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University of Connecticut. 203 Manchester Hall, U-1054. Storrs, CT 06269, USA. 860-486-9470. lionel.shapiro@uconn.edu. My research interests center around the conceptual tools used in understanding the intentionality of language and thought (particularly the roles of truth and propositional content).
Lionel Shapiro (February 12, 1908 – May 27, 1958) was a Canadian journalist and novelist. A war correspondent for The Montreal Gazette , he landed at the Allied invasion of Sicily , Salerno and Juno Beach on D-Day with the Canadian forces.
- Early Modern Philosophy
- Wilfrid Sellars, 20th Century Philosophy
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This paper situates the conclusions of the following two papers (presented here in highly condensed form) in a broader philosophical context. I examine the pressures leading Descartes and Locke to invoke two ways in which thought is directed at objects. For each philosopher, the two kinds of "ofness" come apart as a result of a distinctive rational...
Two currently much discussed views about truth, truth pluralism and truth relativism, are found in Sellars’s writings. I show that his motivations for adopting these views are interestingly different from those shared by most of their recent advocates. First, I explain how Sellars comes to embrace a version of truth pluralism. I argue that his vers...
In this analysis of the filmed discussion between P.F. Strawson and Gareth Evans about truth (1973), I argue that both philosophers actually agree about truth, espousing a Ramseyan minimalism. Contrary to appearances, Strawson is not defending a pluralism about truth. Where Strawson and Evans disagree is about how to explain the "extensive coverage...
Lionel Shapiro. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (1):141-60 ( 2004 ) Copy BIBTEX. Abstract. Brandom's "inferentialism"—his theory that contentfulness consists in being governed by inferential norms—proves dubiously compatible with his own deflationary approach to intentional objectivity.
Philosophical Classics. This course is an introduction to characteristic questions and methods of the Western philosophical tradition, based on a close reading of three of its central texts: Plato’s Republic (4th century BC), René Descartes’s Meditations (1641), and George Berkeley’s Three Dialogues (1713).
Lionel Shapiro. Professor of Philosophy. Research interests: Non-classical approaches to paradox, truth theories, philosophy of logic. Link. http://shapiro.philosophy.uconn.edu.
Lionel Shapiro is a professor at University of Connecticut, Department of Philosophy. Follow them to stay up to date with their professional activities in philosophy, and browse their publications such as "LP, K3, and FDE as Substructural Logics", "Toward 'Perfect Collections of Properties': Locke on the Constitution of Substantial Sorts", and ...
