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213Kant's Modalities of JudgmentEuropean Journal of Philosophy 20 (2): 260-284. 2012.Abstract: This paper proposes a way to understand Kant's modalities of judgment—problematic, assertoric, and apodeictic—in terms of the location of a judgment in an inference. Other interpretations have tended to understand these modalities of judgment in terms of one or other conventional notion of modality. For example, Mattey (1986) argues that we should take them to be connected to notions of epistemic or doxastic modality. I shall argue that this is wrong, and that these kinds of interpreta…Read more
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56PropertiesInternational Studies in the Philosophy of Science 28 (4): 439-442. 2014.A book review of "Properties" by Douglas Edwards (Polity Press, 2014).
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154Relative Necessity ReformulatedJournal of Philosophical Logic 46 (1): 1-26. 2017.This paper discusses some serious difficulties for what we shall call the standard account of various kinds of relative necessity, according to which any given kind of relative necessity may be defined by a strict conditional - necessarily, if C then p - where C is a suitable constant proposition, such as a conjunction of physical laws. We argue, with the help of Humberstone, that the standard account has several unpalatable consequences. We argue that Humberstone’s alternative account has certa…Read more
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