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33William S. Hatcher. The logical foundations of mathematics. Foundations and philosophy of science and technology series. Pergamon Press, Oxford etc. 1982, x + 320 pp. - William S. Hatcher. Foundations of mathematics. W. B. Saunders Company, Philadelphia, London, and Toronto, 1968, xiii + 327 pp (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 51 (2): 467-470. 1986.
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33Beyond Belief? A Critical Study of Graham Priest's Beyond the Limits of Thought'Theoria 67 (2): 140-53. 2001.
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30Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob FregePhilosophical Studies (Dublin) 29 290-291. 1982.
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30Fictionalism in Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.There are things we routinely say that may strike us as literally false but that we are nonetheless reluctant to give up. This might be something mundane, like the way we talk about the sun setting in the west, or it could be something much deeper, like engaging in talk that is ostensibly about numbers despite believing that numbers do not literally exist. Rather than regard such behaviour as self-defeating, a "fictionalist" is someone who thinks that this kind of discourse is entirely appropria…Read more
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29On a Moorean solution to instability puzzlesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 68 (4). 1990.This Article does not have an abstract
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28The Problem of (Fully) Empty PredicatesAustralasian Philosophical Review 1 (2): 163-167. 2017.ABSTRACTIn our paper, we mount a novel argument, which trades on recent work by Roy Sorensen [2016], following work by Saul Kripke, against Yablo's preferred reading of if-thenism, which is an attempt to read problematically ontologically committing sentences in a way that does not carry such ontological commitments. Although our argument is directed at Yablo's proposed reading of if-thenism, if the argument is successful, other versions of if-thenism may be affected. After reviewing Sorensen's …Read more
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23A critical introduction to fictionalismBloomsbury Academic. 2018.A Critical Introduction to Fictionalism provides a clear and comprehensive understanding of an important alternative to realism. Drawing on questions from ethics, the philosophy of religion, art, mathematics, logic and science, this is a complete exploration of how fictionalism contrasts with other non-realist doctrines and motivates influential fictionalist treatments across a range of philosophical issues. Defending and criticizing influential as well as emerging fictionalist approaches, this …Read more
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17Towards Non-Being: the Logic and Metaphysics of Intentionality, by Graham PriestDisputatio 295-301. 2005.019-11.
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15Robert Nola (25 June 1940 – 23 October 2022)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102 (1): 251-252. 2024.Robert Nola was born in Auckland, his father a Croatian fisherman who emigrated to New Zealand. Robert was the first in his New Zealand family to go to University, and after completing an undergrad...
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13Kit Fine. First-order modal theories I—sets. Noûs, vol. 15 , pp. 177–205. - Kit Fine. First-order modal theories. Studia logica, vol. 39 , pp. 159–202. - Kit Fine. First-order modal theories III—facts. Synthese, vol. 53 , pp. 43–122 (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 53 (4): 1262-1269. 1988.
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13Terms and truth: Reference direct and anaphoricAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 82 (2). 2004.Book Information Terms and Truth: Reference Direct and Anaphoric. Terms and Truth: Reference Direct and Anaphoric Alan Berger , Bradford; Cambridge MA: MIT Press , 2002 , xvii + 234 , US$35 ( cloth ) By Alan Berger. Bradford; Cambridge MA: MIT Press. Pp. xvii + 234. US$35 (cloth:).
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13Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics (review)Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 30 393-396. 1984.
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12Contingency and the a posterioriAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 60 (1). 1982.This Article does not have an abstract
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11Why Realisms about Fiction Must (and Can) Accommodate Fictional PropertiesPhilosophies 8 (5): 82. 2023.The topic of fictional objects is a familiar one, the topic of fictional properties less so. But it deserves its own place in the philosophy of fiction, if only because fictional properties have such a prominent role to play in science fiction and fantasy. What, then, are fictional properties and how does their apparent unreality relate to the unreality of fictional objects? The present paper explores these questions in the light of familiar debates about the nature of fictional objects.
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9Review: William S. Hatcher, The Logical Foundations of Mathematics; William S. Hatcher, Foundations of Mathematics; William Hatcher's, Logical Foundations of Mathematics (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 51 (2): 467-470. 1986.
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8Russell’s Descriptions and Meinong’s AssumptionsIn Andrea Bottani & Richard Davies (eds.), Modes of Existence: Papers in Ontology and Philosophical Logic, Ontos Verlag. pp. 81-104. 2006.
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5Translations from the Philosophical Writings of Gottlob FregePhilosophical Studies (Dublin) 29 290-291. 1982.
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3Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics (review)Philosophical Studies (Dublin) 30 393-396. 1984.
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3Mill's Philosophy of LanguageIn Christopher Macleod & Dale E. Miller (eds.), A Companion to Mill, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.. 2016.The present chapter describes Mill's account of language and the wider goals that he sets for his account, such as its relation to logic and reasoning. While the main purpose of the chapter is expository, it also engages with the common perception among philosophers of language that Mill's views of language are outdated, apart, possibly, from his purely denotative account of proper names. By focusing on Mill's view of names as well as propositions, including his conflation of predication and ass…Read more
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University of AucklandDepartment of Philosophy
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
General Philosophy of Science |