Irish Contemporary Landscapes in Literature and the Arts

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Super Pragmatic Paradoxes....Pages 3-10
Fences and Ceilings: Schrödinger’s Cat and Other Animals....Pages 11-14
The Paradoxes of Indicative Conditionals....Pages 15-19
Pretending to Infer....Pages 20-30
The Non-Existence of Probabilistic Inductive Support....Pages 31-41
Front Matter....Pages 43-43
On Certainty....Pages 45-55
Truth and Status Rerum....Pages 56-67
Knowledge and Rationality....Pages 68-75
Language and Philosophy: Some Suggestions for Further Reflection....Pages 76-85
Languageless Creatures and Communication....Pages 86-94
Front Matter....Pages 95-95
Locke’s Idea of an Idea....Pages 97-105
The Chinese Room Argument: An Exercise in Computational Philosophy of Mind....Pages 106-118
Free-Will and Determinism....Pages 119-130
Two All-or-Nothing Theories of Freedom....Pages 131-136
Contra Hume: On Making Things Happen....Pages 137-145
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Locke on Solidity and Incompressibility....Pages 149-157
What did Aristotle Mean by ‘Nature Does Nothing in Vain’?....Pages 158-166
Could the World Embody God?....Pages 167-174
Locke on Government....Pages 175-184
The Philosophy of Education?....Pages 185-193
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Education: Anti-racist, Multi-ethnic and Multi-cultural....Pages 194-205
Back Matter....Pages 206-211