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Friday, 9 September 2022

Notes on Modal Issues Regarding the Ontology of Propositions

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Cross-posted here. A true sentence like ‘John is here in this room’, and its Twin Earth counterpart, express different propositions, since t...
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Tuesday, 28 June 2022

Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity - now out with Routledge

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  My book Meaning and Metaphysical Necessity is now out with Routledge. I began seriously developing the ideas in it in 2011 when I began my...
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Friday, 3 December 2021

The Threefold Root of the How-Question About Mathematical Knowledge

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Platonism is the default, almost obviously correct view about mathematical objects. One of the major things that puts pressure on Platonism ...
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Saturday, 20 November 2021

A Puzzle about Abbreviation and Self-Reference

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Let us use 'ONE' as an abbreviation of 'This sentence token contains more than one word token'. Now consider whether the fol...
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Friday, 5 November 2021

Major Inaccuracies in Misak's review of Journey to the Edge of Reason, a new Gödel Biography

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In the Times Literary Supplement there is a review of a new biography of Gödel by philosopher Cheryl Misak. The review is called 'What ...
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Thursday, 21 October 2021

Reversing Logical Nihilism - Forthcoming in Synthese

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Final draft available on PhilPapers . Abstract:  Gillian Russell has recently proposed counterexamples to such elementary argument forms as ...
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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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