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Purpose of the List ![]()
Resources
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)
AN EMPIRICIST THEORY OF KNOWLEDGE by BRUCE AUNE
- PREFACE
- WHAT IS KNOWLEDGE?
- THE CLAIMS OF RATIONALISM
- EMPIRICISM AND THE A PRIORI
- PROPERTIES AND CONCEPTS
- OBSERVATIONAL KNOWLEDGE
- MEMORY AND A POSTERIORI INFERENCE
- APPENDICES
Flew's Criticism of Rawls ( Libertarian Alliance )
Ron Barnette's (1978) "Grounding the Mental" ( Philosophy and Phenomenological Research) The Philosophy of Logical Atomism by Bertrand Russell (The Monist 1918-1919)
Facts and Propositions Particulars, Predicates, and Relations Atomic and Molecular Propositons Propositions, Facts and Belief etc General Propositions and Existence Types and Classes Excursus into Metaphysics Excursus into Metaphysics Introduction to Russell's Principia Mathematica
- Russell's Principia Mathematica: Introduction: Chapter 1
- Russell's Principia Mathematica: Introduction: Chapter 2
- Russell's Principia Mathematica: Introduction: Chapter 3
Meinong's Theory of Objects
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)
Weinberg on 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 (PDF)
"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
Julien 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
Aune's "Speaking of Selves"
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"
BRUCE AUNE, "Does Knowledge Have an Indubitable Foundation?"
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
Aune's "Speaking of Selves"
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
Types and Tokens: A Response to Wetzel
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
A Note on Robert Audi on Hope and Intention
Blackboard (1)
Blackboard (2)
Thinking in Words: On Sellar's and Wittgenstein