-
179A consistent way with paradoxPhilosophical Studies 144 (3). 2009.Consideration of a paradox originally discovered by John Buridan provides a springboard for a general solution to paradoxes within the Liar family. The solution rests on a philosophical defence of truth-value-gaps and is consistent (non-dialetheist), avoids ‘revenge’ problems, imports no ad hoc assumptions, is not applicable to only a proper subset of the semantic paradoxes and implies no restriction of the expressive capacities of language.
-
11III-A Unified Solution to Some ParadoxesProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 100 (1): 53-74. 2000.
-
34To Let: Unsuccessful Stipulation, Bad Proof, and ParadoxAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 50 (1): 93. 2013.Letting is a common practice in mathematics. For example, we let x be the sum of the first n integers and, after a short proof, conclude that x = n(n+1)/2; we let J be the point where the bisectors of two of the angles of a triangle intersect and prove that this coincides with H, the point at which another pair of bisectors of the angles of that triangle intersect. Karl Weierstrass's colleagues, in an attempt to solve optimization problems, stipulated that the minimum area for a triangle with a …Read more
-
10Humor and HarmSorites 3 27-42. 1995.For familiar reasons, stereotyping is believed to be irresponsible and offensive. Yet the use of stereotypes in humor is widespread. Particularly offensive are thought to be sexual and racial stereotypes, yet it is just these that figure particularly prominently in jokes. In certain circumstances it is unquestionably wrong to make jokes that employ such stereotypes. Some writers have made the much stronger claim that in all circumstances it is wrong to find such jokes funny; in other words that …Read more
-
12Review of béla Szabados, Ludwig Wittgenstein on Race, Gender and Cultural Identity (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (8). 2010.
-
22Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of MathematicsPhilosophical Quarterly 27 (109): 370. 1977.
-
Pasquale Frascolla, Wittgenstein's Philosophy of MathematicsPhilosophical Investigations 19 337-341. 1996.
-
11Brevity (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2013.Brevity in conversation is a window to the workings of the mind. It is both a multifaceted topic of deep philosophical importance and a phenomenon that serves as a testing ground for theories in linguistics, psycholinguistics and computer modeling. Speakers use elliptical constructions and exploit salient features of the conversational environment, a process of pragmatic enrichment, so as to pack a great deal into a few words. They also tailor their words to theirparticular conversational partne…Read more
-
8Goldstein invites the philosophical beginner to think hard about issues ranging from patriotism and racism to artificial intelligence and the mind, from love and fidelity to free will and mortality, taking an interdisciplinary approach.
-
98IntroductionThe Monist 88 (1): 3-10. 2005.According to some commentators, Wittgenstein’s Tractatus is all one big joke: we plough through the text trying to extract the sense out of each spare and heroic proposition, only to be told at the end, that anyone who understands the author will realize that all of his propositions are nonsensical and so are not even propositions. The whole work is a kind of hoax; the readers are ridiculed, but, with luck, will eventually have to laugh when they come to recognize that what they had taken for de…Read more
-
43The Form of The Third Man ArgumentApeiron 12 (2). 1978.Our interpretation of the "parmenides" 132a1 - 132b2 has the following features. (i) it stresses that the third man argument is an infinite regress and (ii) notes its epistemological thrust. (iii) a faithful translation of the last line of the argument reads "and no longer will each of the forms be for you one but each is infinite in multitude." parmenides' point is that each form, which socrates believed to be complete (one), turns out to be an unbounded, incompletable series of subforms useles…Read more
-
34Strengthened paradoxesAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (3). 1980.This Article does not have an abstract
-
100A non-theistic cosmology and natural historyAnalysis 66 (3): 256-260. 2006.The plausibility of the theory of evolution depends on abandoning the assumption of a unique 'big bang' ex nihilo marking the beginning of the universe.
-
34Kripke, Pierre and ConstantinescuThe Reasoner 1 (5): 4-5. 2007.Refutes Cristian Constantinescu's proposed solution of Kripke's puzzle about belief.
-
University of KentRegular Faculty
University of St. Andrews
PhD, 1977