“I would say I was a philosophical boy. Thoughts about 'identical stones' are the earliest philosophical thoughts I remember. But when I was a teenager I also thought about the more typical philosophical problems teenagers think about: the existence of god, the objectivity of morality, whether one can know that the external world exists.” ThinkingKnowsWorldProblemRememberExistenceBoysMoralityStonesPhilosophicalTeenagerTypicalIdenticalObjectivityExistence Of God Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“Those who take knowledge to be a whole zoo of sub-disciplines will react to my giving metaphysics a privileged position in that zoo or to my thinking of knowledge as a tree, with more and less fundamental parts.” ThinkingGivingWholeTreePositionDisciplineFundamentalsMetaphysicsPrivilegedZoos Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“Those who think that metaphysics is just misunderstood grammar will react to my giving metaphysics some place or another in the system of knowledge.” ThinkingGivingMetaphysicsGrammarMisunderstood Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“I think there is a metaphysical problem of the relation between mind and body. Thinking that there is no metaphysical dimension to the problem is an error.” ThinkingMindProblemBodyRelationErrorsDimensionsMetaphysicalMind And Body Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
“The huge majority of philosophers seem to think that including impure properties in the range of the quantifiers of the principle would make the principle trivial. I have argued that it does not.” ThinkingDoeSeemsPrinciplesHugeMajorityPropertyIncludingPhilosopherRange Author:Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra
