There are three theories in the epistemology of modality that have received sustained
attention over the past 20 years (1998–2018): conceivability-theory, counterfactual-theory …

Enactivism has influentially argued that the traditional intellectualist 'act-content'model of
intentionality is insufficient both phenomenologically and naturalistically, and minds are built …

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Robert Brandom's expressivism argues that not all semantic content may be made fully
explicit. This view connects in interesting ways with recent movements in philosophy of …

Although pragmatism and phenomenology have both contributed significantly to the
genealogy of so-called “4E”–embodied, embedded, enactive and extended–cognition, there …

In many diagrams one seems to perceive necessity–one sees not only that something is so,
but that it must be so. That conflicts with a certain empiricism largely taken for granted in …

Names: Hull, Kathleen A., editor. Title: Peirce on perception and reasoning: from icons to
logic/edited by Kathleen A. Hull and Richard Kenneth Atkins. Description: 1 [edition].| New …

The terms 'modal'and 'modality'admit of two kinds of qualification. On the one hand, the
terms can be qualified by being restricted to the alethic range or to the non-alethic range …

Much mainstream analytic epistemology is built around a sceptical treatment of modality
which descends from Hume. The roots of this scepticism are argued to lie in Hume's …

In this paper I examine Grace A. de Laguna's theory of universals in its historical context and
in relation to contemporary debates in analytic metaphysics. I explain the central features of …