Sprachlogik

Source 1: We want to know the vocabulary and syntax of being, or as Rosen puts it in 'The Limits of Contingency', 'the combinato...

I want to explore a 'no clear best deserver' view of the - very inchoate - role that the distinction between (metaphysically) necess...

Last Thursday I gave a talk at Sydney University's philosophy department about Kipper's bombshell , my old account of necessity, and...

[UPDATE: These ideas have led to a paper , 'Linking Necessity to Apriority', in Acta Analytica .] There is an important link betwe...

One of the big questions surrounding Kripke's innovations in Naming and Necessity  is the extent to which, with his doctrines about nece...

Philosophers, in the wake of Naming and Necessity , have distinguished the main Kripkean notion of rigid designation, which applies to an ex...

The Humphrey objection to modal realism , due to Kripke, centres on counterpart theory, and alleges that this assigns counterintuitive trut...

Some philosophers are skeptical of the notion of metaphysical or subjunctive modality isolated by Kripke. They may think for instance that t...

I hope to say more about this in future, making the account more perspicuous and better defending it, but it is high time I made a blog post...

This is the second post in a series on de re  modality and quantification into modal contexts. The first is here . Immediately after th...

This is the first in a series of posts about these issues, the plan for which is given below. Followup posts On Kripke's Intuiti...