"Displacement and quantification without representation"

Perry and Recanati have argued that thought and speech can concern entities that they do not represent. This is possible because speakers and thinkers are pragmatically situated within their environs.

"Since Donald Davidson issued his challenge to anticausalism in 1963, most philosophers have espoused the view that our actions are causally explained by the reasons why we do them. This Davidsonian consensus, however, rests on a faulty argument."

"The etiological account of teleological function is beset by several difficulties, which I propose to solve by grafting onto the etiological theory a subordinated goal-contribution clause. This approach enables us to ascribe neither too many teleofunctions nor too few …"

He could not have picked for his example two professions where this claim is more completely and precisely wrong. www.cnbc.com/2025/03/26/b...

"The biomedical literature makes extensive use of the concept of a genetic program. So far, however, the nature of genetic programs has received no satisfactory elucidation from the standpoint of computer science."

The late Daniel Dennett was born on this date in 1942. After his passing last spring, we put together a special retrospective episode with his friend and admirer, Jenann Ismael from @jhuartssciences.bsky.social: www.philosophytalk.org/shows/daniel... #PhilSky #philosophy

A Viennese in Cyprus. -- I had to visit the statue of Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic school. #photography #philosophy

Turns out many of my books and articles were among the millions of books Meta pirated to train its AI. The article blow allows you to search to see if your work was also pirated.