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  philosophy of language

June 6th, 2010

Two Papers Accepted for Publication

It’s been awhile since my last blog entry. We hit the end of the semester crunch, and then I went […]

March 17th, 2010

Descriptivism Meets Gettier Talk at Northwestern

I’m giving a talk at Northwestern today called “Descriptivism Meets Gettier” as part of their Epistemology Brown Bag Lecture Series. […]

December 12th, 2009

Wide Scope Philosophy Podcast – Episode 3

Listen [podcast]http://www.sympoze.com/podcast/Episode3.mp3[/podcast] Links to Journal Articles

November 8th, 2009

“Believe That” and “Believe In”

I’m attracted to a traditional account of the semantics of belief reports which holds that the semantic content of a […]

October 26th, 2009

Neil Feit to Give Hagan Lecture This Thursday

This is a heads up for readers in the area. Our philosophy department chair, Neil Feit, is the 2009 Hagan […]

August 29th, 2009

Taking the Mystery Out of Ways

I like Ways-Millianism. It’s a combo-theory about meaning and the metaphysics of belief. Here are two of the core theses. […]

July 30th, 2009

Odd Knowledge Ascription in the Wild

Here’s a fun case. I was walking around the Science Museum in Buffalo with Simon yesterday, and I came across […]

July 16th, 2009

Intuitions About Truth vs. Intuitions About Appropriateness: Part Two

I’ve been thinking more about the possible reply that Stanley/Hawthorne types (hereafter SSIers) might offer in response to an objection […]

July 14th, 2009

Intuitions About Truth vs. Intuitions About Appropriateness

In the last post, I presented an objection to one of the main motivations for Subject Sensitive Invariantism (here). There […]

July 14th, 2009

Subject Sensitive Invariantism About Dogs and Contractors

Consider the following two cases Guard Dog Case Bob’s mom is worried about burglars. She tells him she needs a […]