometrical Space
- On the Psychological and Natural Development of Geometry
- Space and Geometry from the Point of View of Physical Inquiry
"Independent Postulates for the "Informal" Part of Principia Mathematica" by E. V. Huntington (Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 1934)
Pedro Amaral's Introduction to Sellars' Notre Dame Lectures
Letter to the Editor of Journal of Philosophy: Bertrand Russell (1915)
"On the Importance of Logical Form?" Bertrand Russell (1938)
Eddington's 'Two Tables' (1938) - Sir Arthur Eddington
"Does Moral Philosophy Rest on a Mistake?" by H. A. Pritchard
"The Analytic and the Synthetic" by Morton White
"The Naturalistic Fallacy" by Morton White
"Quantum Physics and the Philosophy of Whitehead" by Abner Shimony
"On Denoting" by Bertrand Russell (1905)
"Mental Causation: Davidson, Kvart, and Logical "Bling-blings" by Steven R. Bayne
"Truth and Probability" by F. P. Ramsey
LEAVES OF LIFE by J. A. Wayland (1912)
"The Myth of Passage" by D. C. Williams
EXPERIENCE AND PREDICTION by Hans Reichenbach (1938)
- Meaning
- Impressions and the External World
- An Inquiry Concerning Impressions
- The Projective Construction of the World on the Concreta Basis
- Probability and Induction
Some Works by Bruce Aune
"Conceptual Relativism" by Bruce Aune
AN EMPIRICIST THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE by BRUCE AUNE
BOUND EDITION AVAILABLE
- PREFACE
- WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?
- THE CLAIMS OF RATIONALISM
- EMPIRICISM AND THE A PRIORI
- PROPERTIES AND CONCEPT
- OBSERVATIONAL KNOWLEDGE
- MEMORY AND A POSTERIORI INFERENCE
- APPENDICES
- References
"Action and Ontology" by Bruce Aune (1988)
Bruce Aune on "The Formal Logic of Practical Reasoning"
"Conceptual Realism" by Bruce Aune
Aune's "Speaking of Selves"
BRUCE AUNE, "Does Knowledge Have an Indubitable Foundation?"
BRUCE AUNE, "Does Knowledge Have an Indubitable Foundation?"
Aune's "Speaking of Selves"
Types and Tokens: A Response to Wetzel
W. E. Johnson "On Determinables
Nagel on "What is an Inconsistent Triad?"
Reichenbach's Table of Logical Equivalences in Propositional Calculus
R. M. Martin on the "Philosophical Import of Virtual Classes
Mind Time: The Temporal Factor in Consciousness by Benjamin Libet Reviewed by Steven R. Bayne The Theory of Probability by Hans Reichenbach [1949]
- Sections 9-14
The Probability Implication
The Abbreviated Notation
The Rule of Existence
The Axioms of Univocality and of Normalization
The Theorem of Addition
The Theorem of Multiplication
- Sections 15-20
Reduction of the Multiplication
Theorem to a Weaker Axiom
The Frequency Interpretion
The Origin of Probability Statements
Derivation of the Axioms from the Frequency Interpretation
The Rule of Elimination
The General Theorem of Addition
- Sections 21-23
The Rule of the Product
The Rule of Reduction
The Relation of Independence
- Section 24
Complete Probability Systems
- Section 25
The Mathematical Formalization of the Probability Calculus
Hempel and Oppenheim: "The Logic of Explanation" (1948) Philosophy of Science )
H. L. Hart: "Legal Responsibility and Excuses" ([1957] 1961)
C. I. Lewis and C. H. Langford: "The Structure of Strict Implication (circa 1927)
C. I. Lewis and C. H. Langford: "The Use of Dots as Brackets" (1932) (
AN ANALYSIS OF RESEMBLANCE by Ralph W. Church
- Chpt. 1: Some Preliminary Observations
- Chpt. 2: The Dialectic of Contraries and Exact Resemblance
- Chpt. 3:Identity in Difference and Exact Resemblance
Chpt. 4: The Internality of Relations and Exact Resemblance
- Chpt. 5: Russell's Puzzle
- Chpt. 6: Our Knowledge of Resemblance
- Chpt. 7: On Two Basic Senses of Resemblance
- Chpt. 8: Two Basic Senses of Resemblance
- Chpt. 9: The Same Name Argument
- Chpt. 10: Resemblance, Universals and Concepts
"On the Sources of Knowledge and Ignorance" by Karl Popper (British Academy Lecture: 1960)
Flew's Atttack on Rawls ( Libertarian Alliance )
Ron Barnette's (1978) "Grounding the Mental" ( Philosophy and Phenomenological Research) The Philosophy of Logical Atomism by Bertrand Russell [1918]
- Facts and Propositions
- Particulars, Predicates, and Relations
- Atomic and Molecular Propositions
- Propositions, Facts and Belief etc
- General Propositions and Existence
- Classes and Types
- Classes and Types
- Classes and Types
- Excursus into Metaphysics
Meinong's Theory of Objects Introduction to Russell's Principles of Mathematics
- Russell's Principia Mathematica: Introduction: Chapter 1
- Russell's Principia Mathematica: Introduction: Chapter 2
- Russell's Principia Mathematica: Introduction: Chapter 3
G. E. Moore's "A Defense of Common Sense (1925)
G. E. Moore's "Proof of an External World" (1939: Proc. British Academy
"The Central Error of the Tractatus" by Hartley Slater from Wittgenstein Jahrbuch (2006-2007)
"Acting, Willing, Desiring" by H. A. Prichard
"Explanation, Mechanism, and Teleology" by C. J. Ducasse (1926)
"On the Notion of a Cause" by Bertrand Russell
"Rudolf Carnap's 'Theoretical Concepts in Science" by Stathis Psillos (2000)
Ramsey's "Theories" (1929)
Schlick on Psychological and Physical Concepts
Weinberg on the "Elimination of Metaphysics (1936)
Weinberg on "Linguistic Solipsism" (1936)
Wittgenstein's Theory of Meaning
Ushenko on Consistency
Ushenko on the Paradoxes
From Bertrand Russell's Principles of Mathematics(1903)
G. E. Moore: "On Propositions" Some Main Problems of Philosophy (circa 1914)
Bradley on "The General Nature of Judgement" (Logic 1883)
G. F. Stout on "Mr. Bradley's Theory of Judgment (Proc. Arist. Society 1908-09)
Volker Peckhaus, Texte zum Download: Excellent German Resources
Carnap: Selections from The Logical Syntax of Language (1937)
- Topics in Logic
- 38: The Elimination of Classes
- 38a: On Existence Assumptions in Logic
- 60a: The Antinomies
- 60b: The Concepts of 'True' and 'False'
- 60c: The Syntactical Antiomies
- 60d: Every Arithmetic is Defective
- 61: Translation from One Language to Another
- 67: The Thesis of Extentionality
- 68: Intensional Sentences
- 69: Intensional Sentences of the Logic of Modality
- 70: Quasi-Syntactical Methods etc.
- 71: Is an Intensional Logic Necessary
Philosophy and Syntax 72: Philosophy Replaced by the Logic of Science 73: The Logic of Science 74: Pseudo-Object Sentences 75: Sentences and Meaning 76: The Universal Words Philosophy and Syntax (cont) 77: Universal Words in the Material Mode of Speech 78: Confusion in Philosophy Caused by the Material Mode of Speech 79: Philosophical Sentences in the Material Mode of Speech 80: Dangers of the Material Mode of Speech Philosophy and Syntax (cont) 81: The Admissability of the Material Mode 82:The Physical Language 83:The So-Called Foundations of the Sciences 84:The Problem of the Foundations of Mathematics 85:Syntactical Sentences and the Special Sciences 86: The Logic of Science is Syntax
Bibliography
From Sydney Shoemaker'sSelf-Knowledge and Self Identity (1963)
From C. D. Broad'sThe Mind and Its Place in Nature (1925)
Moore's Ethics (1912)
The Aristotelian Society
- Editor's Introduction to Selections from Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society
- "The Causal Theory of Perception" by H. P. Grice
- "Are the Characteristics of Things Universal or Particular" by G. E. Moore
- "Facts and Proposition" (Symposium) by G. E. Moore and F. P. Ramsey
- "Phenomenalism" by G. F. Stout
- Nunn, T. P. "Are Secondary Qualities Independent of Perception?" PAS V. x. 1909-10.
- "The Nature and Reality of the Objects of Perception" by G. E. Moore (PAS 1905-06)
- "Some Judgments of Perception" by G. E. Moore (PAS 1918)
- "Knowledge by Acquaintance and Knowledge by Description" by Bertrand Russell (PAS 1910-1911)
- "On the Relation of Universals and Particulars" by Bertrand Russell (PAS 1912)
R. B. Perry's "A Realistic Theory of Mind" etc.
"Wittgenstein's Philosophical Investigations" by Paul Feyerabend
Carnap's "Testability and Meaning"
"Ontological Alternatives" by Gustav Bergmann
"Outline of a Decision Procedure for Ethics" by John Rawls
"A Tentative Realistic Metaphysics" by Evander McGilvary
"Hume's Doctrine of Space" by C. D. Broad
Grice and Strawson: "In Defense of a Dogma"
Edward Caird: "Rational Cosmology" (1889)
G. F. Stout: "Voluntary Decision" (1924)
C. D. Broad: "Berkeley's Argument About Material Substance" (1942)
Latta's Translation AND Commentary on the Monadology (1898)
Meinong's HUME STUDIES (Barber translation)
Corrected First Page of Hume-Studies by Meinong
Julian Schwinger on Philosophy of Science
Ascriptivism by Peter Geach
University of Delaware Seminar (1961-63) and PHOTO Gallery
Moore's Margin Notes on Reid
The Static Versus the Dynamic Temporal By Richard Gale
Grice's "Meaning"
Ryle's "Ordinary Language"
Index to Anscombe's Intention
ADOLF GRUNBAUM
JOHN RAWLS: "Two Concepts of Rules" Philosophical Review 1955)
JOHN RAWLS: "Justice as Fairness" (Philosophical Review 1958)
G. F. STOUT's "The Nature of Universals and Propositions"
Note by TOULMIN on Hume and a Conjecture on Pinsent
RICHARD GALE's "The Static Versus the Dynamic Temporal"
RAMSEY's "Universals" (MIND 1925)
LANDINI on Russell's Multiple-Relation Theory of Judgment
F. P. RAMSEY'S "The Foundations of Mathematics"
DONALD CARY WILLIAMS and his "The Elements of Being."
EVERETT HALL
T.L.S SPRIGGE
GUSTAV BERGMANN
HERBERT HOCHBERG
SAMUEL ALEXANDER
E. V. HUNTINGTON on Serial Order
HAYEK ON WITTGENSTEIN (review) ![]()
Art by Mary E. Martin
Formal Ontology (BARRY SMITH)
Broad and Epiphenomenalism (brief note)
Emotion and Will: Anscombe on Brentano
HELP For Czech Philosophers
Carnap on the Lambda Operator
Davidson, Akrasia, and Moore's Paradox (Revised)
Nominalization and Event Causation: Vendler vs. Chisholm
Russell and Broad on Space
Chomsky and Russell on Nominalization
Excellent Philosophy Links
Pure Intention: Davidson's Debt to Anscombe
EJAP (Electronic Journal of Philosophy)
Church's Modal Paradox
Russell-Space and the Elusive Self
Wittgenstein, Series, and Thinking in Words
Anscombe and the Classical Theory of the Will
Formal Ontology (Barry Smith) Online Texts
Santayana on Frank Russell
Rafe Champion's Philosophy Page
Drury on Wittgenstein
Luciano Floridi's List of Top 100 Works of Analytic Philosophy
Thumbnail Descriptions of Famous Papers in Philosophy
- Rorty (1965)
- Strawson on Persons (1959)
- Quine's Designation and Existence
- Morton White on Analyticity
Women in Philosophy
Austin Bibliography
Nelson Goodman Bibliography
Classics in Psychology Online
David Stove Online
Note on Semantic Satiation
Anscombe vs. J. L. Austin: Was There a Victor?
Muhammad Iqbal
Toulmin, Explanation, and History
A Note on Covering Concepts, Relative Identity and Comparatives"
Strawson and the "Space" of Sounds
Unrevised Remarks on Russell and Meinong on "Assumption"
Schematic Comparison of Early Russell and Meinong on Reference Good Analytic Links
Remarks on "The Mind's Best Trick: how we experience conscious will," by Daniel Wegner"
Kripke's Cartesian Argument
Broad's Causal Theory of Perception - A Review
Letter to Unnamed Philosopher on Putnam's Brain in a Vat
Anscombe's Critique of Chisholm's Theory of Agency
Introducing Joseph McCabe and Rationalism: A Rebel to His Last Breath by Bill Cooke (Prometheus: 2001)
Joseph McCabe's Eighty Years a Rebel
Blackboard (1)
Blackboard (2)
Blackboard (3): Erhing Preemption
Blackboard (4): Entrainment and Gear Representation
A Note on Robert Audi on Hope and Intention