Volume 40, Issue Supplement, 2015
Selected Papers from the XXIII World Congress of Philosophy
Ernest Sosa
Pages 309-314
On Metaphysical Analysis
What follows offers a solution for the problem of causal deviance in its three varieties. We consider Davidson on action, Grice on perception, and the account of knowledge as apt belief, as belief that gets it right through competence rather than luck. We take up the opposition between such traditional accounts and “disjunctivist” alternatives. And we explore how our take on the point and substance of metaphysical analysis bears on the problem and on competing reactions to it.