Liberal Thinking

Turri, J. (2013). Liberal thinking. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 91(3), 515–533.

When you think about a particular object, what makes your thought about that object? Roderick Chisholm, Ernest Sosa and Michael McKinsey have defended “latitudinarian,” “descriptivist” or what I call “liberal” answers to that question. I carefully consider the motivation for these liberal views and show how it extends in unanticipated ways to motivate views that are considerably more liberal.