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Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
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The article was published on 1969-01-01 and is currently open access. It has received 2239 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Fundamental ontology & Ontology.read more
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On the conceptual basis for the count and mass noun distinction
TL;DR: This paper proposed a cognitive individuation hypothesis that count nouns refer to entities that speakers conceptualise as kinds of individuals whereas mass nouns describe entities that they conceptualize as non-individuated.
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Putnam's theory of natural kinds and their names is not the same as kripke's
TL;DR: The Kripke-Putnam theory of naturalkind terms has been referred to as the theory of natural kinds for over 30 years as discussed by the authors, and the result is two very different theories about natural kinds and their names.
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Physicalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation
TL;DR: The indeterminacy thesis of translation is probably the most well known and most widely discussed thesis in contemporary philosophy as discussed by the authors. But despite its widespread discussion both the content of the thesis and the arguments for it remain relatively unclear, and the main reason for this unclarity is that the thesis characteristically takes two different forms: (a) an epistemological form, in which it concerns the relation between translation manuals and the possible evidence or data which we use to choose between such manuals, and (b) an ontological form which is expressed by saying that there is no fact
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Dewey's theory of emotions: The unity of thought and emotion in naturalistic functional co-ordination of behaviors
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The Kantian Sublime and the Revelation of Freedom
TL;DR: Clewis as mentioned in this paper examines the ways in which different kinds of sublimity reveal freedom and indirectly contribute to morality, and discusses how Kant's account of natural sub-limity suggests that we have an indirect duty with regard to nature.