Philosophy Quotes

"The causal theory of reference explains how names get their meaning"

"Counterfactuals tell us about possible worlds and causation"

"Qualia and consciousness present genuine philosophical puzzles"

"Twin Earth cases show that content depends on environment"

"Modality and metaphysics are deeply interconnected"

"Reference is fundamentally historical and causal"

"Intuitions about identity guide our philosophical work"

"Kripke's Wittgenstein: rule-following admits no fact of the matter"

"The rule-following paradox challenges the very foundation of language"

"Our community and practices give content to our words"

"The boat of Theseus problem reveals deep issues about identity"

"Possible worlds semantics captures the logic of necessity and possibility"

"Names are instruments for keeping track of objects across possible worlds"

"The speaker's intention matters for determining reference"

"The debate about essentialism cannot be resolved by mere linguistic analysis"

"Existence in some possible world does not entail concrete existence"

"Context determines the reference of indexical expressions"

"The puzzle of the meter: how do we fix the reference of a standard?"

"Our understanding of necessity requires understanding possible worlds"

"Consciousness and intentionality remain deep mysteries"

"Identity across possible worlds depends on essential properties"

"The reference of 'I' depends on who is speaking"

"The causal view explains how names manage to refer despite ignorance"

"Denotation is not determined by properties alone"

"Proper names are directly referential"

"We refer to objects in virtue of causal connection to them"

"The question of necessity is not merely linguistic"

"Identity statements between proper names can be synthetic a posteriori"

"Demonstratives introduce special problems for meaning and reference"

"Modality is not reducible to language or concepts"