Harman, Gilbert

"Language is fundamentally social and practical."

"Thought depends on the body and its interaction with the world."

"Moral reasoning requires sensitivity to context."

"Concepts are tools for organizing experience."

"We reason better with stories than with abstract arguments."

"The mind is not a passive receiver of information."

"Understanding requires attending to how things are used."

"Moral agreement is sometimes impossible and that is acceptable."

"Reasoning proceeds through comparison of cases."

"Thought is fundamentally about relations among representations."

"Learning is the accumulation of cases and patterns."

"Concepts change as our understanding develops."

"The referent of a term depends on causal history, not meaning alone."

"Moral intuitions require critical examination."

"Language divides the world in ways that reveal our concerns."

"Understanding is grasping how things fit together."

"We should trust our moral instincts less than we typically do."

"Analogical reasoning is not less rigorous than deductive reasoning."

"Thought requires conceptual resources developed through experience."

"Moral truth, if it exists, is not easily accessible through intuition."

"Reasoning is embedded in social and practical contexts."

"Concepts are not fixed but evolve with use."

"We understand through exemplars and prototypes."

"Disagreement in ethics may reflect genuine indeterminacy."

"The mind is characterized by its representational capacities."

"Learning requires active organization of experience."

"Meaning emerges from use and context."

"Moral reasoning is not algorithmic."

"Our conceptual system shapes our perception of reality."

"Understanding involves seeing similarities across cases."