Naturalism, Reference and Ontology

The Editor: Chase B. Wrenn earned his Ph.D. in philosophy from Washington University in St. Louis, working under the supervision of Roger Gibson. He is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Alabama, where he is also director of the undergraduate Mind and Brain program. He has previously published articles in such journals as The Philosophical Quarterly, The Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, The Southern Journal of Philosophy, and Theoria.

Contents: Chase B. Wrenn: Introduction – Richard Creath: The Apparent A Priori and Four Things to do About It – Lars Bergström: A Defense of Quinean Naturalism – David Henderson/Terence Horgan: Would You Really Rather be Lucky than Good? – Chase B. Wrenn: Naturalism and Belief-centered Epistemology – Josefa Toribio: Intuitional Content, Nonconceptual Content and Perceptual Justification – J. Robert Thompson: Defending Quine’s Naturalistic Ontology – Kenneth Shockley: Charity, Humanity, Empathy: What Room for Value? – Robert B. Barrett, Jr.: Logic Beyond the Legacy – Alex Orenstein: Quine versus Quine – Ernest Lepore/Francis Jeffry Pelletier: Linguistics and Philosophy – Joseph S. Ullian: Baseball and the Arts – Pete Mandik/Josh Weisberg: Type-Q Materialism.