dc.contributor.author | Egerton, Karl | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-01-27T11:57:37Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-01-27T11:57:37Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2019-02-18 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Egerton , K 2019 , ' It Takes More than Moore to Answer Existence-Questions ' , Erkenntnis . https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00107-4 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 0165-0106 | |
dc.identifier.other | ORCID: /0000-0003-0917-2063/work/68244653 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/22124 | |
dc.description | © 2019 Springer Nature. This is a post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of an article published in Erkenntnis. The final authenticated version is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-019-00107-4 | |
dc.description.abstract | Several recent discussions of metaphysics disavow existence-questions, claiming that they are metaphysically uninteresting because trivially settled in the affirmative by Moorean facts. This is often given as a reason to focus metaphysical debate instead on questions of grounding. I argue that the strategy employed to undermine existence-questions fails against its usual target: Quineanism. The Quinean can protest that the formulation given of their position is a straw man: properly understood, as a project of explication, Quinean metaphysics does not counsel us to choose between obvious ordinary-language claims and absurd revisionist claims, even if appeal to Moorean facts is permitted. | en |
dc.format.extent | 22 | |
dc.format.extent | 798218 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Erkenntnis | |
dc.subject | Philosophy | |
dc.subject | Logic | |
dc.title | It Takes More than Moore to Answer Existence-Questions | en |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Humanities | |
dc.contributor.institution | Philosophy | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2020-02-18 | |
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rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1007/s10670-019-00107-4 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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