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<span lang="EN-CA" class="">Cheryl Misak, "Ryle’s Debt: Peirce, Ramsey, and MacDonald on Hypotheses and Laws</span>”<o:p class=""></o:p></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" class="">Philosophy Seminar Room, The University of Sydney, Friday, Dec 9, 3:30–5PM<o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" class="">Simulcast via Zoom: <font color="#0000ff" class=""><a href="https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89125624489" class="">https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/89125624489</a></font><o:p class=""></o:p></span></div>
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<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
strong today.</span></div>
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