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50Tichý on Kripke on A Posteriori NecessitiesPhilosophical Studies 92 (1/2). 1998.In Tichy's influential attack, a number of egregious errors are attributed to Kripke's seminal distinction of epistemic and metaphysical dimensions in meaning. I argue that Tichy's work is based on important misunderstandings. In particular Tichy attributes to Kripke the mistaken view that it is propositions, that is sets of worlds, which are the proper object of the appellation "a priori" and "a posteriori". I show that this is a mistaken attribution. Further, I argue that propositions cannot b…Read more
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2“Group Blame, Responsibility & Guilt: An Exercise in Social Ontology”Humanitas Asiatica 2 39-58. 2001.
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70Information and Veridicality: Information Processing and the Bar-Hillel/Carnap ParadoxPhilosophy of Science 83 (1): 131-151. 2016.Floridi’s Theory of Strongly Semantic Information posits the Veridicality Thesis. One motivation is that it can serve as a foundation for information-based epistemology being an alternative to the tripartite theory of knowledge. However, the Veridicality thesis is false, if ‘information’ is to play an explanatory role in human cognition. Another motivation is avoiding the so-called Bar-Hillel/Carnap paradox. But this paradox only seems paradoxical, if ‘information’ and ‘informativeness’ are syno…Read more
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15“Accounting for commitments: A priori knowledge, Ontology and logical entailments”In Stephen Hetherington (ed.), Aspects of Knowing: Epistemological Essays, Elsevier. pp. 35. 2006.
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58The problems with double-indexing accounts of the a prioriPhilosophical Studies 118 (1-2): 67-81. 2004.Inspired by two-dimensional modal logic, some have sought to provide analyses of the notion of the contingent a priori which identify the a priori with truths which have a necessary diagonal. I argue that these analyses fail insofar as they miss the crucial epistemic aspect of the a priori. Augmenting these analyses with specifically epistemic accounts might be possible, but the interest would then reside in these epistemic accounts of the a priori and not in the formal models.
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Biology |
General Philosophy of Science |