Monday 1 March 2010

Demons, No Ghosts

--- By J. L. Speranza, of the Grice Club
----------- For the Carnap Corner

From an onice source:

[PDF]

"Metaphysics After Carnap: the Ghost Who Walks?"

by H Price

"an argument for Monism, where

Carnap requires Pluralism, as it were."


"I want to show that this is a mistake,

and rests on a confusion

between two theoretical [things]."

www.usyd.edu.au/time/price/preprints/metameta.pdf


--- Metaphysics SHOULD NOT be a ghost who talks, but if H. Price is so fastidious about it, let's use "metaphilosophy". :)

1 comment:

  1. Price, who I know, is particularly (as it were) useful in this piece for his discussion or quotes from Ryle. Mainly from "Ghost in the machine" category mistake sort of thing from "Concept of Mind". So not crucial to our main arguments, but interesting to give some flesh to R and R* repeatedly emphasised by Grice, WoW. Ryle, that is.

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