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    Il n’est pas facile de voir quel est l’objectif de ce livre. Au chapitreI, Rivenc annonce que ce qui l’intéresse est le lien chez Davidson entre le format d’une théorie de la signification pour les langues naturelles et le thème de l’interprétation radicale qui serait à l’œuvre dans tout échange linguistique. En fait, Rivenc ne dit à peu près rien sur ce lien. Son livre consiste plutôt en une suite de critiques disparates du programme de Davidson, qu’il emprunte à différents commentateurs de cel…Read more
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    Soft Libertarianism and the Value of Incompatibilist Control
    Journal of Value Inquiry 57 (2): 221-232. 2023.
  •  129
    Explaining dubious assertions
    Philosophical Studies 165 (3): 825-830. 2013.
    David Sosa argues that the knowledge account of assertion is unsatisfactory, because it cannot explain the oddness of what he calls dubious assertions. One such dubious assertion is of the form ‘P but I do not know whether I know that p.’ Matthew Benton has attempted to show how proponents of the knowledge account can explain what’s wrong this assertion. I show that Benton’s explanation is inadequate, and propose my own explanation of the oddness of this dubious assertion. I also explain what’s …Read more
  •  89
    Omissions and Their Effects
    Journal of the American Philosophical Association 6 (4): 502-516. 2020.
    According to what I call theidentity view, omissions are actual events. For example, the nominal ‘Ali's non-jogging’ denotes whatever Ali is doing at the time she is said not to be jogging. Some have objected that omissions (and more generally absences) cannot be events, since the two do not have the same causal relations. I show how advocates of the identity view can offer a pragmatic account of the data the objection relies on.
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    Contextualism, relativism and ordinary speakers’ judgments
    Philosophical Studies 143 (3): 341-356. 2009.
    Some authors have recently claimed that relativism about knowledge sentences accommodates the context sensitivity of our use of such sentences as well as contextualism, while avoiding the counterintuitive consequences of contextualism regarding our inter-contextual judgments, that is, our judgments about knowledge claims made in other contexts. I argue that relativism, like contextualism, involves an error theory regarding a certain class of inter-contextual judgments.
  • La Question des Fondements Empiriques de la Signification
    Dissertation, Universite de Montreal (Canada). 1995.
    L'objectif de cette these est d'etudier les fondements empiriques de notions semantiques telles que la signification, l'analyticite et la reference. J'essaie entre autres choses de defendre l'idee qu'il n'existe pas de critere permettant de definir strictement ces notions. Dans un premier temps, j'examine les critiques formulees par W. V. Quine contre la distinction analytique-synthetique. Il n'existe pas d'argument general pour rejeter cette distinction. Pour critiquer celle-ci, on doit examine…Read more
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    Constitutivism and Ideal Agency
    Analysis. forthcoming.
    According to Michael Smith’s constitutivist account, moral norms are grounded in rational requirements. These requirements, he argues, can be derived from constitutive features of ideal agency. We target a key component of Smith’s account, namely the thesis that a rationally ideal agent has intrinsic desires to help and not interfere with other agents’ rational capacities. We cast doubt on two arguments for this thesis put forward by Smith (2015, 2020).
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    Knowledge despite falsehood
    Canadian Journal of Philosophy 44 (3-4): 463-475. 2014.
    I examine the claim, made by some authors, that we sometimes acquire knowledge from falsehood. I focus on two representative cases in which a subject S infers a proposition q from a false proposition p. If S knows that q, I argue, S's false belief that p is not essential to S's cognition. S's knowledge is instead due to S's belief that p′, a proposition in the neighbourhood of p that S believes . S thus knows despite her false belief. The widely accepted and plausible principle that inferential …Read more