Harman, Gilbert

"Relativism about truth faces the problem of being self-refuting."

"Our moral intuitions often conflict with each other in surprising ways."

"Consciousness poses a greater challenge to physicalism than most philosophers acknowledge."

"The distinction between knowledge and justified true belief is less clear than Gettier supposed."

"Language acquisition involves both innate structure and environmental input."

"Deliberation requires the possibility of genuine alternatives."

"Metaphysical questions often dissolve when we examine our conceptual schemes carefully."

"We should not assume that philosophical puzzles have solutions."

"The unity of science may be a regulative ideal rather than a metaphysical fact."

"Ambiguity pervades natural language in ways formal logic cannot fully capture."

"Truth conditions cannot be specified without reference to interpretation."

"The concept of justice requires balancing competing considerations."

"Analytical philosophy makes progress by clarifying conceptual confusion."

"Belief is not always explicitly represented in the mind."

"The hard problem of consciousness resists straightforward solutions."

"We construct meaning through social interaction and practice."

"Moral realism faces challenges from the queerness of moral properties."

"Inference to the best explanation is a fundamental form of reasoning."

"The scope of moral responsibility is narrower than common sense suggests."

"Language does not mirror the structure of reality in any simple way."

"Our understanding of color is partly conventional and partly biological."

"Skepticism about the external world, while logically coherent, is not rationally motivated."

"Intentionality is the mark of the mental but not its essence."

"The problem of universals reveals deep issues about abstraction and predication."

"Practical reasoning involves more than just calculating expected utility."

"The notion of a basic action is fundamental to understanding human behavior."

"Counterfactual reasoning structures much of our thinking about causation."

"Moral knowledge, if it exists, does not follow the model of empirical knowledge."

"The privacy of experience does not entail the privacy of meaning."

"Convention determines some aspects of linguistic meaning but not all."