The West Wing, a popular political drama, has given us some of the most memorable moments that define American idealism ...

“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.” George Carlin Source: Dustbin Baby/Wikipedia Commons It’s all too easy to miss the intimate connection between cynicism and idealism. And ...

The paper discusses an objection, put forward by—among others—John McDowell, to Kripke's Wittgenstein's non-factualist and relativist view of semantic discourse. The objection goes roughly as follows: ...