List of posts

These appear in ascending chronological order, so to see the latest, scroll to the bottom of the list.

- A Liar Paradox of Material Implication - posted 24 February 2011.




- Three True Semantic Externalisms - posted 22 May 2011.



- Mind Independence and Propositions - posted 27 July 2011.


- An Analysis of Davidson's Slingshot Argument - posted 21 September 2011.

- Deduction and the Necessary A Posteriori - posted 10 October 2011.

- A Plea for Conceptual Schemes - posted 25 October 2011.

- Twenty Remarks on Necessitarianism and its Negation - posted 24 November 2011.

- Against Quine's Argument in Sect. 31 of Word and Object - posted 17 December 2011.

- Structured Modal Operators - posted 17 January 2012.

- Identity Expressed with One-Place Predication - posted 1 March 2012.

- On Conceptually Progressive Propositions - posted 20 August 2012.

- On the Problems of Reference and Intentionality - posted 6 October 2012.

- On the Problems of Reference and Intentionality II - posted 9 December 2012.

- Notes on Identity (and the idea of a 'law of metaphysics' concerning it) - posted 2 January 2013.

- A Modification to Lewis's Theory of Counterfactuals - posted 6 February 2013.

- On the Truth-Functional Account of Indicative Conditionals - posted 12 March 2013.

- The Non-Indexical Core of Presentism is Monism - posted 20 April 2013.

- Blackburn's Interpretation of Wittgenstein as a Proto Quasi Realist - posted 15 May 2013.

- The Or-to-If Argument - posted 24 June 2013.

- A Problem for the Simple Theory of Counterfactuals - posted 31 July 2013.

- A Fallacy in Hofweber's Arguments in Ontology - posted 19 August 2013.

- The Truth-Tracking Account of Knowledge: Two New Counterexamples - posted 26 September 2013.

- Formal Logic Isn't a General Science of Validity - posted 22 October 2013.

- Names: Between Mill and Frege - posted 13 November 2013.

- Sidelle and the Contingency of Conventions: An Objection Regained - posted 20 December 2013.

- Propositions: A Neo-Wittgensteinian Approach - posted 7 January 2014.

- Kripke's Puzzle and Semantic Granularity - posted 3 March 2014.

- Empty Names and Negative Existentials - posted 20 March 2014.

- Facts: The Object-Property-Relation Model - posted 13 April 2014.

- Skepticism About Facts: The Case of Strawson - posted 6 May 2014.

- Quine on Facts: A Case-Study in Projective Fallacies - posted 20 May 2014.

- Worrying about Facts - posted 3 June 2014.

- Names, Meaning and the Articulation Assumption - posted 17 June 2014.

- Names and the Publicity of Meaning - posted 2 July 2014.

- Two Concepts of Metaphysical Modality - posted 2 August 2014.

- Granularity and Quine - posted 25 August 2014.

- Metaphysical Realism and Conceptual Relativity: An Application of Granularity - posted 8 September 2014.

- Modality and 'Epistemic' - posted 20 September 2014.

- Granularity and Relativism about Truth - posted 15 October 2014.

- Granularity and the Paradox of Analysis - posted 12 November 2014.

- On Negation and Necessities about Contingent Existents - posted 12 December 2014.

- On 'If you're a brain in a vat then you don't have hands' - posted 20 January 2015.

- De Re Modality and Quantifying In - posted 15 February 2015.

- On Kripke's Intuitive Anti-Quinean Defence of De Re Modality - posted 17 March 2015.

- Toward an Account of De Re Modal Ascriptions - posted 11 April 2015.

- An Interpretation of Quantified Modal Logic Formulae - posted 25 April 2015.

- Illusory Explanatory Benefits in Philosophy - posted 25 May 2015.

- On A Semantic Account of the A Priori - posted 14 June 2015.

- An Account of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction - posted 12 July 2015.

- The Principle of Compositionality and Semantic Granularity - posted 15 August 2015.

- Two Opposite Types of Granularity Difference - posted 19 September 2015.

- An Account of Necessity as an Attribute of Propositions - posted 1 October 2015.

- What is Necessity De Dicto? - posted 1 November 2015.

- Skepticism about Metaphysical Modality and Unclear Cases - posted 20 November 2015.

- Modal Realism - posted 21 December 2015.

- Quine's Poor Tom Revisited: Against Sayward - posted 26 December 2015.

- The Humphrey Objection to Modal Realism - posted 2 January 2016.

- Does Kripke Really Have Obstinate Rigidity in Mind at All in Naming and Necessity? - posted 18 January 2016.

- Indicative Modality is Not Epistemic - posted 27 January 2016.

- Sider's Quasi-Conventionalism About Modality - posted 13 February 2016.

- Five Objections to Sider's Quasi-Conventionalism About Modality  -

- Transitivity and Conditionals - posted 10 March 2016.

- Sufficient Conditions for Some Inference-Patterns Involving Conditionals - posted 17 May 2016.

- Modal Realism and Counterpossibles: A Tension in Lewis - posted 16 June 2016.

- Reply to Adams and Clarke, and their Rejoinder - posted 8 July 2016.

- Denying the Conditional Premise: An Underrated Response to Skeptical Arguments - posted 1 August 2016.

- Are Meanings 'Individual Things'? An Important Unclarity in Lycan - 30 September 2016.

- Distributed Verification: Semantic Deference Needn't Bottom Out in a Non-Deferential User - 14 October 2016.

- Caught in the Act of Confusing Subjunctive Necessity and Apriority: The Importance of the Sprigge Quote in Naming and Necessity - 26 October 2016.

- On 'Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology' - Towards a More Nuanced View - 15 November 2016.

- What Was My Problem? - 17 December 2016.

- What Are My Problems Now? - 24 December 2016.

- 'Close Enough' Closer to the Truth About Counterfactuals - 20 January 2017.

- The Resurgence of Metaphysics as a Notational Convenience - 15 February 2017.

- Quantification and 'Extra Constant' Semantics - 14 March 2017.

- Reflections on My Claim that Inherent Counterfactual Invariance is Broadly Semantic - 3 April 2017.

- Modern Quantificational Logic Doesn't Subsume Traditional Logic - 21 April 2017.

- Explaining the A Priori in Terms of Meaning and Essence -  21 April 2017.

- On Warren's 'The Possibility of Truth by Convention' - 3 May 2017.

- The Pre-Kripkean Puzzles are Back - 6 May 2017.

- The Schmidentity Challenge (to the Sui Generis View of Identity Statements) - 10 June 2017.

- An Attempt to Diagnose the Disagreement over the Relational Explanation of Identity - 8 July 2017.

- An Adventure in Linking Necessity to Apriority - 1 August 2017.

- Notes on Counterfactual Scenario Descriptions, (...) - 23 August 2017.

- Kipper's Bombshell - 30 August 2017.

- Strohminger and Yli-Vakkuri Improve (in Some Respects) on Kipper's Bombshell - 4 September 2017.

- The Importance of Counterfactual-Invariance Deciders - 6 September 2017.

- A New Account of the Conditions Under Which a Proposition is Necessarily True - 11 September 2017.

- A Dialogue on Mathematical Propositions - 22 September 2017.

- Sticking Up for 'Essence = Necessity + Intrinsicality' in the Face of Zysltra's Argument - 10 December 2017.

- Contingent Examples of Term-Relative Intrinsicality - 12 December 2017.

- Two Critical Remarks on The Elephant in the Brain - January 2018.

- Robin Hanson Responds - January 2018.

- Update on my Necessity and Propositions account (and my haste to declare it false) - January 2018.

- 'Metaphorical Truth'? Three Frontiers for a Sharper Metalinguistic Negotiation Toolkit - February 2018.

- Epistemic Modals and Whether 'True' and 'False' are Ambiguous - May 2018.

- Notes on Modality - August 2018.

- Notes on Modality II - "Deserving the name", the grandeur of the idea of metaphysical modality, &c. - October 2018.


Non-article posts and link posts:

- Welcome post - posted 24 February 2011.
- On Identity Statements - posted 12 April 2011. Points to a PDF article.