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26New waves in philosophical logic (edited book)Palgrave-Macmillan. 2012.Machine generated contents note: -- Series Editors' PrefaceAcknowledgementsNotes on ContributorsHow Things Are Elsewhere; W. Schwarz Information Change and First-Order Dynamic Logic; B.Kooi Interpreting and Applying Proof Theories for Modal Logic; F.Poggiolesi & G.Restall The Logic(s) of Modal Knowledge; D.Cohnitz On Probabilistically Closed Languages; H.Leitgeb Dogmatism, Probability and Logical Uncertainty; B.Weatherson & D.Jehle Skepticism about Reasoning; S.Roush, K.Allen & I.HerbertLessons …Read more
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116Teaching & Learning Guide for: The Analytic/Synthetic DistinctionPhilosophy Compass 3 (1): 273-276. 2008.Readings, topics, and suggestions for a course on the analytic/synthetic distinction.
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301Metaphysical analyticity and the epistemology of logicPhilosophical Studies 171 (1): 161-175. 2013.Recent work on analyticity distinguishes two kinds, metaphysical and epistemic. This paper argues that the distinction allows for a new view in the philosophy of logic according to which the claims of logic are metaphysically analytic and have distinctive modal profiles, even though their epistemology is holist and in many ways rather Quinean. It is argued that such a view combines some of the more attractive aspects of the Carnapian and Quinean approaches to logic, whilst avoiding some famous p…Read more
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53In his recent Philosophers’ Imprint paper “The (mostly harmless) inconsistency of knowledge attributions” [Weiner, 2009], Matt Weiner argues that the semantics of the expression “knows that”, as it is used in attributions of knowledge like “Hannah knows that the bank will be open,” are inconsistent, but that this inconsistency is “mostly harmless.” He presents his view as an alternative to the invariantist, contextualist and relativist approaches currently prevalent in the literature, (e.g. [Sta…Read more
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73Practicing Evil: Training and Psychological Barriers in the Martial ArtsIn Gillian Russell (ed.), Philosophy and the Martial Arts, . pp. 28-49. 2014.An important part of learning to fight is learning to overcome psychological barriers against harming others. Though there are some interesting exceptions, most human beings experience signicant internal resistance to doing harm to other people. (Marshall 1947, Grossman 1995, Morton 2004, Jensen 2012) Whatever its moral properties, this reluctance to harm can compromise the ability to fighteffectively. Hence one might think that combat training should help trainees overcome such barriers. Howeve…Read more
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398The analytic/synthetic distinctionPhilosophy Compass 2 (5). 2007.Once a standard tool in the epistemologist’s kit, the analytic/synthetic distinction was challenged by Quine and others in the mid-twentieth century and remains controversial today. But although the work of a lot contemporary philosophers touches on this distinction – in the sense that it either has consequences for it, or it assumes results about it – few have really focussed on it recently. This has the consequence that a lot has happened that should affect our view of the analytic/synthetic d…Read more
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180In defence of Hume’s lawIn Charles Pigden (ed.), Hume on Is and Ought, Palgrave Macmillan. 2010.An argument defending the view that one cannot derive an ought from an is against the usual (suspect) counterexamples.
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57Analyticity in Externalist LanguagesIn Sarah Sawyer (ed.), New Waves in Philosophy of Language, Palgrave-macmillan. 2010.This paper presents the central theory from my book Truth in Virtue of Meaning: a defence of the Analytic/Synthetic Distinction (2008) in a more concise form.
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