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25Nicholas Rescher, Cognitive Harmony. The Role of Systemic Harmony in the Constitution of Knowledge. Pittsburgh (PA), University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005 (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 69 (2): 373-374. 2007.
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332The epistemic significance of numeralsSynthese 198 (Suppl 5): 1019-1045. 2014.The central topic of this article is (the possibility of) de re knowledge about natural numbers and its relation with names for numbers. It is held by several prominent philosophers that (Peano) numerals are eligible for existential quantification in epistemic contexts (‘canonical’), whereas other names for natural numbers are not. In other words, (Peano) numerals are intimately linked with de re knowledge about natural numbers, whereas the other names for natural numbers are not. In this articl…Read more
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628Descriptions and unknowabilityAnalysis 70 (1): 50-52. 2010.In a recent paper Horsten embarked on a journey along the limits of the domain of the unknowable. Rather than knowability simpliciter, he considered a priori knowability, and by the latter he meant absolute provability, i.e. provability that is not relativized to a formal system. He presented an argument for the conclusion that it is not absolutely provable that there is a natural number of which it is true but absolutely unprovable that it has a certain property. The argument depends on a descr…Read more
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20Nicholas Rescher, Epistemic Logic. A Survey of the Logic of Knowledge. Pittsburgh, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005 (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 68 (3): 644-646. 2006.
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686Being in a Position to Know and ClosureThought: A Journal of Philosophy 5 (1): 63-67. 2016.The focus of this article is the question whether the notion of being in a position to know is closed under modus ponens. The question is answered negatively.
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2371Why is There Something Rather Than Nothing? A Logical InvestigationErkenntnis 82 (3): 531-559. 2017.From Leibniz to Krauss philosophers and scientists have raised the question as to why there is something rather than nothing. Why-questions request a type of explanation and this is often thought to include a deductive component. With classical logic in the background only trivial answers are forthcoming. With free logics in the background, be they of the negative, positive or neutral variety, only question-begging answers are to be expected. The same conclusion is reached for the modal version …Read more
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30Lieven Decock, Trading Ontology for Ideology. The Interplay of Logic, Set Theory and Semantics in Quine's Philosophy (Synthese Library, Vol. 313). Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2002 (review)Tijdschrift Voor Filosofie 66 (2): 370-371. 2004.
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563Counterfactual theories of knowledge and the notion of actualityPhilosophical Studies 173 (6): 1647-1673. 2016.The central question of this article is how to combine counterfactual theories of knowledge with the notion of actuality. It is argued that the straightforward combination of these two elements leads to problems, viz. the problem of easy knowledge and the problem of missing knowledge. In other words, there is overgeneration of knowledge and there is undergeneration of knowledge. The combination of these problems cannot be solved by appealing to methods by which beliefs are formed. An alternative…Read more
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Mathematics |
Formal Epistemology |
Areas of Interest
Epistemology |
General Philosophy of Science |