November 1, 2026 at 3:27 PM
🌟 Philosophy Colloquium!
Thomas Schindler (University of Amsterdam) presents 'Deflationism: From Truth to Ontology'
📅 Tuesday 13th October
⏰️ 3:40pm
📍 CEU @weareceu.bsky.social
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Thomas Schindler (University of Amsterdam) presents 'Deflationism: From Truth to Ontology'
📅 Tuesday 13th October
⏰️ 3:40pm
📍 CEU @weareceu.bsky.social
Info/registration for non-CEU members: buff.ly/Q1Rrg87
#philsky #philevent #philsophy #deflationism #truth #ontology
October 8, 2026 at 7:30 AM
🌟 Philosophy Colloquium!
Thomas Schindler (University of Amsterdam) presents 'Deflationism: From Truth to Ontology'
📅 Tuesday 13th October
⏰️ 3:40pm
📍 CEU @weareceu.bsky.social
Info/registration for non-CEU members: buff.ly/Q1Rrg87
#philsky #philevent #philsophy #deflationism #truth #ontology
Thomas Schindler (University of Amsterdam) presents 'Deflationism: From Truth to Ontology'
📅 Tuesday 13th October
⏰️ 3:40pm
📍 CEU @weareceu.bsky.social
Info/registration for non-CEU members: buff.ly/Q1Rrg87
#philsky #philevent #philsophy #deflationism #truth #ontology
It was a pleasure to contribute to this symposium in Mind & Language on Frances Egan's wonderful book, Deflating mental representation (MIT, 2025). My paper on "Deflationism, realism and fictionalism" is Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila... @francesegan.bsky.social @kenaizawa.bsky.social #philsky
Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism
Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation. Deflationism is a form of selective realism: It is realist about vehicles of menta....
dx.doi.org
September 8, 2026 at 11:56 AM
It was a pleasure to contribute to this symposium in Mind & Language on Frances Egan's wonderful book, Deflating mental representation (MIT, 2025). My paper on "Deflationism, realism and fictionalism" is Open Access: dx.doi.org/10.1111/mila... @francesegan.bsky.social @kenaizawa.bsky.social #philsky
7 September 2026
Adam Toon: Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation....
www.philosophicalprogress.org
Adam Toon: Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation....
www.philosophicalprogress.org
7 September 2026
Adam Toon: Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation. Deflationism is a form of selective realism: It is realist about vehicles of mental representation, but not contents. In this...
www.philosophicalprogress.org
September 7, 2026 at 11:00 PM
7 September 2026
Adam Toon: Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation....
www.philosophicalprogress.org
Adam Toon: Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation....
www.philosophicalprogress.org
Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism
Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation. Deflationism is a form of selective realism: It is realist...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation. Deflationism is a form of selective realism: It is realist...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism
Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation. Deflationism is a form of selective realism: It is realist about vehicles of mental representation, but not contents. In this commentary, I will argue that deflationism is...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Deflationism, realism, and fictionalism
Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation. Deflationism is a form of selective realism: It is realist...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Frances Egan's Deflating mental representation gives a forceful defence of deflationism about mental representation. Deflationism is a form of selective realism: It is realist...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Restricted deflationism: Why the deflationist project needs at least a little bit of intentionality
Frances Egan argues for a deflationist view of intentionality, on which intentionality is merely part of a pragmatically motivated explanatory “gloss” on theories of mind and...
Frances Egan argues for a deflationist view of intentionality, on which intentionality is merely part of a pragmatically motivated explanatory “gloss” on theories of mind and...
Restricted deflationism: Why the deflationist project needs at least a little bit of intentionality
Frances Egan argues for a deflationist view of intentionality, on which intentionality is merely part of a pragmatically motivated explanatory “gloss” on theories of mind and behavior. While sympathetic to the project, I worry that the view is inadvertently committed to genuine intentionality:...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 7, 2026 at 8:00 AM
Restricted deflationism: Why the deflationist project needs at least a little bit of intentionality
Frances Egan argues for a deflationist view of intentionality, on which intentionality is merely part of a pragmatically motivated explanatory “gloss” on theories of mind and...
Frances Egan argues for a deflationist view of intentionality, on which intentionality is merely part of a pragmatically motivated explanatory “gloss” on theories of mind and...
'truth is fake and deflationism is our lord and master.' is true iff truth is fake and deflationism is our lord and master.
August 30, 2026 at 7:24 PM
'truth is fake and deflationism is our lord and master.' is true iff truth is fake and deflationism is our lord and master.
Trick question; truth is fake and deflationism is our lord and master.
August 30, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Trick question; truth is fake and deflationism is our lord and master.
or, on the flip side, if deflationism *is* just a position about truth then it seems like you could be a deflationist *and* accept p ⇔ φ(p) for whatever φ the substantive theorists propose: so you could be a deflationist pragmatist, deflationist coherence theorist, etc.
August 30, 2026 at 7:28 PM
or, on the flip side, if deflationism *is* just a position about truth then it seems like you could be a deflationist *and* accept p ⇔ φ(p) for whatever φ the substantive theorists propose: so you could be a deflationist pragmatist, deflationist coherence theorist, etc.
Not to point to my other post but I think this is what Rorty is doing - deflationism in the sense that the word "true" is pulling no work ('p' is true iff p) but advocating a pragmatist theory on epistemic grounds.
August 30, 2026 at 7:33 PM
Not to point to my other post but I think this is what Rorty is doing - deflationism in the sense that the word "true" is pulling no work ('p' is true iff p) but advocating a pragmatist theory on epistemic grounds.
How can I be sure I'm in good medical hands if I don't even know her views on deflationism or mereology!?
July 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
How can I be sure I'm in good medical hands if I don't even know her views on deflationism or mereology!?
That person has really got my goat with their flippant deflationism.
October 17, 2025 at 5:40 PM
That person has really got my goat with their flippant deflationism.
Where I develop a new kind of deflationism about causal metaphysics: dlvr.it/Sy0wK8
Quiet Causation and its Many Uses in Science - PhilSci-Archive
dlvr.it
October 27, 2023 at 10:33 PM
Where I develop a new kind of deflationism about causal metaphysics: dlvr.it/Sy0wK8
The constant deflationism used by the writer is exactly what tRump depends on, reductio to use his own verbage.
March 31, 2024 at 6:47 PM
The constant deflationism used by the writer is exactly what tRump depends on, reductio to use his own verbage.
There are those who wish to speed this process along, through a process of deflationism
April 7, 2026 at 10:22 PM
There are those who wish to speed this process along, through a process of deflationism
Fantastic paper! I still haven’t encountered a Geoff Lee paper I didn’t like. Regarding where I stand relative to Leeism: see his footnote 2 on how my deflationism is separate from his DP.
April 9, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Fantastic paper! I still haven’t encountered a Geoff Lee paper I didn’t like. Regarding where I stand relative to Leeism: see his footnote 2 on how my deflationism is separate from his DP.
"By another binary metric, deflationism versus alarmism, I suppose this would make me relatively open to alarmism...
"Alarmists often come off as wild-eyed and silly; deflationists... get to seem coolheaded and dignified."
"When does a commitment to deflationism risk turning into denialism?" 12/
"Alarmists often come off as wild-eyed and silly; deflationists... get to seem coolheaded and dignified."
"When does a commitment to deflationism risk turning into denialism?" 12/
March 29, 2024 at 11:05 AM
"By another binary metric, deflationism versus alarmism, I suppose this would make me relatively open to alarmism...
"Alarmists often come off as wild-eyed and silly; deflationists... get to seem coolheaded and dignified."
"When does a commitment to deflationism risk turning into denialism?" 12/
"Alarmists often come off as wild-eyed and silly; deflationists... get to seem coolheaded and dignified."
"When does a commitment to deflationism risk turning into denialism?" 12/
"Steinmetz-Jenkins angles his volume so that it inclines away from alarmism and toward what can be called deflationism.... (If the book were a dinner party, Moyn would be its middler, with the rest of the table nodding to or recoiling from his provocations.)" 7/
March 29, 2024 at 10:35 AM
"Steinmetz-Jenkins angles his volume so that it inclines away from alarmism and toward what can be called deflationism.... (If the book were a dinner party, Moyn would be its middler, with the rest of the table nodding to or recoiling from his provocations.)" 7/
Grzankowski, Alex ; Keeling, Geoff ; Shevlin, Henry & Street, Winnie: Deflating Deflationism: A Critical Perspective on Debunking Arguments Against LLM Mentality Many people feel compelled to i...
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Alex Grzankowski, Geoff Keeling, Henry Shevlin & Winnie Street, Deflating Deflationism: A Critical Perspective on Debunking Arguments Against LLM Mentality - PhilArchive
Many people feel compelled to interpret, describe, and respond to Large Language Models (LLMs) as if they possess inner mental lives sim- ilar to our own. Responses to this phenomenon have ...
philarchive.org
June 17, 2025 at 4:16 PM
4) Knowledge-Qua in Groups (Ergo). In which Jesper develops an account of knowledge-qua occupancy role in a social network, and proposes that this may help deflationists about group knowledge respond to a particular objection to their view.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
Knowledge-Qua in Groups
Deflationism about group knowledge is the view that a group has knowledge if and only if most of its members have that knowledge. The case against deflationism has revolved around epistemic…
journals.publishing.umich.edu
October 17, 2025 at 10:01 AM
4) Knowledge-Qua in Groups (Ergo). In which Jesper develops an account of knowledge-qua occupancy role in a social network, and proposes that this may help deflationists about group knowledge respond to a particular objection to their view.
journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
journals.publishing.umich.edu/ergo/article...
So, are we just suppposed to buy deflationism about true now? Cuz I'm about to... 😶
September 22, 2023 at 1:34 PM
So, are we just suppposed to buy deflationism about true now? Cuz I'm about to... 😶
A student's paper:
Deflationism Theory of Truth | Ambrose Resa pnwhistoryphilosophy.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/d...
Deflationism Theory of Truth | Ambrose Resa pnwhistoryphilosophy.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/d...
Deflationism Theory of Truth | Ambrose Resa
Deflationism is a theory for the common man. It’s principle that P is true if and only if P is self-evident to most people. The idea of truth is not usually wrestled with, and even if it is, I beli…
pnwhistoryphilosophy.wordpress.com
January 22, 2025 at 5:18 PM
A student's paper:
Deflationism Theory of Truth | Ambrose Resa pnwhistoryphilosophy.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/d...
Deflationism Theory of Truth | Ambrose Resa pnwhistoryphilosophy.wordpress.com/2025/01/21/d...
Deflationary Truth Explained - Simon Blackburn and Alex O Connor
#deflationism #nazis #realism #truth
#deflationism #nazis #realism #truth
August 5, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Deflationary Truth Explained - Simon Blackburn and Alex O Connor
#deflationism #nazis #realism #truth
#deflationism #nazis #realism #truth
Deflating the Determination Argument
Jared Henderson, Deflating the Determination Argument - PhilArchive
This article argues for the compatibility of deflationism and truth-conditional semantic theories. I begin by focusing on an argument due to Dorit Bar-On, Claire Horisk, and William Lycan for incompat...
philarchive.org
December 29, 2024 at 1:39 AM
Deflating the Determination Argument