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Monday, 14 November 2016

On Carnap's 'Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology' - Towards a More Nuanced View

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Below are some notes on the first two sections Carnap's classic paper ' Empiricism, Semantics, and Ontology '. (Carnap's ide...
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Wednesday, 26 October 2016

Caught in the Act of Confusing Subjunctive Necessity and Apriority: The Importance of the Sprigge Quote in Naming and Necessity

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One of the big questions surrounding Kripke's innovations in Naming and Necessity  is the extent to which, with his doctrines about nece...
Friday, 14 October 2016

Distributed Verification: Semantic Deference Needn't Bottom Out in a Non-Deferential User

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Woodward in 'Reference and Deference' writes: Linguistic deference and conceptual deference are widespread phenomena. However, som...
Friday, 30 September 2016

Feedback please: Thesis draft, Necessity and Propositions

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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...
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Thursday, 29 September 2016

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

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

Denying the Conditional Premise: An Underrated Response to Skeptical Arguments

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(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...
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Thursday, 7 July 2016

Reply to Adams and Clarke, and their Rejoinder

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My recent  Logos & Episteme   paper, ' Two New Counterexamples to the Truth-Tracking Theory of Knowledge ', has come in for c...
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