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Logic as a methodological discipline
This essay offers a conception of logic by which logic may be considered to be exceptional among the sciences on the backdrop of a naturalistic...
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The multiple relation theory and Schiffer’s puzzle
Following Russell, philosophers like Moltmann, Jubien, Boër, and Newman analyse ‘John believes that Mary is French’ as ‘ R (John, the property of...
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Axiomatic Thinking and Philosophy from Neo-Scholastic Logic to Neo-Realism
Axiomatic thought: from formal rigor to formalism. Values and limits of formalism and relationship with semantic discourse and apophantic discourse....
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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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The Turning Point in Wittgenstein’s Philosophy of Mathematics: Another Turn
According to Mark Steiner, Wittgenstein’s intense work in the philosophy of mathematics during the early 1930s brought about a distinct turning point...
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A Hyperintensional Theory of (Empty) Names
This paper presents an original semantic theory of proper names that aims to cover both non-empty and empty proper names. According to the theory,...
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Frames and Games: Intensionality and Equilibrium Selection
The paper is an addition to the intensionalist approach to decision theory, with emphasis on game theoretic modelling. Extensionality in games is an...
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Definite Descriptions
We have used phrases like “the King of France” or “the tallest person in the world” several times, though we always treated them like non-rigid...
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Conditionals, curry, and consequence: embracing deduction
We extend the Embracing Revenge account of the semantic paradoxes by constructing two distinct consequence relations that reflect, in different ways,...
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Anti-exceptionalism and the justification of basic logical principles
Anti-exceptionalism about logic is the thesis that logic is not special. In this paper, I consider, and reject, a challenge to this thesis. According...
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Grounding and auto-abstraction
Abstraction principles and grounding can be combined in a natural way (Rosen in Hale B, Hoffmann A (eds) Modality: metaphysics, logic, and...
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What Is the A Priori?
In this chapter, I attempt to elucidate the concepts of “a priori method”, “a priori warrant”, and “a priori knowledge”. I elucidate these concepts...
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In Defence of the Shareability of Fregean Self-Thought
Consider the Unshareability View, namely, the view that first person thought or self-thought—thought as typically expressed via the first person...
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Towards a Hermeneutic Epistemology of the Imagination: The Critical-Ontological Contribution of Paul Ricoeur
Kant’s epistemological turn and the role of imagination between productive and reproductive imagination. The contribution of Husserl, Bachelard and...
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Nonexistent Objects and Their Semantic and Ontological Dependence on Referential Acts
This paper argues for a distinction between fictional characters, as parts of intentionally created abstract artifacts, and intentional objects, as...
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Federigo Enriques and the Philosophical Background to the Discussion of Implicit Definitions
Implicit definitions have been much discussed in the history and philosophy of science in relation to logical positivism. Not only have the logical...
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An Ambiguous Reading of Kant’s Epistemology
This chapter lays the foundation for the thesis, more fully supported in Chaps. 3 and 4 , that the debate between Helmholtz, Cohen, and Frege is...
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No Place for Private Practice
Wittgenstein harshly criticized what he considered “mythologies” infecting our understanding of how mathematics work. He was especially reluctant to...
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Can Church’s thesis be viewed as a Carnapian explication?
Turing and Church formulated two different formal accounts of computability that turned out to be extensionally equivalent. Since the accounts refer...
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The intrapersonal normative twin earth argument
In this paper I develop an argument against applying a causal theory of mental content to normative concepts. This argument—which I call the...