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15Logical Forms: An Introduction to Philosophical LogicPhilosophical Quarterly 42 (167): 243. 1992.Logical Forms explains both the detailed problems involved in finding logical forms and also the theoretical underpinnings of philosophical logic. In this revised edition, exercises are integrated throughout the book. The result is a genuinely interactive introduction which engages the reader in developing the argument. Each chapter concludes with updated notes to guide further reading
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8Russell on constructions and fictionsTheoria 46 (1): 19-36. 1980.Russell says that logical constructions are fictions. Does this show that he took them not to be real things?
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7Can Rational Dialetheism Be Refuted By Considerations about Negation and Denial?ProtoSociology 10 216-229. 1997.Rational dialetheism is the view that for some contradictions, it is rational to believe that they are true. The view, associated with the work of among others, Graham Priest, looks as if it must lead to absurd consequences, and the present paper is an unsuccessful attempt to find them. In particular, I suggest that there is no non-question-begging account of acceptance, denial and negation which can be brought to bear against the rational dialetheist. Finally, I consider the prospect of attacki…Read more
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23What logic should we think with?Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 51 1-17. 2002.Logic ought to guide our thinking. It is better, more rational, more intelligent to think logically than to think illogically. Illogical thought leads to bad judgment and error. In any case, if logic had no role to play as a guide to thought, why should we bother with it?The somewhat naïve opinions of the previous paragraph are subject to attack from many sides. It may be objected that an activity does not count as thinking at all unless it is at least minimally logical, so logic is constitutive…Read more
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53A puzzle about how things lookIn Mary Margaret McCabe & Mark Textor (eds.), Perspectives on Perception, De Gruyter. 2007.Differently illuminated, things in one sense look different, but in another sense look the same.
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6The Same NameErkenntnis 80 (2): 195-214. 2015.When are two tokens of a name tokens of the same name? According to this paper, the answer is a matter of the historical connections between the tokens. For each name, there is a unique originating event, and subsequent tokens are tokens of that name only if they derive in an appropriate way from that originating event. The conditions for a token being a token of a given name are distinct from the conditions for preservation of the reference of a name. Hence a name may change its reference. Defe…Read more
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10Semantic Theory and Grammatical StructureAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 54 (1). 1980.
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5Jody Azzouni , Talking about Nothing: Numbers, Hallucinations and Fictions . Reviewed byPhilosophy in Review 32 (3): 154-157. 2012.
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