Would you have had the courage to open your door to shelter people running through the streets of Paris during the recent terrorist attacks in that city? The brave souls who did exactly that did not ...

The paper discusses an objection, put forward by—among others—John McDowell, to Kripke's Wittgenstein's non-factualist and relativist view of semantic discourse. The objection goes roughly as follows: ...

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.” George Carlin Source: Dustbin Baby/Wikipedia Commons It’s all too easy to miss the intimate connection between cynicism and idealism. And ...