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Salmón, Schiffer and Frege’s Constraint
In his (Philosophical Perspectives 1:455–480, 1987) and (Noûs, 40:361–368, 2006), Schiffer devised a puzzle about Salmón’s (in: Frege’s puzzle, MIT...
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Husserl, Model Theory, and Formal Essences
Husserl’s philosophy of mathematics, his metatheory, and his transcendental phenomenology have a sophisticated and systematic interrelation that...
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How it All Hangs Together
I have addressed a wide range of topics in my work, from fiction, the ontology of art, phenomenology, social ontology, and work on ordinary objects...
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Pleonastic propositions and the face value theory
Propositions are a useful tool in philosophical theorizing, even though they are not beyond reasonable nominalistic doubts. Stephen Schiffer’s...
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Who’s Afraid of Conceptual Analysis?
Amie Thomasson’s work provides numerous ways to rethink and improve our approach to metaphysics. This chapter is my attempt to begin to sketch why I...
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Propositions on the cheap
According to the classical account, propositions are sui generis , abstract, intrinsically-representational entities and our cognitive attitudes, and...
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The neo-Carnapians
This essay defends the neo-Quinean approach to ontology against the criticisms of two neo-Carnapians, Huw Price and Amie Thomasson.
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Are moral properties impossible?
Perhaps the actual world does not contain moral properties. But might moral properties be impossible because no world, possible or actual, contains...
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Attitudes, Supervaluations, and Vagueness in the World
I consider two possible sources of vagueness. The first is indeterminacy about which intension is expressed by a word. The second is indeterminacy...
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Propositional or non-propositional attitudes?
Propositionalism is the view that intentional attitudes, such as belief, are relations to propositions. Propositionalists argue that propositionalism...
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Some Preliminary Issues
What kind of semantic enigma hides in the following toy-conversation?The answer to this question, which we will disclose throughout this book, is...
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The ontological status of minimal entities
Minimal entities are, roughly, those that fall under notions defined by only deflationary principles. In this paper I provide an accurate...