Tag Archives: Roderick Chisholm

Arnold CUSMARIU ABSTRACT: The characterization problem of mathematical logic yields Chisholm’s “particularist” criterion, while the decision problem yields his “methodist” criterion. These connections have not been on anyone’s radar screen. To answer the “so what?” requirement in philosophy since Plato, which the criterion-problem literature has failed to do, the article states the problem in argument form and shows that it …

Howard SANKEY ABSTRACT: This paper explores a particularist element in the theory of method of Imre Lakatos, who appealed to the value-judgements of élite scientists in the appraisal of competing theories of method. The role played by such value-judgements is strongly reminiscent of the epistemological particularism of Roderick Chisholm. Despite the existence of a clear parallel between the particularist approaches …