Pesky Essays on the Logic of Philosophy (eBook)

Kenneth Lucey is Sanford Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of Nevada, Reno, U.S.A. He is a philosophical generalist with wide interests in epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of religion and philosophical logic.

Introduction.- Knowledge & Justification.- What is Knowing?.- Scales of Epistemic Appraisal.- On Epistemic Preferability.- On Being Unjustified.- “I Should Have Known It!”: Gilbert Ryle and Poker Knowledge.- Philosophy of Religion.- An Agnostic Argument.- “Lucey’s Agnosticism: The Believer’s Reply by Tomis Kapitan.- Theism, Necessity and Invalidity.- Logical Form and the Ontological Argument.- Philosophical Logic.- Kant’s Analytic/Synthetic Distinction.- A New Counter-Example to Modus Ponens.- Comments on Lucey’s “An Invalid Instance of Modus Ponens” by Ted Sider.- The Ancestral Relation Without Classes.- Laws of Excluded Middle And a Temporal Dilemma.- The Logic of ‘Unless’.- Harry Frankfurt on Why We Care About Truth.- Causality and the Mind.- An Analysis of Causal Contribution; (co-authored with Carol A. Lucey).- The Testability of the Identity Theory.- On Being Purely Psychological.- “Comments on Lucey’s Paper” by R. M. Chisholm.-Ontological Parasites.- Is There A Set of All Truths?.- The Generalization Argument Defended.-Taxonomies & Teaching.- Rudolf Carnap on False Propositions & Specificity.