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Bob Fischer (philosopher)

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Bob Fischer is an American philosopher who specializes in epistemology (especially modal epistemology) and ethics (especially animal ethics). He is a Professor of Philosophy at Texas State University and a Senior Research Manager at Rethink Priorities. His books include Modal Justification via Theories (in which he defends his account of "Theory-Based Epistemology of Modality"), The Ethics of Eating Animals, and Weighing Animal Welfare.

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  1. The histories of philosophy and of ethics give the theoretical side. In addition to those previously mentioned the works of Hoeffding, Falckenberg, and Fischer may be named.

    John Dewey, Ethics

    Close in meaning to Bob Fischer; the term itself is not named.

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  2. It is out of the question to set forth in this place in detail the contrast between transcendental epistemology and an experimental theory of knowledge. It may assist the understanding of the latter, however, if I point out, baldly and briefly, how, _out of the distinctively empirical situation_, there arise those assumptions which make knowledge a mystery, and hence a topic for a peculiar branch of philosophizing.

    John Dewey, The Influence of Darwin on Philosophy, and other essays in contemporary thought

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  3. Moreover, we do not expect them to be so "conscious," and are prepared to admit that their instincts prompt useful actions without any prevision of the ends which they achieve. For all these reasons, there is much in the analysis of mind which is more easily discovered by the study of animals than by the observation of human beings.

    Bertrand Russell, The Analysis of Mind

    Close in meaning to Bob Fischer; the term itself is not named.

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Part of Pragmatism.

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