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    Indispensability and explanation: an overview and introduction.Daniele Molinini, Fabrice Pataut & Andrea Sereni - 2016 - Synthese 193 (2):317-332.
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    Truth, Objects, Infinity: New Perspectives on the Philosophy of Paul Benacerraf.Fabrice Pataut (ed.) - 2016 - Cham: Springer Verlag.
    This volume features essays about and by Paul Benacerraf, whose ideas have circulated in the philosophical community since the early nineteen sixties, shaping key areas in the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of language, the philosophy of logic, and epistemology. The book started as a worskhop held in Paris at the Collège de France in May 2012 with the participation of Paul Benacerraf. The introduction addresses the methodological point of the legitimate use of so-called “Princess Margaret Premises” in drawing philosophical (...)
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  3. Indispensabilité et réalisme restreint : réponse à Nicolas Pain.Fabrice Pataut - 2012 - RÉPHA, revue étudiante de philosophie analytique 6:33-38.
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    Comments on “Parsimony and inference to the best mathematical explanation”.Fabrice Pataut - 2016 - Synthese 193 (2):351-363.
    The author of “Parsimony and inference to the best mathematical explanation” argues for platonism by way of an enhanced indispensability argument based on an inference to yet better mathematical optimization explanations in the natural sciences. Since such explanations yield beneficial trade-offs between stronger mathematical existential claims and fewer concrete ontological commitments than those involved in merely good mathematical explanations, one must countenance the mathematical objects that play a theoretical role in them via an application of the relevant mathematical results. The (...)
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  5. Réalisme, sens commun et langage ordinaire.Fabrice Pataut - 2011 - In Sandra Laugier & Christophe Al-Saleh (eds.), J.L. Austin et la philosophie du langage ordinaire. Hildesheim: G. Olms.
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    Truth and Modalities (II).Fabrice Pataut - 2023 - Balkan Journal of Philosophy 15 (2):95-100.
    I contrast two construals of the thesis that truth is independent of verifiability in principle: a modal one and a non modal one. I argue in favor of the modal construal and then, on that basis, that independence holds across the board, i.e., even for statements that are verifiable by us relative to familiar, customary, non-skeptical standards.
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  7. Critical studies / book reviews.Fabrice Pataut - 2004 - Philosophia Mathematica 12 (3):268-278.
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    Questions to Danielle Macbeth on Frege's Logical Notation and Related Topics.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    Danielle Macbeth's purpose in Macbeth 2005 is threefold. Her monograph proposes "to provide a logical justification for all aspects of Frege's peculiar notation, to motivate and explain the developments in Frege's views over the course of his intellectual life, and to explicate his most developed, critically reflective conception of his Begriffschrift, his formula language of pure thought" (p. vii). I shall focus here on a few selected aspects of the first and third points and leave on the side the discussion (...)
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    Anti‐Realism about the Past.Fabrice Pataut - 2008 - In Aviezer Tucker (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 190–198.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Realism vs. Anti‐realism in the Semantics of Mathematical Language Anti‐realism about the Empirical Realm and, in Particular, about the Past Historical Significance and Historical Insignificance Generality and Holistic Explanations The Objectivity of Historiography Conclusion Bibliography Further Reading.
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  10. Jazyk, myšlení, logika a dějiny analytické filosofie z perspektivy antirealismu.Michael Dummett & Fabrice Pataut - 1999 - Filosoficky Casopis 47:589-620.
    [An Anti-Realist Perspective on Language, Thought, Logic and the History of Analytic Philosophy. .].
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    An Anti-Realist Perspective on Language, Thought, Logic and the History of Analytic Philosophy: An Interview with Michael Dummett.Fabrice Pataut - 1996 - Philosophical Investigations 19 (1):1-33.
    The interview took place in Oxford on 10 September 1992. While working from the tape on the text of the interview, I decided to gather references to books and articles in footnotes so that the reader may have a sense of the flow of the conversation. I then divided the text into sections, according to the topics which were discussed. Some material has been edited from the original transcript.
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    An Anti-Realist Perspective on Language, Thought and Logic.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    Philosophia (ISSN: 1105-2120) (Abstract), tome 30, 2000, p. 203-205.
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    Antirealism and the self-ascription of attitudes.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    In a nutshell, semantic antirealism is the doctrine that if a statement is true, then it must be possible, at least in principle, to determine that it is true. Consider the particular case of self-ascriptions of attitudes such as beliefs, desires and intentions, i.e. statements of the form "I φ [that] p", where φ ranges over propositional attitude verbs and p provides the content of whatever is φd by the self-ascriber. Should we be semantic antirealists about these when the putative (...)
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    Anti-Realism, History and the Past.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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    Abstract of "Antirealism, History and the Past".Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    According to the antirealist view of history, history is something historians construct in the present. Although the warrants they may gather in favour of past events do not form a coherent class, such warrants constitute the assertibility conditions of our statements about the past. They are by nature partial, gradual and defeasible. The antirealist is then faced with two problems. One is to account for a notion of historical significance, either in terms of causal links, broad patterns, or justified historiographic (...)
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    Abstract of "An Anti-Realist Perspective on Language, Thought, Logic and the History of Analytic Philosophy".Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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    Antirealism, Strict Finitism and Structural Rules.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    According to semantic antirealism, intuitionistic logic satisfies the requirement that truth should be constrained by provability in principle. Some philosophers have argued that semantic antirealism must be committed to effective provability and that the commitment leads to a stronger kind of logical revisionism exemplified by substructural logics. I shall take into account two different kinds of reply. The first is concerned with meaning per se and grasp or fixing of meaning. It rests on the idea that if we have a (...)
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    Antirealism, Truth and Epistemic Modalities.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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  19. Analyomen 2, Volume III: Philosophy of Mind, Practical Philosophy, Miscellanea.Fabrice Pataut - 1997 - Hawthorne: De Gruyter.
     
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  20. Critical Review of'Pourquoi les mathématiques sont-elles difficiles' by Lény Oumraou.Fabrice Pataut - forthcoming - Theoria.
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    Direct vs. indirect consequences of empirical verifications.Fabrice Pataut - 2002 - Topoi 21 (1-2):93-98.
    Professor Prawitz has made four claims in his talk. The first claim is that one should be able to generalize the intuitionistic theory of meaning already available for mathematical discourse to empirical discourse. Since each claim constitutes a step in an argument of a general form in favour of some new kind of antirealistically inclined theory of meaning (with a final pessimistic overtone), I shall go over each claim one by one, check whether the argument which links them in the (...)
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    Empiricism, Rational Belief and Objectivity.Fabrice Pataut - 2010 - Philosophy of Science.
    There are several ways of conceiving objectivity -- scientific objectivity in particular -- and, accordingly, several ways of defending or attacking particular construals of it. According to one conception sometimes labelled "realism", objectivity in science is a semantic, modal and metaphysical notion: a scientific theory is objective insofar as it tells the truth about the way the world is independently of its epistemic accessibility to us. So, for instance, the Newtonian theory of gravition is objective insofar as it tells the (...)
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    Fictionalism 2021 Workshop.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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    Holisme, anatomicité et hiérarchie.Fabrice Pataut - 2008 - Archives de Philosophie 71 (4):599-607.
    Selon le holisme sémantique, les propriétés sémantiques sont par nature anatomiques, c’est-à-dire intrinsèquement collectives. Selon le holisme de l’interprétation, la signification ou le contenu sont attribués collectivement. La thèse de constitution holistique de la signification peut être raisonnablement défendue à l’aide d’une contrainte de molécularité, qui introduit une hiérarchie dans la complexité logique des phrases, et un ordre ou une articulation dans le langage, en faisant droit à une condition finitaire d’anatomicité.According to semantic holism, semantic properties are anatomic by nature, (...)
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  25. Holism of content ascription and holism of belief content.Fabrice Pataut - 1997 - In Analyomen 2, Volume III: Philosophy of Mind, Practical Philosophy, Miscellanea. Hawthorne: De Gruyter.
     
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    Interpretation and the Logical Constants.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    May the theory of radical interpretation developed by Donald Davidson on the basis of Quine's arguments for the indeterminacy of translation help fix the meaning of the logical constants? In particular, may the theory exclude ways of conferring meaning on the constants which, although developed within the Davidsonian framework, would lead to unexpected results? Could an interpreter fix the meaning of the constants in a non classical way, although still in accordance with the guiding principles of the interpretative strategy? Or, (...)
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    Incompleteness, constructivism and truth.Fabrice Pataut - 1998 - Logic and Logical Philosophy 6:63.
    Although G¨odel proved the first incompleteness theorem by intuitionistically respectable means, G¨odel’s formula, true although undecidable,seems to offer a counter-example to the general constructivist or anti-realistclaim that truth may not transcend recognizability in principle. It is arguedhere that our understanding of the formula consists in a knowledge of itstruth-conditions, that it is true in a minimal sense and, finally, that it is recognized as such given the consistencyand ω-consistency of P. The philosophical lesson to be drawn from G¨odel’sproof is that (...)
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    Language, Normativity and Emotion.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    Emotions are part of our culture ; particular emotions like resentment andguilt are part of specific cultural heritages. On the other hand, moral judgementsand imperatives have the appearance of objectivity. There lies - or so it seems -a conflict, even a contradiction. Statements like "Slavery is unjust" may beasserted, agreements may be reached concerning what they claim or express,and they may occur as antecedents in conditionals such as "If slavery is unjust,then it must be abolished". When it is claimed that (...)
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    Logical Revisionism: Logical Rules vs. Structural Rules.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    As far as logic is concerned, the conclusion of Michael Dummett's manifestability argument is that intuitionistic logic, as first developed by Heyting, satisfies the semantic requirements of antirealism. The argument may be roughly sketched as follows: since we cannot manifest a grasp of possibly justification-transcendent truth conditions, we must countenance conditions which are such that, at least in principle and by the very nature of the case, we are able to recognize that they are satisfied whenever they are. Intuitionistic logic (...)
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  30. Mathematical Objects and Mathematical Knowledge.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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    Naturalizing Ethics and Naturalizing Mathematics.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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    IX. Naturalizing mathematics and naturalizing ethics.Fabrice Pataut - 2011 - In Petrov V. (ed.), Ontological Landscapes: Recent Thought on Conceptual Interfaces between Science and Philosophy. Ontos. pp. 183.
    I offer several reasons for rejecting naturalism as a philosophical viewpoint or program envisaged for two paradigm cases: the case of mathematics and the case of ethics. Semantical, epistemological and metaphysical similarities between the two are investigated and assessed. I then offer a sketch of a different way of understanding the nature of mathematical difficulties and that of ethical puzzles.
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  33. On Danielle Macbeth's "Frege's Logic".Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    Danielle Macbeth's purpose in Macbeth 2005 is threefold. Her monograph proposes "to provide a logical justification for all aspects of Frege's peculiar notation, to motivate and explain the developments in Frege's views over the course of his intellectual life, and to explicate his most developed, critically reflective conception of his Begriffschrift, his formula language of pure thought". I shall focus here on a few selected aspects of the first and third points and leave on the side the discussion of the (...)
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    (1 other version)Platonism And Mathematical Explanations.Fabrice Pataut - 2020 - Balkan Journal of Philosophy 12 (2):63-74.
    Ontological parsimony requires that if we can dispense with A when best explaining B, or when deducing a nominalistically statable conclusion B from nominalistically statable premises, we must indeed dispense with A. When A is a mathematical theory and it has been established that its conservativeness undermines the platonistic force of mathematical derivations (Field), or that a nonnumerical formulation of some explanans may be obtained so that the platonistic force of the best numerical-based account of the explanandum is also undermined (...)
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  35. Realism, Decidability and the Past.Fabrice Pataut - 1996 - Dissertation, University of Southern California
    Realism is the claim that truth may transcend all possible verification. The familiar Dummettian argument against that modal claim is that there is no way to manifest an understanding of it in actual linguistic practice. The Dummettian anti-realist's provisional conclusion is that the modal claim must be false. ;The attack on truth-conditional semantics and on the principle of bivalence are familiar ingredients of the anti-realist negative programme. I agree that, whether mathematical formulae or ordinary sentences in the past tense are (...)
     
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    Realism, Modality and Truths about the Past.Fabrice Pataut - 1998 - The Paideia Archive: Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 32:97-106.
    Anti-realists about the past claim that no one has yet manifested a knowledge of the truth of tensed instances of the realist schema '‡,' instances such as '‡. It is true that we cannot decide specific instances of the realist schema and that, consequently, neither our understanding of these instances, nor our knowledge of their truth may be constituted by the recognitional and executive capacities which, according to Michael Dummett's antirealism, constitute grasp of meaning. Although we cannot decide these issues, (...)
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  37. Remarks on Mark Colyvan on Mathematical Explanation.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
  38. Short introduction to the workshop.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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    Truth and Modalities.Fabrice Pataut - 2022 - Balkan Journal of Philosophy 14 (2):103-108.
    I contrast two construals of the thesis that truth is independent of verifiability in principle: a modal one and a non modal one. I argue in favor of the modal construal and then, on that basis, that independence holds across the board, i.e., even for statements that are verifiable by us relative to familiar, customary, non-skeptical standards.
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    Truth meaning, modalities and ethics (a second interview with Michael dummett).Fabrice Pataut - 2002 - Philosophical Investigations 25 (3):225–271.
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    Un entretien avec Michael Dummett.Fabrice Pataut - 1997 - Quest - and African Journal of Philosophy 11 (1-2):100-149.
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    Uma Perspectiva Anti-Realista Sobre a Linguagem, o Pensamento, a Lógica E A História da Filosofia Analítica: Uma Entrevista com Michael Dummett.Fabrice Pataut - 1997 - Disputatio (3):1-35.
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    Una perspectiva anti-realista sobre: lenguaje, pensamiento, lógica e historia de la filosofía analítica.Fabrice Pataut & Adriana Gonzalo de Aguirre - 2001 - Tópicos 8:129-162.
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    Verifiability, Scientific Realism and Constructive Empiricism.Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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  45. L. Elwonger (U. of Nebraska-Lincoln): "Physical Constants and Essentialist Arguments for Necessitarianism" - Commentator : B. Rettler (U. of Notre-Dame), plus "Comments on Elwonger and Rettler" by Fabrice Pataut. [REVIEW]Fabrice Pataut - unknown
    Many philosophers hold that physical laws have a unique modal status known as nomic necessity which is weaker than metaphysical necessity. This orthodox view has come into question in the past few decades. In particular, the metaphysical view known as essentialism has provided an argument that the laws of nature are necessary in the strongest possible sense. It seems obvious to many that at least some essentialist arguments in favor of the necessity of scientific claims are going to be sound. (...)
     
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    Criticial Comments on "Social Epistemology and Embodied Cognition" by P. S. Williams (U. of Warwick) ; Critical Comments on "Cosmology and the End of Weberian Science" by G. Guralp (Johns Hopkins University). [REVIEW]Fabrice Pataut - unknown
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    Daniel Laurier, dir., Essais sur le sens et la réalité, Montréal-Paris, Bellarmin-Vrin, « Collection Analytique - 2 », 1991, 239 p.Daniel Laurier, dir., Essais sur le sens et la réalité, Montréal-Paris, Bellarmin-Vrin, « Collection Analytique - 2 », 1991, 239 p. [REVIEW]Fabrice Pataut - 1995 - Philosophiques 22 (2):523-532.
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    Introduction à la philosophie du langage Daniel Laurier Collection «Philosophie et langage» Liège, Pierre Mardaga, 1993, 322 p. [REVIEW]Fabrice Pataut - 1995 - Dialogue 34 (2):402-.
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    Pourquoi les mathématiques sont-elles difficiles?LÉNY OUMRAOU Paris: Vuibert, « Philosophie des sciences » series, 2009; 216 pp.; €24.70. [REVIEW]Fabrice Pataut - 2015 - Dialogue 54 (2):389-392.
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    Review of Anat Matar, Modernism and the Language of Philosophy[REVIEW]Fabrice Pataut - 2006 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006 (11):En ligne.
    Modernism, in the book under review, is characterized as the belief that "there can be no philosophical language; that the kind of truth sub specie aeterni that was sought by philosophers is either meaningless or more appropriately expressed by the arts -- especially by literature and poetry" (p. xiii). The author wishes to show that this thesis rests upon unquestioned dogmas, presuppositions or presumptions "regarding the distinction between representation and presentation," which should be rejected (p. 9). She proposes to criticize (...)
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