Sprachlogik

Philosophers today frequently identify indicative modality with apriority, or at least identify it as an epistemic notion. For instance, t...

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...

UPDATE (Nov 2019): I have recently published a paper on this topic, ' Quine's Poor Tom ', in the European Journal of Analytic Ph...

This is just an expository post, but I hope to make some original points in subsequent posts which will consider objections to modal realis...

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

I recently posted an account of necessity de dicto . The purpose of this post is to pin down exactly what this topic is. The notion in ques...