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David Chalmers on “Merely Verbal” Disputes

Posted by Mark Linsenmayer in Other (i.e. Lesser) Podcasts on May 25, 2010

Here’s a talk by philosopher David Chalmers presenting a general framework to determine whether a dispute is “merely verbal.” This process also helps to unearth core disagreements and concepts, e.g. commitments by one party to the existence of normativity, consciousness, truth, or other fundamentals that the other side may wish to simply deny.

I found this helpful both for the pragmatism discussion (he even talks about William James a bit here) that I’m currently editing and on the philosophy of mind discussion (Chalmers is a significant voice in that area) that we’ll be having next.

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