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Thursday, 25 April 2019
Williamson's Metaphysical Modal Epistemology and Vacuism about Counterpossibles
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Timothy Williamson has argued that our capacity for metaphysical modal judgement comes along with our capacity for counterfactual judgement....
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Sunday, 7 April 2019
Contradictory Premises and the Notion of Validity
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When evaluating arguments in philosophy, it can be tempting to call an argument 'invalid' if you determine that it has contradictory...
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Tuesday, 5 February 2019
Two Sources of Interest in Metaphysical Modality (and Kripke in Light of Them)
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Source 1: We want to know the vocabulary and syntax of being, or as Rosen puts it in 'The Limits of Contingency', 'the combinato...
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Thursday, 10 January 2019
Rigidity and General Terms: Two Different Analogues of the Singular Case
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This post wrestles with and begins to settle on a view about the confusing issue of how Kripke's notion of rigidity may apply to genera...
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Wednesday, 26 December 2018
Moral Concepts as Unsystematic on the Introduction Side
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Here is a metaethical idea which I find appealing and under-explored. What if what makes metaethics and the cognitivism vs. non-cognitivism ...
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Thursday, 6 December 2018
Different Attitudes about Meaningfulness in Philosophy, and Their Consequences
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What makes a question or a statement meaningful as opposed to nonsensical? This is a hard question, and perhaps not a very fruitful one in p...
Thursday, 4 October 2018
Notes on Modality II - "Deserving the name", the grandeur of the idea of metaphysical modality, &c.
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I want to explore a 'no clear best deserver' view of the - very inchoate - role that the distinction between (metaphysically) necess...
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