...: the necessity of identity and the substitutivity of identicals into modal contexts. modal logic necessity normativism conventionalism analyticity Burgess (1997) , building on Quine (1953) , convincingly argued that claims in quantified modal logic cannot be understood as synonymous with or logically...

...Rea Golan Quine's argument is praised by many as powerful and convincing, indeed, one that refutes logical conventionalism outright (see, e.g., Benacerraf 1973 : 676; Sider 2011 : 216; Soames 2003 : 265). Yet, there are responses to it, ¹ as well as attempts to reconstruct...

... of common ground. speech acts illocutionary force uptake intentionalism conventionalism common ground When two people use language, it is like shaking hands, playing a piano duet, or paddling a two-person canoe: It takes coordination, even collaboration, to achieve. Herbert H. Clark ( 1992 : xvi) We...

... are sometimes said to be true by convention. Insofar as this slogan is kept distinct from that of ‘truth in virtue of meaning’ (which is not always the case), it tends to refer to the suggestion that necessary truths are true because we have conventionally stipulated that they are to be treated as true...

...C.M. Melenovsky In the first section, I introduce the Rawlsian theory as the dominant non-consequentialist form of conventionalism. The Rawlsian view grounds our reason to follow the rules of a practice on the Principle of Fair Play (PFP). While the specific form of the PFP is disputed, the basic...

.... conventionalism analyticity truth by convention linguistic theories of necessity a priori According to conventionalism , some truths are true by convention or in virtue of meaning . The logical positivists and other scientifically minded mid-twentieth-century philosophers applied...

.... This paper addresses several of Van Belle's criticisms of the progressive character of democratic peace studies in order to advance the understanding of methods of inference that can stimulate progress in IR and political science. democratic peace paleontology strong inference conventionalism...

... or decided upon (i.e., conventionalism). The essay then applies these consid- erations to the problem of the demarcation of the normal from the pathological. I argue that the common formulations of this dispute commit a fallacy, as they characterize the “normal” as a state of the organism...

... employment of the concept. It then outlines the emergence of conventions and conventionalism in philosophy, examines Poincaré’s conventionalism and its relationship with rationality, and considers the implications of Poincaré’s conventionalism for post-Keynesian economics. Boylan Thomas A conventions post...

... conventionalist accounts hold, it appears that promissory obligations are not owed to promisees in particular, but instead to all those who contribute to the promising practice. This chapter argues that this “directionality objection” against conventionalism fails. First, it distinguishes between two forms...

...This chapter examines the contributions of Zaki Naguib Mahmoud and Yasin Khalil to Arab philosophy, particularly their development of Logical Positivism and Formalist Conventionalism. The chapter explores how these philosophies were influenced by Western logical positivism and formalism while being...

... constructivism shows that issues about moral realism and its alternatives are subsidiary, not central, to normative moral philosophy—and that justice is central to morals. Chapter 2 details the central issues about objectivity and conventionalism by reconsidering Socrates’ justly famous question...

... that nothing could be both God and necessary, due to the implications of a certain sort of conventionalism. The chapter shows that this argument generalizes into one not so obviously indebted to that view. But even that version of it fails. Another pair suggest that a concrete necessary being would be a modal...

...Examines the initial critique of justice‐based political theory. This critical movement was not so much a resistance to the idea of justice as to its Universalist pretensions. An attempt was thus made to root political theory in a form of conventionalism. This chapter examines the sophisticated...

.... communitarianism conventionalism nationalism neo Aristotelianism normative theory political theory Republicanism Hayek F Herder G Marxism Mazzini G Mill J S Renan E Benda J Kedourie E Popper Karl Tamir Yael Kantianism McCormick N Miller David Hume David Aristotelianism Aristotle Gadamer Hans...

... normativity prudence authority Croome v Tasmania 1997 Shapiro Scott Tasmania conventional norms in legal point of view Categorical Imperative law normativity normativity of law norms conventions legal norms conventional norms conventionalism descriptive jurisprudence legal positivism some...

... Simon Hale Bob S4 modal logic counterfactuals circularity infinite regress transmissive explanation Lewis David conventionalism modal Sider Theodore naturalness time metaphysics of possible worlds Blackburn's dilemma necessity conventionalism regress circularity Simon Blackburn raises...

..., and that living the life of a person involves occupying a space within a social or cultural infrastructure of the sort that beings like us naturally develop. The social aspect of the view raises a specter of conventionalism, which is addressed by considering a variety of particular cases. characteristic standard...

...-based account does embody a sort of conventionalism that is inconsistent with the theory-based account: “It is not until after Socrates has begun to spring his trap that Thrasymachus moves to reject the conventionalism which has caused the 71 problems for his opening claim.” ¹²...

... shows that Dworkin's rejection of Hartian positivism as a theory of the subject matter and truth conditions of legal statements is consistent with Hart's adoption of conventionalism in descriptive jurisprudence. conduct Dworkin Ronald officials Coleman Jules L inclusive soft positivism Soper E P...