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50Semantical considerations on modal counterfactual logic with corollaries on decidability, completeness, and consistency questionsNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 21 (2): 467-479. 1980.
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49Replies (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (3). 2005.Lucky is the writer whose commentators combine perceptiveness and grace. My two commentators delved deeply into the framework I assume in WAI. Where they see gaps, they elegantly nudge the discussion towards needed extensions/clarifications. Both use the monograph to launch searching metaphysical questions—about method and content. I will take up matters of method first, then turn to specific questions in the interpretation of Descartes and the metaphysics of essence/necessity/conceivability.
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47Referential Mechanics: Direct Reference and the Foundations of SemanticsOxford University Press. 2014.This volume is focused on understanding a key idea in modern semantics-direct reference-and its integration into a general semantics for natural language.
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46Introduction to the Volume “Naming and Necessity: A 40th‐Year Anniversary”Theoria 88 (2): 276-277. 2021.Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 2, Page 276-277, April 2022.
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42RepliesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (3): 717-734. 2007.What Am I? is so-called because of its focus on Descartes’ primal question in the mind-body realm and his primal answer, viz. “a man”. The question and answer are primal in both senses of the adjective: they come first, early in meditation II, when the topic is broached for the first time; and, in my view of Descartes, they are also the most fundamental question and answer. There are other questions—many many other questions—Descartes raises about the mind-body problem. Some came to substitute f…Read more
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42In Everything in Its Right Place, Joseph Almog develops the unitarian and universalist metaphysics of Spinoza
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37RepliesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (3): 717-734. 2007.Lucky is the writer whose commentators combine perceptiveness and grace. My two commentators delved deeply into the framework I assume in WAI. Where they see gaps, they elegantly nudge the discussion towards needed extensions/clarifications. Both use the monograph to launch searching metaphysical questions—about method and content. I will take up matters of method first, then turn to specific questions in the interpretation of Descartes and the metaphysics of essence/necessity/conceivability.
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25David Kaplan: the man at workIn Joseph Almog & Paolo Leonardi (eds.), The philosophy of David Kaplan, Oxford University Press. pp. 1. 2010.
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23Is Natural Semantics Possible?—Ordinary English, Formal Deformations-cum-Reformations and the Limits of Model TheoryIn Hans van Ditmarsch & Gabriel Sandu (eds.), Jaakko Hintikka on Knowledge and Game Theoretical Semantics, Springer. pp. 49-108. 2018.The essay is dedicated to the memory of Jaakko Hintikka and Hilary Putnam, two logically inventive philosophers who, nonetheless, showed deep judgment in bringing to the fore the limits of reducing natural languages to formal languages, via the use of logical forms and model theory. Writing in parallel ecologies, the two proposed rather similar “limitative” theses about the popular logical-form-cum-model theory methodology.
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22Perhaps (?), New logical foundations are needed for quantum mechanicsLogique Et Analyse 21 (82): 251. 1978.
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14Introduction to the Volume “Naming and Necessity: A 40th‐Year Anniversary”Theoria 88 (2): 276-277. 2022.Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 2, Page 276-277, April 2022.
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7Having In Mind: The Philosophy of Keith Donnellan (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.Keith Donnellan of UCLA is one of the founding fathers of contemporary philosophy of language, along with David Kaplan and Saul Kripke. Donnellan was and is an extremely creative thinker whose insights reached into metaphysics, action theory, the history of philosophy, and of course the philosophy of mind and language. This volume collects the best critical essays on Donnellan's forty-year body of work. The pieces by such noted philosophers as Tyler Burge, David Kaplan, and John Perry, discuss D…Read more
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6Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind (edited book)Oup Usa. 2012.This volume collects Keith Donnellan's key contributions dating from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, along with a substantive introduction by the editor Joseph Almog, which disseminates the work to a new audience and for posterity.
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3The Puzzle That Never Was—Referential MechanicsIn Richard Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 21-34. 2012.
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1The Vernacular and the Omniscient Observer of HistoryIn Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout (eds.), Descriptions and beyond, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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Descartes' Punctum Archimedis: The Primality and Unity of Being, the Derivateness of the General DualitiesIn Hemmo Laiho & Arto Repo (eds.), DE NATURA RERUM - Scripta in honorem professoris Olli Koistinen sexagesimum annum complentis, University of Turku. pp. 25-58. 2016.
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Dualistic materialismIn Robert C. Koons & George Bealer (eds.), The Waning of Materialism: New Essays, Oxford University Press. 2009.