2: Stipulating Analyticity
from The Middle of Things
In the first episode, we concluded that Jackson's metaphysics by conceptual analysis would ultimately rest on at least a partial rehabilitation of analyticity. In consideration of our prospects, we read a thorough and very historically informed defense of analyticity against Quine's challenge. Main reading: Paul Boghossian, "Analyticity Reconsidered", https://philpapers.org/rec/BOGAR. SEP reference: https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/apriori/; https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/analytic-synthetic/. Also mentioned: Gideon Rosen, "Mathematics and Metaphysical Naturalism", https://philpapers.org/rec/CLABCT-2; Lewis Carroll, "What the Tortoise Said to Achilles", https://philpapers.org/rec/CARWTT-2; The Putnam bit about vixens and foxes, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMHtgrmpvYM.
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