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62Depiction and IntentionIn Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures, Open Book Publishers. pp. 51-66. 2014.This chapter defends intentionalism about pictorial representation
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1254Two Conceptions of SimilarityPhilosophical Quarterly 68 (270): 21-37. 2018.There are at least two traditional conceptions of numerical degree of similarity. According to the first, the degree of dissimilarity between two particulars is their distance apart in a metric space. According to the second, the degree of similarity between two particulars is a function of the number of (sparse) properties they have in common and not in common. This paper argues that these two conceptions are logically independent, but philosophically inconsonant.
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65Symbol SystemsIn Resemblance and Representation: An Essay in the Philosophy of Pictures, Open Book Publishers. pp. 85-98. 2014.
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411Maps 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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906Depiction 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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Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |
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Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
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