Given the source, and given the fact that, if, in fact, it is old
news, Google knows *only* that link about that incident. Possibly
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On Sun, May 25, 2014 at 11:27 AM, Obrst, Leo J. <lobrst@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yikes! I found this shocking. And it’s old news.
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> “Saul Kripke resigned yesterday from his position as Distinguished Professor
> of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center. While similar allegations have
> been circulating in unpublished form for years, a team of philosophers from
> Oxford University has just released a damning report claiming that they were
> systematically unable to reproduce the results of thought experiments
> reported by Kripke in his groundbreaking Naming and Necessity. The team,
> led by Timothy Williamson, first became suspicious of Naming and Necessity
> after preliminary results raised questions about related work by Hilary
> Putnam. While the group was initially unable to confirm that water is H2O
> on Twin Earth, the results turned out to be due to contaminated research
> materials—one of the researchers’ minds had been contaminated by Chomskyan
> internalist semantics.”
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>http://fauxphilnews.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/kripke-resigns-after-allegations-of-academic-fraud/
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