Burge on De Re Representation.pdf

The entry discusses all of Tyler Burge's work from a relatively high level of abstraction.

Philosophical Studies, 2002

Burge’s thesis is the thesis that certain second-order self-ascriptions are self-verifying in virtue of their self-referential form. The thesis has recently come under attack on the grounds that it does not yield a theory of self-knowledge consistent with semantic externalism, and also on the grounds that it is false. In this paper I defend Burge’s thesis against both charges, in particular against the arguments of Bernecker, Gallois and Goldberg. The alleged counterexamples they provide are merely apparent counterexamples, and the thesis is adequate to its proper task. To think otherwise is simply to misunderstand the thesis.

2003

I would like to begin by thanking Ron Chrisley for his interesting and detailed commentary. 1 There is much I find to agree with; indeed, it seems to me that his essay can largely be read, not as a criticism of the perspective offered in my own article, 2 but rather as a useful and largely complementary alternate view. I am especially grateful for the insights expressed in the last section of the paper, to wit:

Aperture Magazine, 2016

2013

Lecture Notes in Mathematics, 1980

American Mathematical Monthly, 1985

2016

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