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310Logical groundsReview of Symbolic Logic (1): 1-29. 2013.I identify a notion of logical grounding, clarify it, and show how it can be used (i) to characterise various consequence relations, and (ii) to give a precise syntactic account of the notion of “groundedness” at work in the literature on the paradoxes of truth.
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207(Finean) essence and (priorean) modalityDialectica 61 (1). 2007.In Fine 1994, Kit Fine challenges the view that the notion of essence is to be understood in terms of the metaphysical modalities, and he argues that it is not essence which reduces to metaphysical modality, but rather metaphysical modality which reduces to essence. In this paper I put forward a modal account of essence and argue that it is immune from Fine’s objections. The account presupposes a non‐standard, independently motivated conception of the metaphysical modalities which I dub Priorean…Read more
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220Presentism without PresentnessThought: A Journal of Philosophy 4 (1): 19-27. 2015.We argue that presentism, understood as a view about time and existence, can perspicuously be defined in opposition to all other familiar contenders without appeal to any notion of presentness or cognate notions such as concreteness. Given recent worries about the suitability of such notions to cut much metaphysical ice, this should be welcomed by presentism's defenders. We also show that, irrespective of its sparse ideology, the proposed formulation forestalls any deviant interpretation at odds…Read more
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762Ontological dependencePhilosophy Compass 3 (5): 1013-1032. 2008.'Ontological dependence' is a term of philosophical jargon which stands for a rich family of properties and relations, often taken to be among the most fundamental ontological properties and relations. Notions of ontological dependence are usually thought of as 'carving reality at its ontological joints', and as marking certain forms of ontological 'non-self-sufficiency'. The use of notions of dependence goes back as far as Aristotle's characterization of substances, and these notions are still …Read more
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67Genevan Ruminations on The Metaphysics of KnowledgeDialectica 65 (1): 117-123. 2011.A collection of questions collated from a book symposium on Keith Hossack's "The Metaphysics of Knowledge" (OUP, 2007).
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25"Comments on Achille Varzi's" Change, Temporal Parts, and the Argument from Vagueness"Dialectica 59 (4): 499-502. 2005.
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71Adequacy Results for Some Priorean Modal Propositional LogicsNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 40 (2): 236-249. 1999.Standard possible world semantics for propositional modal languages ignore truth-value gaps. However, simple considerations suggest that it should not be so. In Section 1, I identify what I take to be a correct truth-clause for necessity under the assumption that some possible worlds are incomplete (i.e., "at" which some propositions lack a truth-value). In Section 2, I build a world semantics, the semantics of TV-models, for standard modal propositional languages, which agrees with the truth-cl…Read more
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309Plus on monte plus on s’amuse : IntroductionLes ateliers de l'éthique/The Ethics Forum 9 (2): 149-151. 2014.Fabrice Correia ,Christine Tappolet
Genève, GE, Switzerland