So, I’ve been obsessed lately with a couple of really good posts over on Thoughts, Arguments, and Rants about decision theory. In particular, there’s this post about a game Brian Weatherson calls (for reasons that are clear if you read the post) “Asymmetric Death in Damascus.”
Weatherson’s Original Example
Here’s a quick summary of the game. Predictor [...]
So, at first, I was really excited by the argument I’m going to make in this post, and I still think it’s kind of fun. But all it really is is yet another argument for two-boxing. And there are kazillions of arguments for two-boxing out there. At any rate, here’s one more, presented for your [...]
Although I’m a realist about scientific entities, I’m not a realist about natural kinds. In fact, anti-realism about natural kinds was, at one point, going to be the focus of my dissertaion (around and about my second year). Nothing *deeply* has changed about my problems with most standard accounts of natural kind terms, but I [...]
I’m not really a verificationist (see here for the beginnings of my account of content), but I have a lot of general sympathy for verificationism, and I think the verificationists were certainly onto something both true and important, even if they didn’t get the formulation quite right.
I am not a metaphysical anti-realist, though, and it’s always [...]
