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Many if not all Analytic Philosophers in the first seventy years or so of Analytic Philosophy thought that enquiry into concepts had a significant place in philosophy. This is not a view shared by most contemporary Analytic Philosophers. One reason for this change in attitude is…

A propositional attitude (PA) is a belief, desire, fear, etc., that x is the case. This dissertation addresses the question of the semantic content of a specific kind of PA-instance: an instance of a belief of the form all Fs are Gs. The belief that all bachelors are sports fans…

Because our phenomenological experience of the world is fundamentally a conceptual one, I posit a pluralistic view of concepts that attempts to account for their fluidity, flexibility and productivity. I claim that what appear to be discrete concepts are really instantial intera…