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Tuesday, 27 March 2018

Forthcoming in Acta Analytica

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My paper ' Linking Necessity to Apriority ' is forthcoming in Acta Analytica . It grew out of this blog post , although the propo...
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Thursday, 8 March 2018

'Metaphorical Truth'? Three Frontiers for a Sharper Metalinguistic Negotiation Toolkit

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I have recently been thinking about verbal disputes, a topic which has seen an increase in philosophical attention over the last few years. ...
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Monday, 29 January 2018

Update on my Necessity and Propositions account (and my haste to declare it false)

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In some recent posts here I have discussed propositions like 'Air is airy' (due to Jens Kipper) which we know to be necessarily true...
Tuesday, 9 January 2018

Robin Hanson Responds

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I recently posted criticisms of Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler's excellent new social science book The Elephant in the Brain. Hanson res...
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Wednesday, 3 January 2018

Two Critical Remarks on The Elephant in the Brain

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UPDATE: See  my response to Robin Hanson's response . The Elephant in the Brain , the new book by Robin Hanson and Kevin Simler, is a...
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Monday, 11 December 2017

Contingent Examples of Term-Relative Intrinsicality?

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Zylstra's work shows that, if we are going to try to analyze essence in terms of necessity and intrinsicality and deliver the goods on...
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Saturday, 9 December 2017

Sticking Up for 'Essence = Necessity + Intrinsicality' in the Face of Zylstra's Argument

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Followup: Contingent Examples of Term-Relative Intrinsicality? UPDATE 11/12/2017: The more I think about Zylstra's argument, the more ...
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