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160Schiffer’s New Theory of Propositions (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (1). 2006.Every fifteen years or so Stephen Schiffer writes a state of the art book on the philosophy of language, with special emphasis on belief ascriptions, meaning, and propositions. The latest is his terrific new book The Things we Mean. It is again full of ideas, insights, arguments, expositions, and theories. For us, however, who believe that that-clauses are first and foremost clauses, not referring expressions, and that they thus do not refer to propositions or anything else, The Things we Mean b…Read more
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37Précis of Ontology and the Ambitions of MetaphysicsPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 94 (2): 463-465. 2017.
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272Logic and ontologyStanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2005.A number of important philosophical problems are problems in the overlap of logic and ontology. Both logic and ontology are diverse fields within philosophy, and partly because of this there is not one single philosophical problem about the relation between logic and ontology. In this survey article we will first discuss what different philosophical projects are carried out under the headings of "logic" and "ontology" and then we will look at several areas where logic and ontology overlap.
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30Extraction, displacement, and focus: A Reply to Balcerak JacksonLinguistics and Philosophy 37 (3): 263-267. 2014.
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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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5Jody Azzouni, Deflating Existential Consequence: A Case for Nominalism (review)Philosophical Review 116 (3): 465-467. 2007.
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