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31A World of States of Affairs (review)Dialogue 38 (3): 662-663. 1999.Evidently, David Armstrong is not one for misleading titles. In his A World of States of Affairs, he argues for the claim that the world is entirely composed of states of affairs. Much of the book is spent on the deeply worthwhile enterprise of arguing that this states-of-affairs ontology is sufficient to provide truthmakers for all contingent, all necessary, and all modal truths. This is a formidable task for a minimalist factualist ontology. The ontology is factualist since only states of affa…Read more
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31Logic by Laurence Goldstein, Andrew Brennan, Max Deutsch and Joe Y.F. LauPhilosophical Books 47 (3): 272-273. 2006.
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26Waltman, Max. Pornography: The Politics of Legal ChallengesEthics 133 (4): 653-658. 2023.This a review of Max Waltman's _Pornography: The Politics of Legal Challenges_.
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21Pr\'ecis for Just Words: On Speech and Hidden HarRes Philosophica 98 (3): 509-511. 2021.This is a summary of the book _Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm (OUP 2019)_. We all know that speech can be harmful. But what are the harms and how exactly does the speech in question brings those harms about? Just Words identifies a previously overlooked mechanism by which speech constitutes, rather than merely causes, harm. The author argues that speech constitutes harm when it enacts a norm that prescribes that harm. She illustrates this theory by considering many categories of speech i…Read more
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18Book Review:Reading Putnam Peter Clark, Bob Hale (review)Philosophy of Science 65 (2): 372-. 1998.
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13New Applications, Hepeating, and Discrimination: Response to Anderson, Horisk, and WatsonRes Philosophica 98 (3): 537-544. 2021.This article is the author's response to critical essays by Luvell Anderson, Claire Horisk, and Lori Watson. The legal concept of discrimination, the sneaky communicative functioning of joke-telling, and the phenomenon of hepeating are each discussed.
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Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Law |
Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality |