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A note on means-end reasoning: knowledge, reasons and fate
In this note, I argue that knowledge of an action’s effect undermines an agent’s reason to act. This undermining occurs in some cases of bringing...
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Critique of Cognitive Parallelism
Habermas’s discourse ethics implies a cognitivist assumption that normative claims are justifiable on the basis of communicative reason. This...
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Predicates of personal taste and normative meaning
The main aim of the paper is to reject the idea that predicates of personal taste express normative meanings. According to a recent theory proposed...
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A New Minimality Condition for Boolean Accounts of Causal Regularities
The account of causal regularities in the influential INUS theory of causation has been refined in the recent developments of the regularity approach...
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Horwich’s Epistemological Fundamentality and Folk Commitment
There are many variants of deflationism about truth, but one of them, Paul Horwich’s minimalism, stands out because it accepts as axiomatic practical...
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Davidsonian Metasemantics and Radical Interpretation
In the current debate on the metaphysical grounding of semantic properties Donald Davidson is usually taken to represent interpretationism, a stance...
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Non-doxastic Attitude Reports, Information Structure, and Semantic-Pragmatic Interface
Truth conditions of sentences ascribing non-doxastic propositional attitudes seem to depend on the information structure of the embedded clause. In...
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Global expressivism and alethic pluralism
This paper discusses the relation between Crispin Wright’s alethic pluralism and my global expressivism. I argue that on many topics Wright’s own...
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Is Truth Made, and if So, What Do we Mean by that? Redefining Truthmaker Realism
Philosophical discussion of truthmaking has flourished in recent times, but what exactly does it mean to ‘make’ a truth-bearer true? I argue that...
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Self-fulfilling Prophecy in Practical and Automated Prediction
A self-fulfilling prophecy is, roughly, a prediction that brings about its own truth. Although true predictions are hard to fault, self-fulfilling...
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Reconciling Opposites: A Study of ὑπεναντίον in Aristotle
At On Generation and Corruption I.7.323b1–324a5, Aristotle claims that his new method of analysis for fundamental bodies and properties resolves a...
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The case for eliminativism about words
Words are ubiquitous and familiar, and the concept of a word features both in common-sense ways of understanding the world, and in more theoretical...
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Truth in the Post-Truth Era: Evaluating the Theories of Truth with a Table of Contingency
Notwithstanding what the champions of post-truth may think, truth remains a key concept of scientific research. In this contribution, several...
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Tasks of Truth-Theories
This chapter concentrates on problems discussed in truth theories, namely truth-bearers, the question whether the concept of truth belongs to...
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Two Kinds of Difficulties
Two distinct kinds of cases, going back to Crabbé and Ekman, show that the Tennant-Prawitz criterion for paradoxicality overgenerates, that is, there...
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The Synthesis of Texts as a Synthesis of Life
The reader’s sense of a text can dynamically change even within the space of a single first reading, let alone in repeated readings. The current...
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Truthmaker puzzles for one-level physicalists
According to one-level physicalism, reality is exhausted by fundamental physical entities and properties. This position is sometimes defended on the...
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Independent alternatives
Orthodox semantics for natural language modals give rise to two puzzles for their interactions with disjunction: Ross’s puzzle and the puzzle of free...
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Features and Bugs in Schnieder’s Theory of Properties
Although Benjamin Schnieder’s theory of the “ordinary conception” of properties successfully handles paradoxical properties—particularly, the...
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Killing Gently by Means of the śyena: The Navya-Nyāya Analysis of Vedic and Secular Injunctions (vidhi) and Prohibitions (niṣedha) from the Perspective of Dynamic Deontic Logic
In the present paper we model the Navya-Nyāya analysis of Vedic and secular injunctions and prohibitions by means of Giordani’s and Canavotto’s...
