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	Harvard Gazette: Quine, 92, was major philosopher of 20th century
		According to Charles Parsons, the current Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Quine's best-known contributions to logic are the New Foundations system of set theory (1937) and his writings on basic logic and its philosophy.
		Parsons said that Quine was also a major general philosopher, "developing a naturalistic position with many ramifications - in particular his much-discussed criticisms of the notion of analyticity and of other received notions concerning language and meaning."
		Parsons, who studied with Quine as both an undergraduate and a graduate student, said that he was always impressed by Quine's high intellectual standards and his habit of reading student papers with extreme thoroughness.
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/01.18/09-quine.html (875 words)

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		Philosophical and meta-mathematical mistakes cripple the core of the metaphysical application of the Cantor’s theorem, and these mistakes either invalidate the argument or disable it by requiring question-begging premises.
		For philosophical discussions of the iterative notion of set, see George Boolos, “The Iterative Conception of Set”, Hao Wang, “The Iterative Conception of Set”, and Charles Parsons, “What is the Iterative Conception of Set?” reprinted in Benacerraf and Putnam (eds.), Philosophy of Mathematics (second edition), (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983).
		Contemporary atheistic philosophers of religion have a tendency to ignore the rich context of theological and religious tradition and to place too much credence in their own stipulative definitions of divine attributes.
	www.sunysb.edu /philosophy/faculty/gmar/cantor.txt (6245 words)

	Harvard University Press/Truth and Predication/Reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Davidson was a distinguished philosopher, and the first three chapters of this book constitute his principal statement about the concept of truth.
		The two philosophers who did the most to persuade us not to take the Cartesian caricature of the human situation seriously were the brilliant and eccentric Ludwig Wittgenstein and Donald Davidson.
		But the work of original and imaginative philosophers such as these, in the course of generations, gradually comes to have an influence on the entire culture.
	www.hup.harvard.edu /reviews/DAVTRU_R.html (233 words)

	Matthew Yglesias: Calling All Metaphysicians
		And Kieran Healy is not only married to a philosopher but the author of a sociological study of the structure of the profession which concluded that metaphysics was, along with the philosophy of language, one of the two most highly-prized subfields.
		Moralists who are not analytic philosophers do other things, and more interesting things, than "the insightful and inspiring remarks they make in praise of virtue." One of the most serious problems with analytic philosophy is the way that it makes its students proud of their inability to comprehend writers from different traditions.
		Analytic philosophers have a strong tendency to believe that the only alternative to their scientistic, detached approaches to ethics, politics, etc., is some kind of simple-minded propaganda or watered-own pop philosophy.
	yglesias.typepad.com /matthew/2005/02/calling_all_met.html (9176 words)

	Willard Van Orman Quine Obituaries (part 1)
		He envisaged, for example, a future in which epistemology, the philosophical study of knowledge, would be "naturalized" and, thus, absorbed in what we now call "cognitive science." That sort of collaboration with empirical inquiry now seems to many Anglophone philosophers the best way to advance their discipline.
		Leading philosophers, as Peter Strawson and his Oxford colleague Stuart Hampshire are clear in their estimation: "Quine is the foremost systematic philosopher who is alive today", Stuart Hampshire wrote in 1979.
		Most philosophers of the past century-including those influenced by Wittgenstein, the "logical positivists" and Oxford's school of linguistic analysis-had presumed that philosophy was concerned with meaning or concepts, whereas science was concerned with facts.
	www.wvquine.org /wvq-obit.html (9657 words)

	Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value
		For a long time, philosophers appear to have thought that the notion of intrinsic value is itself sufficiently clear to allow them to go straight to the question of what should be said to have intrinsic value.
		It seems safe to say that, before the twentieth century, most moral philosophers presupposed that the intrinsic goodness of something is a genuine property of that thing, one that is no less real than the properties (of being pleasant, of satisfying a need, or whatever) in virtue of which the thing in question is good.
		It is clear that moral philosophers since ancient times have been concerned with the distinction between the value that something has for its own sake (the sort of nonderivative value that Korsgaard calls “final value”) and the value that something has for the sake of something else to which it is related in some way.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/value-intrinsic-extrinsic (12549 words)

	HERS Output
		The aim of this course is to introduce some central philosophical topics and to demonstrate, through careful discussion of them, the characteristics of contemporary philosophical work.
		An examination of some texts of philosophical aesthetics from the 18th and 19th centuries, texts which either represent or anticipate the Romantic period.
		An examination of philosophical theories of the good life and human flourishing, and their implications for legal and political philosophy.
	www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu /Courses1999-2000/Philosophy.html (2424 words)

	Brentano's Theory of Judgement
		Many philosophers have assumed that a predicative judgement is nothing more than “the putting together of two ideas”—in the case of “S is P”—or “the separating of two ideas”—in the case of “S is not P”.
		Charles Parsons in his paper “Brentano on judgement and truth” discusses Brentano's theory of judgement as providing the background for his criticism of the correspondence theory of truth.
		Still, it is an interesting historical fact that developing a theory of judgement was a central concern of all of these philosophers, and it is simply the importance they attribute to this matter that unites their views as typically “Austrian” theories of judgement.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/brentano-judgement (5337 words)

	KryssTal : Inventions: 1850 to 1900
		Charles Chaplin, British born USA comic film actor: 1889.
		Charles Taze Russell, USA founder of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1877: born 1852.
		Charles De Gaulle, French general and president: 1890.
	www.krysstal.com /inventions_12.html (1705 words)

	HERS Output (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		An examination of how feminist philosophers have invited a rethinking of central ideas in moral and political philosophy, including the public vs. private distinction, the very idea of human nature, and the notions of contract, consent, equality, autonomy, and justice.
		In the course of this study, we shall have occasion to consider foundational philosophical issues concerning objectivity, the nature of reason, the relation between reason and emotion, and the nature of truth.
		A study of the development of philosophical theories of the soul from Aristotle to Descartes, with particular attention to (a) the changing conception of the cognitive faculties of the soul and (b) the simultaneous change in the ontology of substance.
	www.registrar.fas.harvard.edu /Courses98-99.v2/Philosophy.html (2427 words)

	Philosophia Mathematica Abstracts: Vol. 6
		Charles Parsons, Hao Wang as Philosopher and Interpreter of Goedel
		A listing is given of the published writings of the logician and philosopher Hao Wang (1921--1995), which includes all items known to the authors, including writings in Chinese and translations into other languages.
		The paper discusses the transition from informal concepts to mathematically precise notions; examples are given, and in some detail the case of lawless sequences, a concept of intuitionistic mathematics, is discussed.
	www.amath.umanitoba.ca /absvol6.html (1040 words)

	FREUD, WEBER, DURKHEIM A PHILOSOPHICAL (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		American colleges and universities are currently being influenced by a movement broadly referred to as “writing across the curriculum.” Its proponents investigate the close relationship between writing and thinking, and emphasize the idea that in all disciplines, writing can contribute significantly to learning by aiding memory, promoting synthesis of ideas, and improving reading ability.
		Historians Frank Manuel and Charles Tilly have both studied the French working classes, using some of the same sources but different methods.
		You can see from the foregoing that a methodology of university study must be rooted in actual and true knowledge of the living unity of all the sciences, and that without such knowledge and guidance can only be lifeless, spiritless, one-sided, limited.
	jac.gsu.edu /jac/4/Articles/6.htm (6309 words)

	Modal Bloopers
		As philosophers gradually freed themselves from the assumption that all words are names, they were able to focus on more tractable cases of false beliefs.
		Prominent philosophers of language in the twentieth century have equated understanding with knowledge of truth conditions (Heidelberger 1980).
		For example, some philosophers believe that `All causes precede their effects' but are not sure whether the proposition is a tautology.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~rasoren/papers/modalbloopers.html (8419 words)

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		Charles Adam and Paul Tannery, Paris: J. Vrin, 1964-75, VII, 246; and Geometrical Exposition of the Second Replies, Adam and Tannery, VII, 160.
		For more on the HOT model of what for a mental state to be a conscious state, see my "Two Concepts of Consciousness," Philosophical Studies 49, 3 (May 1986): 329-359; "A Theory of Consciousness," in The Nature of Consciousness: Philosophical Debates, ed.
		Lewis E. Hahn, La Salle, Illinois: Open Court, forthcoming 2002, §§4-5; "Introspection and Self-Interpretation," Philosophical Topics 29, 2 (Winter 2001), special issue on introspection, forthcoming, §7; and "Unity of Consciousness and the Self," MS, delivered at the 5th Annual Meeting of the Association for the Scientific Study of Consciousness, Duke Univer- sity, May 2001.
	web.gc.cuny.edu /cogsci/cmb.htm (9241 words)

	Columbia Pays Final Respects To Professor Sidney Morgenbesser (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Albert described Morgenbesser as a “philosopher in the nearly gigantic, primordial sense of the word” who knew better than most that knowledge is hard.
		Albert added, recalling how Morgenbesser once told him that there were “exactly two circumstances in which he was capable of feeling in touch with the eternal, in which he was capable of feeling that time had somehow ceased to matter.
		Harvard philosopher Hilary Putnam recalled being a student in a reading course in the philosophy of science 55 years ago when Morgenbesser was a graduate student.
	daily.nysun.com /Repository/getmailfiles.asp?Style=OliveXLib:ArticleToMail&Type=text/html&Path=NYS/2004/10/26&ID=Ar01201 (779 words)

	Willard Van Orman Quine home page by Douglas Boynton Quine
		Ullian wrote Parsons and Atkinson that the thesis was begun with Quine and that White was a replacement while Quine was on leave at Princeton in 1956-57.
		Charles Parsons was also a Harvard undergraduate (1954), as well as a Junior Fellow of the Society of Fellows (1958-61).
		Professor Donald Davidson, one of the most significant philosophers of the XX century, was born March 6, 1917 in Springfield, Massachusetts and died August 30, 2003 in California.
	www.wvquine.org (4400 words)

	Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s
		Moreover, while the artists subsequently labeled Abstract Expressionists frequently resisted categorization and often stressed the philosophical and formal distinctions among themselves, there is nevertheless a consensus among scholars that Abstract Expressionism was a cohesive intellectual and artistic experience.
		But her departure from the American art scene also served to open the way for a new generation of dealers, among them Betty Parsons, Charles Egan, Samuel Kootz, and subsequently Sidney Janis, to lay claim both to her stable of artists and to her reputation for presenting avant-garde art.
		While the remaining Abstract Expressionists continued to paint, exhibit frequently, and receive favorable critical attention (not to mention increasing prices for their work), in retrospect it is apparent that by the mid-to-late 1950s, their aesthetic leadership, albeit not their public popularity, was on the wane.
	www.npg.si.edu /exh/rebels/painters.htm (1992 words)

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		\par When faced with such formidable philosophical puzzles, many mathematicians retreat to a nihilistic formalism---``We are just playing meaningless games with empty symbols''---but none of us really believes that!\longpage{13 pc}\pagebreak\ \par This ``double-think'' makes no difference to the mathematician, but it is not acceptable to the philosopher.
		Accepting the Quine/Putnam argument that at least some mathematical entities are real because they are indispensable for physics, she also adopts G\"odel's thesis that we have a faculty of mathematical intuition, basing it on speculative but plausible neurological mechanisms.
		The next step, the evaluation of this evidence, is a daunting undertaking, but I've argued that the set theoretic realist faces this challenge in the distinguished company of thinkers representing a wide range of competing mathematical philosophies, structuralism, modalism, and a version of nominalism among them.
	www.ams.org /journals/bull/pre-1996-data/199501/199501019.tex.html (3819 words)

	Essays in Philosophy -- Book Review
		Most philosophers had regarded these axioms as ad hoc attempts to avoid Russell’s, Burali-Forti’s, and other set-theoretical paradoxes, but Boolos demonstrates how a core of Zermelo’s axioms (excluding the Axioms of Choice and Replacement) can be logically deduced from a set of axioms characterizing the idea of the formation of sets in stages over time.
		Boolos criticizes the view of Charles Parsons (and D. Martin) that it makes sense to use second-order quantifiers when first-order quantifiers range over entities that do not form a set.
		Boolos claims that Frege deserves a place in the philosophical pantheon beside Descartes, Leibniz, and Kant: “What is sad is not so much that Frege’s system turned out to be vulnerable to Russell’s paradox as that both he and we failed to realize how valuable his actual accomplishment was.
	www.humboldt.edu /~essays/marrev.html (1585 words)

	Liar Paradox in TI (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		Some philosophers are inclined to say that Liar-like sentences are meaningless.
		The problem with this response is that it is ad hoc unless coupled with some independent story (about truth, meaning, or the like) a consequence of which is that Liar-like sentences are meaningless.
		Although three-valued logics of the kind suggested by Charles Parsons block the inference of outright contradictions from Liar-type sentences, they still permit one to draw conclusions that are neither true nor false from true premises.
	home.alamedanet.net /~sandyhodges/KeyLiar.htm (1379 words)

	February 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		1867 - August W Messer, German philosopher, educator, psychologist
		1141 - Hugo of St. Victor, philosopher, theologian, mystic
		1922 - Gerardus J P Bolland, Dutch philosopher
	www.1-free-software.com /en/wikipedia/f/fe/february_11.html (1283 words)

	Kantbib
		In E. Haldane and G. Ross, trans., Philosophical Works, vol.1, pp.
		Mackie, J. "The Transcendental 'I' " - In Zak van Straaten, ed., Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P. Strawson, pp.
		In his Mind, I, Language and Reality: Philosophical Essays, vol.2, pp.215-71- Cambridge University Press, 1975.
	www.csus.edu /indiv/m/mccormickm/Kantbib.htm (1430 words)

	Bibliography of Nino Cocchiarella
		Member of American Philosophical Association (Central Division), Association of Symbolic Logic, The Philosophy of Science Association, Society of Exact Philosophy.
		"Philosophical Perspectives on Quantification in Tense and Modal Logic", in Handbook of Philosophical Logic, vol.
		"Philosophical Perspectives on Formal Theories of Predication," in Handbook of Philosophical Logic, vol.
	www.formalontology.it /cocchiarella_biblio.htm (5703 words)

	Philosophia Mathematica Hao Wang Bibliography
		Corrections and additions should be sent to Charles Parsons.
		Such information, as well as any other additions or corrections, should be sent to Charles Parsons.
		A listing is given of the published writings of the logician and philosopher Hao Wang (1921–1995), which includes all items known to the authors, including writings in Chinese and translations into other languages.
	www.umanitoba.ca /pm/wang.html (3435 words)

	Callan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		For example, without the induction coil neither radio waves, x-rays, nor the electron would have been discovered and exploited as they were.
		The first induction coils were developed by a now forgotten Natural Philosopher, Nicholas Callan of St. Patrick's College in Maynooth, Eire.
		He was a contemporary of Charles Parsons' father, the Third Earl of Rosse, who had a position on the Board of Visitors to Maynooth College.
	chem.ch.huji.ac.il /~eugeniik/history/callan.html (1749 words)

	Quine Wins Kyoto Prize
		Before he could do so, five Philosophy Department colleagues - Stanley Cavell, Burton Dreben, Warren Goldfarb, Robert Nozick, and Charles Parsons - showed up and spirited him off for a surprise lunch in Harvard Square.
		Quine is one of the most important philosophers of our time.
		Reviewing Quine's lighter side in Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary (1987), Hilary Putnam (now the Cogan University Professor) has praised his colleague as "not only a great philosopher, but also a master of the English language and a genuine polymath" (London Review of Books).
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/1996/07.11/QuineWinsKyotoP.html (713 words)

	Oxford University Press
		`This book (Volume I) is unique, and every philosopher or historian of logic will be determined to possess it.
		They give considerable insight into Gödel's own achievements in logic, set theory and physics and also into his philosophical views.
		will certainly enlarge our appreciation of Gödel's scientific and philosophical thought as well as our understanding of his motivations.
	www.oup.com /ca/isbn/0-19-850073-4 (972 words)

	Bibliography of Charles Parsons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
		A.-T. Tymieniecka (ed.) (in collaboration with C. Parsons), Contributions to Logic and Methodology in Honor of J. Bochenski, North-Holland.
		V. Held, K. Nielsen and C. Parsons (eds.), Philosophy and Political Action, Oxford University Press.
		"Hao Wang as philosopher and interpreter of Gödel," Ibid.
	phil.flet.keio.ac.jp /person/sagisawa/cparsons.htm (1568 words)

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