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Monday, 24 June 2013

The Or-to-If Argument

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This is a sequel or appendix to 'The Truth-Functional Account of Indicative Conditionals' . Before we look at this argument, it ne...
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Wednesday, 15 May 2013

Blackburn's Interpretation of Wittgenstein as a Proto Quasi Realist

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In his 1993 'Review of Paul Johnston's Wittgenstein: Rethinking the Inner ' (published in Ethics vol. 103 that year, pp. 588 - ...
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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: ...