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  philosophy of language

May 19th, 2008

Belief About the Self

SUNY-Fredonia’s own, Neil Feit, has a book coming out this summer. OUP has a description – plus some nice blurbs […]

April 29th, 2008

Contrastivism and the Skeptical Paradox

Here’s one standard way to formulate the skeptical paradox. I know that I have hands. I don’t know I’m not […]

April 16th, 2008

An Objection to Direct Reference Theory: Part II

In a previous post I presented an argument from Jubien aimed at direct reference theory that relied on mereological essentialism. […]

April 9th, 2008

An Objection to Direct Reference Theory

This seems like a very quick and hasty objection to direct reference theory from Michael Jubien, but it’s interesting. Direct […]

March 4th, 2008

Semantic/Pragmatic Confusion with ‘And’

You’ve gotta love it when a car commercial picks up on the semantic/pragmatic confusion that sometimes goes with the logical […]

March 3rd, 2008

I Was Not Almost a Bag of Turnips

I’ve been writing about Weak Substantivalism. Here are the two previous posts. 1. Two Kinds of Substantivalism2. They Are There: […]

March 2nd, 2008

They Are There: Some Consequences of Weak Substantivalism

A few days ago I laid out three views about the nature of space-time. Here’s a quick summary of those […]

January 9th, 2008

A-Theory and Vagueness

This is pretty half-baked, but consider the following proposition: (1) January 9, 2008 is present. I think it is a […]

December 17th, 2007

Ways-Millianism: A Puzzle (Part Three)

So, it’s time for the puzzle. First, a quick recap. 1. Ways-Millianism (Part One) I explained how Millianism responds to […]

December 14th, 2007

Ways-Millianism: A Puzzle (Part Two)

In Ways-Millianism: A Puzzle (Part One), I explained how ways of believing can be employed to respond to Frege Puzzles. […]