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How to Account for the Falsehood of an Affirmative Proposition and the Truth of a Negative Proposition
There are two versions of the correspondence theory of truth: the object-based correspondence theory and the fact-based correspondence theory. Some...
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Singular concepts
Alonzo Church proposed a powerful and elegant theory of sequences of functions and their arguments as surrogates for Russellian singular propositions...
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Singular Contents (With and Without Objects)
Perceptual experiences seem to in some sense have singular contents. For example, a perceptual experience of a dog as fluffy seems to represent some...
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What do propositions explain? Inflationary vs. deflationary perspectives and the case of singular propositions
In this paper we take up the question of the explanatory significance of the notion of propositional content. Our first goal is to disentangle two...
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The Role of Affective Empathy in Eliminating Discrimination Against Women: a Conceptual Proposition
Due to its wide-ranging reservations and lack of effective enforcement mechanisms the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination...
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Complex demonstratives, singular thought, and belief attributions
Jeffrey King has famously argued that there are several prima facie problems with the direct reference theory of the semantics of complex...
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On Our Understanding of Singular Negative Existential Statements: A Defense of Shallow Pretense Theory
In uttering negative existential sentences, we do not mention but use an empty singular term. A pretense account explains the use in terms of...
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The truth conditions of sentences with referentially used definite descriptions
Keith Donnellan’s distinction between the attributive and referential uses of definite descriptions has spurred debates regarding the truth...
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Logical Form and the Unity of the Proposition
In this section I set the stage for Wittgenstein’s Metametaphysics by providing the necessary philosophical and historical context. I trace...
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The Relational Analysis of Belief Ascriptions and Schiffer’s Puzzle
Using a variant of Schiffer’s puzzle regarding de re belief, I recently presented a new argument against the so-called Naive Russellian theory,...
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Nonattributive and Nonreferential Uses of Definite Descriptions
This paper revisits Donnellan’s distinction between referential and attributive uses of definite descriptions and argues that it is not exhaustive....
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Husserl and Disjunctivism Revisited
In a recent series of important papers, Søren Overgaard has defended a disjunctivist reading of Edmund Husserl’s theory of perception. According to...
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Backtracking Analysis and Causal Ascription of Singular Historicals
One task of historians is to construct causal ascription of singular historicals between eminent historical events. For instance, the controversy...
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Logic of Diagrams
Venn-Peirce diagram system has been extended with the incorporation of individuals and absence of individuals. Three types of diagram-logic system...
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On group background beliefs
In this paper, I argue that the following claims are jointly inconsistent: (1) that an agent’s justification for belief, if it’s constituted by...
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Local and global deference
A norm of local expert deference says that your credence in an arbitrary proposition A , given that the expert’s probability for A is n , should be n ....
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The Quantified Argument Calculus with Two- and Three-valued Truth-valuational Semantics
We introduce a two-valued and a three-valued truth-valuational substitutional semantics for the Quantified Argument Calculus (Quarc). We then prove...
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Propositions as Intentions
I argue against the interpretation of propositions as intentions and proof-objects as fulfillments proposed by Heyting and defended by Tieszen and...
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Which ‘Intensional Paradoxes’ are Paradoxes?
We begin with a brief explanation of our proof-theoretic criterion of paradoxicality—its motivation, its methods, and its results so far. It is a...
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Kaplanianism
This paper introduces a novel perspective on the intricate interplay between the conscious and representational aspects of visual experience. This...