Pages

▼
Friday, 30 September 2016

Feedback please: Thesis draft, Necessity and Propositions

›
Here is a draft of my PhD thesis ( updated 29 Oct )  Necessity and Propositions . It contains my best treatments so far of some of the topi...
10 comments:
Thursday, 29 September 2016

Are Meanings 'Individual Things'? An Important Unclarity in Lycan

›
I have recently been enjoying some of Lycan's papers, as well as his Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction. In Chapter 5 ...
2 comments:
Monday, 1 August 2016

Denying the Conditional Premise: An Underrated Response to Skeptical Arguments

›
(This is a more focused re-write of a post from a couple of years ago, with better coverage of the literature.) 1. Introduction Mu...
6 comments:
Thursday, 7 July 2016

Reply to Adams and Clarke, and their Rejoinder

›
My recent  Logos & Episteme   paper, ' Two New Counterexamples to the Truth-Tracking Theory of Knowledge ', has come in for c...
8 comments:
Monday, 20 June 2016

Forthcoming in Disputatio

›
My paper 'On Identity Statements: In Defense of a Sui Generis View' is forthcoming in Disputatio . The final draft is available a...
Thursday, 16 June 2016

Modal Realism and Counterpossibles: A Tension in Lewis

›
David Lewis held that possible worlds are worlds as concrete as our own (cf. Lewis (1986)). He also held, in his work on counterfactuals (cf...
9 comments:
Thursday, 10 March 2016

Transitivity and Conditionals

›
Followup: Sufficient Conditions for Some Inference-Patterns Involving Conditionals Let us assume that a conditional A > C is true if...
2 comments: