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Saturday, 20 April 2013

The Non-Indexical Core of Presentism is Monism

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In recent discussions about temporal ontology, there has been interest in the question of the prospects for a non-indexical, or externalist,...
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Wednesday, 10 April 2013

Philosophers' Carnival #150

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Hosted with great panache by Professor Eric Schwitzgebel, HERE . Please email me if you have a philosophy blog and are interested in hosti...
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Tuesday, 12 March 2013

On the Truth-Functional Account of Indicative Conditionals

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The "if/⊃"-question has an interesting history. It had evidently been considered (in essentials) by the Stoics, and by some mediae...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2013

A Modification to Lewis's Theory of Counterfactuals

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I propose a modification to Lewis's (1973) theory of counterfactuals, which has come to be treated by many as the standard semantics for...
Wednesday, 2 January 2013

Notes on Identity (and the idea of a 'law of metaphysics' concerning it)

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(I) Everything is identical with itself and with no other thing. Consider what results when we try to express (I) in first-order logic: ...
Sunday, 9 December 2012

On the Problems of Reference and Intentionality II

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The following remarks were written when I was wrestling with these problems over an extended period. They might act as a stimulus to someone...
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Tuesday, 9 October 2012

Philosophers' Carnival #144 + Statement of New Direction

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Welcome to the 144th edition of Philosophers' Carnival , the first edition since I took over organizational duties from Richard Yetter ...
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