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Friday, 10 August 2018

Notes on Modality

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Some notes from my post-PhD attempts to get back to the really deep problems surrounding modality. The truth-conditions framing of the ...
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Wednesday, 20 June 2018

Forthcoming in The Philosophical Forum

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My paper ' Propositions, Meaning and Names ' is forthcoming in the Winter 2018 edition of The Philosophical Forum . It derives ...
Saturday, 5 May 2018

Epistemic Modals and Whether 'True' and 'False' are Ambiguous

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Around 2011 I began to develop a view about epistemic modals which I have always wanted to return to. Motivated by dissatisfaction with the ...
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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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