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129Pronouns as VariablesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 72 (3). 2006.University of California, Santa Barbara.
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155About AboutnessEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy 3 (2): 59-76. 2007.A Russellian notion of what it is for a proposition to be “directly about” something in particular is defined. Various strong and weak, and mediate and immediate, Russellian notions of general aboutness are then defined in terms of Russellian direct aboutness. In particular, a proposition is about something iff the proposition is either directly, or strongly indirectly, about that thing. A competing Russellian account, due to Kaplan, is criticized through a distinction between knowledge by descr…Read more
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257Some Highs and Lows of Hylomorphism: On a Paradox about Property AbstractionPhilosophical Studies 177 (6): 1549-1563. 2020.We defend hylomorphism against Maegan Fairchild’s purported proof of its inconsistency. We provide a deduction of a contradiction from SH+, which is the combination of “simple hylomorphism” and an innocuous premise. We show that the deduction, reminiscent of Russell’s Paradox, is proof-theoretically valid in classical higher-order logic and invokes an impredicatively defined property. We provide a proof that SH+ is nevertheless consistent in a free higher-order logic. It is shown that the unrest…Read more
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