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<div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><font class="">Cheryl Misak, "Ryle’s Debt: Peirce, Ramsey, and MacDonald on Hypotheses and Laws</font></span></span>”</div>
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<div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-CA" class=""><span class="" style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67);">University of Sydney Philosophy Seminar Series</span><br class="">
<div class="">Philosophy Seminar Room, The University of Sydney, Friday, Dec 9, 3:30–5PM</div>
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<p class="" style="caret-color: rgb(60, 64, 67);">Simulcast via Zoom: <a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89125624489" class="">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89125624489</a></p>
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<div style="margin: 0cm;" class=""><span lang="EN-CA" class="">It is often said that Ryle’s 1949 <i class="">The Concept of Mind</i> was heavily influenced by Wittgenstein. But I argue that Ryle helped himself to Margaret MacDonald’s 1937 reading of Ramsey’s
idea that laws are inference tickets or rules with which we meet the future. He also helped himself to MacDonald’s distinction between<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">knowing how</i><span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span>and<span class="xapple-converted-space"> </span><i class="">knowing
that</i>, which she found in Peirce. Not only will this argument bring the superb analytic philosopher Margaret MacDonald back into the light, where she belongs, but it will lay out the insights of pragmatism about generalizations and laws, which rightly remain
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