Reply to Alex Davies

Davies casts the idea of occasion-sensitivity in a different form than any I have given it. He offers a new and original perspective on the phenomena. It helps in making issues clear, especially at points where my own ways of putting things may or may not have succeeded in this. And it helps him to be able to offer new and original arguments pertaining to basic points. What I have to say here will consist largely in pointing to some of the most important points in this, and also to one point at which we may disagree slightly. (It will be a disagreement something like my disagreement with Hansen, insofar as I do disagree with him. The issue is, again, the autonomy of philosophy—something I am very concerned to defend.)...