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86'Obviously propositions are nothing': Russell and the logical form of belief reportsIn Georg Peter & Gerhard Preyer (eds.), Logical Form and Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 409--420. 2002.
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63A Non‐Alethic Approach to Faultless DisagreementDialectica 69 (4): 517-550. 2015.This paper motivates and describes a non-alethic approach to faultless disagreement involving predicates of personal taste. In section 1 I describe problems faced by Sundell's indexicalist approach, and MacFarlane's relativist approach. In section 2 I develop an alternative, non-alethic, approach. The non-alethic approach is broadly expressivist in that it endorses both the negative semantic thesis that simple sentences containing PPTs do not semantically encode complete propositions and the pos…Read more
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58Varieties of the generality constraintManuscrito 34 (2): 397-434. 2011.Since its introduction by Evans , the generality constraint has been invoked by various philosophers for different purposes. Our purpose here is, first, to clarify what precisely the GC states by way of an interpretive framework, the GC Schema, and second, to demonstrate in terms of this framework some problems that arise if one invokes the GC without clearly specifying an appropriate interpretation. By utilizing the GC Schema these sorts of problems can be avoided, and we thus propose it as a t…Read more
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32Review of Michael O'Rourke, Corey Washington (eds.), Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (2). 2008.
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181Is even thought compositional?Philosophical Studies 157 (2): 299-322. 2012.Fodor (Mind Lang 16:1–15, 2001 ) endorses the mixed view that thought, yet not language, is compositional. That is, Fodor accepts the arguments of radical pragmatics that language is not compositional, but he claims these arguments do not apply to thought. My purpose here is to evaluate this mixed position: Assuming that the radical pragmaticists are right that language is not compositional, what arguments can be provided in support of the claim that thought is compositional? Before such argumen…Read more
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