Category: Guest Posts
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Vito Caiati on Pope Leo XIV: An Initial Assessment
The following just over the transom from Dr. Vito Caiati, posted verbatim with a few minor edits and additions of hyperlinks. Asterisks refer to footnotes. ………………………… Taking a hard look at the composition of the electors, 81 percent of whom were chosen by Bergoglio; the rapid elevation of Prevost by him*; and the gauchiste content…
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Guest Post: Buckner on Prichard on Kant
PRICHARD ON KANT: IN DEFENCE OF THE ANGLOSPHERE D.E. Buckner Bill Vallicella discusses here the ‘standard picture’ of Kant ’s transcendental idealism as a theory that affirms the unknowability of the ‘real’ (things in themselves) and relegates knowledge to the purely subjective realm of representations (appearances), adding that “P. F. Strawson and H. A. Prichard…
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Guest Post: On the Fallacy of Intentionalism
ON THE FALLACY OF INTENTIONALISM D.E. Buckner, July 2021 Bill Vallicella critiques a short passage in my recent book (Reference and Identity in Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Scriptures: The Same God? Rowman and Littlefield, 2020, p. 195) and he levels the following four charges. 1. Buckner has wrongly characterised intentionality as object-dependence. 2. Buckner has wrongly…
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Guest Post: Vito Caiati on David Brooks
I asked long-time reader Dr. Vito Caiati, historian, to comment on David Brook's Atlantic article, America is Having a Moral Convulsion. Vito responded with alacrity and acerbity, and I have thrown in my two cents. Comments enabled. …………………………… 1. The essay is entirely descriptive rather than analytical in that it presents various economic and sociological…
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Guest Post: Is There a Real Distinction Between Reductionism and Eliminativism?
What follows is a guest post by a long-standing card-carrying member of the MavPhil commentariat, William the Nominalist. He is eager to hear any thoughtful and pertinent comments you may have. The distinction between reductionism and eliminativism is widely recognised in the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of science. It also seems to be very…