Non-Existing Things: An Introduction to Fictional Characters Either fictional characters exist or they don’t. When speaking about Raskolnikov, land surveyor K., or Batman, it might appear that we make statements about actual people, especially to any eavesdroppers who aren’t aware that we’re speaking about fictional characters. “Honey, I overheard someone talking about an Continue Reading …
Fodor, Darwin, and the Philosophy of Science
I had been looking forward to Jerry Fodor's What Darwin Got Wrong (co-authored with Massimo Piattelli-Palmarini), not because I have anything against Darwin but because Fodor is a superb writer, the well-respected cognitive scientist who "laid the groundwork for the modularity of mind and language of thought hypotheses," and a worthy opponent of the idiocy of evolutionary Continue Reading …