Olga RAMÍREZ CALLE

PROVIDING STABILITY TO OUR WORLD. IDENTITY AND TRANSFERENCE: GEACH AND QUINE (pages 37-56)

Olga RAMÍREZ ABSTRACT: The problem of identity is central to epistemic transference. However, relative identity appears to be the only way to work out an epistemic useful notion of identity. Relative identity, on its part, is either parasitic on strict identity or not identity at all. If, on the contrary, we ought for a strict concept of identity capable of …

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NUMBERS, EMPIRICISM AND THE A PRIORI (pages 149-177)

Olga RAMÍREZ CALLE ABSTRACT: The present paper deals with the ontological status of numbers and considers Frege´s proposal in Grundlagen upon the background of the Post-Kantian semantic turn in analytical philosophy. Through a more systematic study of his philosophical premises, it comes to unearth a first level paradox that would unset earlier still than it was exposed by Russell. It …

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TRACING THE TERRITORY: A UNITARY FOUNDATIONALIST ACCOUNT (pages 71-95)

Olga RAMÍREZ CALLE ABSTRACT: The paper offers an integrative interpretation of the different lines of thought Wittgenstein was inspecting in On Certainty and what he might have been looking for through them. It suggests that we may have been focusing our attention too strongly in the wrong place and comes to a new conclusion about where the real import of these …

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