Philosophical Pattern-Matching
Richard Y Chappell
Philosophical Pattern-Matching
The struggle to replace philosophical stereotypes with substance
One of the hardest things in philosophy is to get readers to update their preconceptions about a view (especially if they are unsympathetic to begin with). Any academic will have horror stories about journal referees whose comments address a straw man while completely ignoring the section of your paper where you explicitly pre-empt their objection (or even assert the opposite of the claim that they...