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Frontloading and Fregean Sense: Reply to Neta, Schroeter, and Stanley

I would like to thank Ram Neta, Laura Schroeter, and Jason Stanley for their generous and probing comments on Constructing the World. 1 All three of them home in on key issues in the argumentation of the book. Neta and Schroeter focus on the argument for A Priori Scrutability, and especially the key frontloading argument for that thesis. Stanley focuses on whether the semantic values that are d...

Reply to J M Stanley: fiddling and clarity.

The author responds to John M. Stanley's criticism ("More fiddling with the definition of death?" Journal of Medical Ethics 1987 Mar; 13(1): 21-22) and clarifies the arguments in his own previous article ("Why let people die?" Journal of Medical Ethics 1986 Jun; 12(2): 83-86). Gillett contends that we must decide what ethical stance we should adopt toward the living but nonsentient, devoid of ...

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