Even if someone knew the entire physical history of the world, and every mental event were identical with a physical, it would notfollow that he coul….

Nothing in the world, no object or event, would be true or false if there were not thinking creatures..

Mental events such as perceivings, rememberings, decisions, and actions resist capture in the net of physical theory..

If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent and true by ou….

Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often in philosophy, it is….

Terminological infelicities have a way of breeding conceptual confusion..

There is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. Thereis therefore no suc….

There are three basic problems: how a mind can know the world of nature, how it is possible for one mind to know another, and how it is possible to k….

The dominant metaphor of conceptual relativism, that of differing points of view, seems to betray an underlying paradox. Differentpoints of view make….