Gerald Bivens

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Readings

• Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology
• On the Very Idea of a Conceptual Scheme
• Creative Democracy
• The Pragmatic Turn
• Reconstruction in Philosophy
• Afterword: The Democratic Forest
• The New Riddle of Induction
• The Autumn Garden
• The Democratic Way of Life
• The Will to Believe
• A Pragmatic Conception of the A Priori
• Making Disagreement Matter
• Some Consequences of Four Incapacities
• The Fixation of Belief
• How to Make Our Ideas Clear
• Apology
• Laws
• Theaetetus
• Truth as Convenient Friction
• Meaning and Reference
• On What There Is
• Two Dogmas of Empiricism
• Natural Kinds
• The Priority of Democracy to Philosophy
• Afterthoughts
• Prophesy Deliverance!
• Dispensing with Metaphysics in Religious Thought

Cartesian motifs

1. The ontological dualism of mind and body
2. The subjective individualism implicit in the appeal to direct personal verification
3. The method of universal doubt that is supposed to lead us to incorrigible truths
4. The conviction that unless we discover firm foundations for knowledge we cannot avoid epistemological skepticism
5. The belief that knowledge of the world consists of having ideas that correctly represent and correspond to this world
6. The doctrine that vagueness is “unreal” and that the epistemological endeavor is to know clearly and distinctly a completely determinate reality
7. And, most fundamentally, that we can break out of language or systems of signs and have direct immediate knowledge of non-linguistic objects

"Analytic ideology" problems

1. The problem of counterfactuals
2. The mind-body problem
3. Reductionism
4. The logical character of verification and falsification
5. The analytic-synthetic distinction
6. The distinction between conceptual analysis and empirical investigation
7. Reasons and causes
8. And a few other related problems