Andrew Cullison

In Ways-Millianism: A Puzzle (Part One), I explained how ways of believing can be employed to respond to Frege Puzzles. In this post, I’ll explain how this strategy gives us a nice tool for our philosopher’s toolkit. However, adding that tool introduces what appears to me to be a serious puzzle. I’ll discuss that puzzle [...]

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I want to discuss a puzzle for a view called Ways-Millianism. I’ll do it in two parts. In this post I’m going to briefly present a Frege Puzzle for Millianism and the Ways-Millianism response. The puzzle I want to discuss relies on understanding how the Ways-Millian responds to Frege Puzzles. If you’re already familiar with [...]

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The Puzzle A nearly omniscient being is going to put money in two boxes on Wednesday. No one will touch the boxes after that. Suppose you KNOW that the nearly omniscient being is 99% accurate in predicting whether the person on Thursday will open both boxes or just one box. The omniscient being will make [...]

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UPDATE: I posted this same thing over at Prosblogion - there’s been some discussion there. We don’t have a complete science of the brain yet, but look at what recent neuro-science has shown. Don’t the recent successes of neuro-science give us good reason to believe that there will one day be adequate evidence for the [...]

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