Wide Scope

Here’s an interesting op-ed from The Wall Street Journal. A Dartmouth professor is “threatening to sue her students because, she claims, their “anti-intellectualism” violated her civil rights.” Here’s more from the article.

Priya Venkatesan taught English at Dartmouth College. She maintains that some of her students were so unreceptive of “French narrative theory” that it amounted [...]

This is interesting. A while back I posted about some pretty interesting cognitive science studies about people having certain perceptual seemings that are caused by their expectations to see a certain object. Here is that post.
Then, I suggested that experiments of this kind in cognitive science might cut against attempts in experimental philosophy to draw [...]

I’m starting to warm up to the idea that there may be a kind of rational inference (apart from disjunctive syllogism) from a known disjunction.
This is very half-baked, but here’s the idea - suppose you’ve got a known disjunction (P or Q). Suppose you know that P is possible, but you’re not sure whether or [...]

Someone visited my blog by searching “What is Wide Scope Descriptivism?” This is a pretty great coincidence because I’m currently working on a paper arguing against Wide Scope Descriptivism (aka Widescopism).
To that person: Here is the first paragraph of that paper. I hope it answers your question.
Widescopism is a version of descriptivism about proper names. [...]