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I have to admit to being rather puzzled by Pinder's article, on two fronts. Firstly it is not immediately obvious to me how refuting Putnam's argument that "meanings aren't in the head" is going to undermine natural kinds essentialism. I have tended to understand Putnam as *assuming* natur...

Ongley seems to me to make the point that Keynes would have agreed with, and miss the mark where he disagrees with Keynes. As Ongley points out, Keynes held that Russell was well aware of the irrationality of human behaviour, but that he (Russell) simultaneously believed that we can remedy human fai...