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Saturday, 28 August 2021

Validity as (Material!) Truth-Preservation in Virtue of Form

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Forthcoming in Analytic Philosophy and available  on PhilPapers. Abstract: According to a standard story, part of what we have in mind when ...
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Friday, 18 June 2021

Sprachlogik on Substack

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Here.
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Sunday, 6 June 2021

Dialetheism and Transition States

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I've been thinking recently about an argument given by Graham Priest for the view that, when you're on your way out of a room, there...
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Thursday, 15 April 2021

Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies: A Simple Theory of Rigidity

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  After wrestling inconclusively with this topic a couple of years ago on this blog, I came to a much clearer view about rigidity, which I ...
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Saturday, 17 October 2020

On the Failures of Nonsense-Policing and Ordinary Language Philosophy

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In this post I reflect on the failures of nonsense-policing and ordinary language philosophy, and the fact that notwithstanding these failur...
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Thursday, 17 September 2020

On the Need to Distinguish Knowledge of Essential Properties from the Knowledge That They Are Essential

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In one of my favourite papers about modal metaphysics, Rosen's 'The Limits of Contingency', Rosen develops the idea that there a...
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Thursday, 14 May 2020

On Family Resemblance Concepts

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I want to clarify some aspects of the celebrated Wittgensteinian idea of a family resemblance concept. Are all family resemblance concepts...
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