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420Maps and MeaningJournal of Philosophical Research 35 123-128. 2010.It's possible to understand an infinite number of novel maps. I argue that Roberto Casati and Achille Varzi's compositional semantics of maps cannot explain this possibility, because it requires an infinite number of semantic primitives. So the semantics of maps is puzzlingly different from the semantics of language.
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945Depiction and conventionDialectica 62 (3): 335-348. 2008.By defining both depictive and linguistic representation as kinds of symbol system, Nelson Goodman attempts to undermine the platitude that, whereas linguistic representation is mediated by convention, depiction is mediated by resemblance. I argue that Goodman is right to draw a strong analogy between the two kinds of representation, but wrong to draw the counterintuitive conclusion that depiction is not mediated by resemblance.
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889Fact, Fiction, and FantasyMidwest Studies in Philosophy 39 (1): 46-57. 2015.This paper argues: (1) All knowledge from fiction is from imagination (2) All knowledge from imagination is modal knowledge (3) So, all knowledge from fiction is modal knowledge Moreover, some knowledge is from fiction, so (1)-(3) are non-vacuously true.
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464Philosophical Perspectives on Depiction (review)Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90 (1). 2012.Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Volume 90, Issue 1, Page 187-189, March 2012
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681Defining depictionBritish Journal of Aesthetics 49 (2): 143-157. 2009.It is a platitude that whereas language is mediated by convention, depiction is mediated by resemblance. But this platitude may be attacked on the grounds that resemblance is either insufficient for or incidental to depictive representation. I defend common sense from this attack by using Grice's analysis of meaning to specify the non-incidental role of resemblance in depictive representation.
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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |
Areas of Interest
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
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Depiction |