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Thursday, 19 December 2013

Sidelle and the Contingency of Conventions: An Objection Regained

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This is a draft of a paper. Alan Sidelle's conventionalism about modality is well-known, and only a bit less of a whipping-boy than th...
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Wednesday, 13 November 2013

Names: Between Mill and Frege

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Followup posts:  Empty Names and Negative Existentials Names and the Articulation Assumption Names and the Publicity of Meaning ( Ad...
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Monday, 21 October 2013

Formal Logic Isn't a General Science of Validity

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'Tell me how you are searching, and I will tell you what you are searching for.' - Wittgenstein. Introduction   A curious fe...
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Wednesday, 9 October 2013

Philosophers' Carnival #156

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Welcome to the 156th edition of the Philosophers' Carnival ! It's exactly one year since I took over organizing duties from Richard ...
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Thursday, 26 September 2013

The Truth-Tracking Account of Knowledge: Two New Counterexamples

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In recent years Nozick's notion of knowledge as tracking truth has witnessed a revival. - Horacio Arló-Costa, 2006 . [This is a dra...
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Monday, 19 August 2013

A Fallacy in Hofweber's Arguments in Ontology

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[This is a draft of a paper .] Hofweber's ontological project crucially involves inferring negative existential statements from state...
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Wednesday, 31 July 2013

A Problem for the Simple Theory of Counterfactuals

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In a recent blog post called 'The Simple Theory of Counterfactuals' , Terrance Tomkow argues extensively for a theory of counterfact...
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