Alethic pluralism for pragmatists

Alethic fictionalism, alethic nihilism, and the Liar Paradox

Recently, several philosophers have proposed fictionalist accounts of truthtalk, as a means for resolving the semantic pathology that the Liar Paradox appears to present. These alethic fictionalists aim to vindicate truth-talk as a kind of as if discourse, while rejecting that the talk attributes any real property of truth. Liggins (Analysis 74:566–574, 2014) has recently critically assessed on...

Ideologues or Pragmatists?∗

We study a model of electoral control where the politician is a policy expert, but the voter is not. First, we focus on the case of an “ideologue,” i.e., a politician who always wants the same policy implemented regardless of the state. We show that the voter’s lack of policy expertise comes at no cost to him, but may come at an electoral cost to the politician. Next, we turn to the case of a “...

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Religious pluralism or pluralism within religion

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A Non-Alethic Approach to Faultless Disagreement

This paper motivates and describes a non-alethic approach to faultless disagreement involving predicates of personal taste (PPTs). In section 1 I describe problems faced by Sundell’s (2011) indexicalist approach, and MacFarlane’s (2014) relativist approach. In section 2 I develop an alternative, non-alethic, approach. The non-alethic approach is broadly expressivist in that it endorses both the...