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15The Liar Paradox and MetaphysicsIn Jurgis Skilters & Matti Eklund (eds.), The Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, University of Latvia Press. 2006.
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3Finzione, indifferenza e ontologiaRivista di Estetica 32 (32): 71-92. 2006.1 Introduzione Quando i filosofi fanno affermazioni del tipo “gli A sono finzioni”, il più delle volte ciò che dicono è ambiguo in un modo cruciale. Secondo una certa lettura, ciò che viene detto ha chiare implicazioni ontologiche: non ci sono, in realtà, cose come gli F. Ma c’è anche un modo diverso, non ontologico, di leggere tali affermazioni: come se dicessero semplicemente che le A-asserzioni sono avanzate, di norma, in uno spirito finzionale. Chiaramente, si può sostenere che normalment...
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Paradoxes and the Foundations of Semantics and MetaphysicsDissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 2000.Numerous philosophical problems, otherwise quite different in character, are of the following form. Certain claims which seem not only obviously true, but even constitutive of the meanings of the expressions employed, can be shown to lead to absurdity when taken together. All such problems can justly be called paradoxes. The paradoxes I examine are the liar paradox, the sorites paradox, and the personal identity paradox posed by the fission problem. ;I argue that in these cases, the claims that …Read more
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Paradox: Logical, Cognitive and Communicative Aspects (Proceedings of the First International Symposium of Cognition, Logic and Communication) (edited book)University of Latvia Press. 2006.
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The picture of reality as an amorphous lumpIn Theodore Sider, John Hawthorne & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), Contemporary debates in metaphysics, Blackwell. 2008.
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A Vindication of Tarski's Claim About the Liar ParadoxIn Timothy Childers & Ondrej Majer (eds.), The Logica Yearbook, Filosofia. 2001.
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Being Metaphysically Unsettled: Barnes and Williams on Metaphysical Indeterminacy and VaguenessIn Karen Bennett & Dean W. Zimmerman (eds.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Volume 6, Oxford University Press Uk. 2011.
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Normative propertiesIn A. R. J. Fisher & Anna-Sofia Maurin (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Properties, Routledge. 2024.
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