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5Un enigma per l’ontologiaRivista di Estetica 32 (32): 41-69. 2006.1 Ontologia L’ontologia è la disciplina filosofica che cerca di scoprire che cosa c’è: quali entità costituiscono la realtà, di che materia è fatto il mondo? Dunque l’ontologia è parte della metafisica ed infatti sembra rappresentare all’incirca la metà della metafisica. Essa cerca di stabilire quali (generi di) cose ci siano, l’altra metà cerca di scoprire quali siano le proprietà (generali) di queste cose e quali relazioni (generali) intercorrano fra esse. La risoluzione di questioni nell’a...
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29Extraction, displacement, and focus: A Reply to Balcerak JacksonLinguistics and Philosophy 37 (3): 263-267. 2014.
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5Jody Azzouni, Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism (review)Philosophical Review 116 (3): 465-467. 2007.
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166Inferential Role and the Ideal of Deductive LogicThe Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication 5Although there is a prima facie strong case for a close connection between the meaning and inferential role of certain expressions, this connection seems seriously threatened by the semantic and logical paradoxes which rely on these inferential roles. Some philosophers have drawn radical conclusions from the paradoxes for the theory of meaning in general, and for which sentences in our language are true. I criticize these overreactions, and instead propose to distinguish two conceptions of infer…Read more
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79forthcoming in Meanings and other Things: essays on Stephen Schiffer Gary Ostertag (ed.) MIT Press 2007. Schiffer substantially changed his view about propositions and that-clauses somewhere between his two most recent books: Remnants of Meaning and The Things We Mean. I look at what problems his earlier view had, and what reason Schiffer gives for giving it up in favor of his more recent view. I argue that Schiffer’s reasons are not very good reasons, and that instead the problems for Remnants …Read more
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