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    Are contingent facts a myth?
    Analysis 70 (3). 2010.
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    Is what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible worlds, philosophers need to take this analogy seriously. Adriane Rini and Max Cresswell exhibit, in an easy step-by-step manner, the logical structure of temporal and modal discourse, and show that every t…Read more
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    Contingent facts: comments on Mellor's reply
    Analysis 71 (1): 69-72. 2011.
    (No abstract is available for this citation).
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    Is what could have happened but never did as real as what did happen? What did happen, but isn't happening now, happened at another time. Analogously, one can say that what could have happened happens in another possible world. Whatever their views about the reality of such things as possible worlds, philosophers need to take this analogy seriously. Adriane Rini and Max Cresswell exhibit, in an easy step-by-step manner, the logical structure of temporal and modal discourse, and show that every t…Read more
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    Contingent facts: comments on Mellor's reply
    Analysis 71 (1): 69-72. 2011.
    As a first comment it should not be taken that we have any argument against the consistency of Mellor’s actualist version of the B-theory. Not only have we no argument; we hold that Mellor’s position is consistent. As far as logic goes we believe that you can translate A into B, and B into A. Mellor takes a quotation from our article as endorsing the policy of doing for time just what you do for modality, and vice versa, and it is true that you can take our sentence that way. It is also true tha…Read more
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    Hupo in the Prior Analytics: a note on Disamis XLL
    History and Philosophy of Logic 21 (4): 259-264. 2000.
    This is a brief note that looks at the problem presented by the traditional rendering of the modal syllogism Disamis XLL. In two recent articles, I argue that we should not attribute Disamis XLL to Aristotle. The purpose of this note is to provide textual support for my claim
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    The logic of Logic and the Basis of Ethics
    Synthese 193 (11): 3449-3457. 2016.
    What is it that is doing the real work in Prior’s 1949 book Logic and the Basis of Ethics? As Prior’s title announces, it seems that the answer is logic. But what exactly does this mean to Prior?
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    Is There a Modal Syllogistic?
    Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 39 (4): 554-572. 1998.
    Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been described as "incoherent," "a failure," "a realm of darkness." Even the gentler critics claim that it is inconsistent. I offer an interpretation according to which validity in the modal syllogistic is always obtained by substituting modal terms in the nonmodal syllogistic, and restricting the principles of modal conversion. In this paper I discuss the apodeictic syllogistic, showing that the restrictions I propose are powerful enough to do all the work Aris…Read more
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    All the way through An.Pr. A9 11, Aristotle gives a new and separate proof of each modal syllogism. He does not take the mixed syllogisms as entirely trivial and obvious. He tries to explain them and to establish their validity. And that is where ...
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    Modal Propositions in Aristotle's Syllogistic
    Dissertation, University of Massachusetts Amherst. 1997.
    The dissertation is an investigation into the structure of Aristotle's modal propositions through careful attention to the text of the Prior Analytics. I take account not only of recent attempts to formalize Aristotle's modal syllogistic but also of the discussion that Aristotle himself provides about modal statements. I provide evidence that his modal propositions are to be construed in a de re manner and then go on to investigate the problems raised by a de re analysis, particularly those prob…Read more
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    Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap: The Story of Necessity (edited book)
    Cambridge University Press. 2016.
    Interest in the metaphysics and logic of possible worlds goes back at least as far as Aristotle, but few books address the history of these important concepts. This volume offers new essays on the theories about the logical modalities held by leading philosophers from Aristotle in ancient Greece to Rudolf Carnap in the twentieth century. The story begins with an illuminating discussion of Aristotle's views on the connection between logic and metaphysics, continues through the Stoic and mediaeval…Read more
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    Lloyd and the Logicians: The Analogies in our Reasoning
    Australasian Philosophical Review 1 (3): 259-268. 2017.
    ABSTRACTLloyd argues for the value of analogical reasoning in helping to open cross-cultural perspectives in philosophy. In doing so he aims some strong criticism at the Western analytic philosophical tradition. Yet Lloyd's message is one which logicians working within the Western analytic tradition can and do embrace.
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    Aristotle’s modal syllogistic is his study of patterns of reasoning about necessity and possibility. Many scholars think the modal syllogistic is incoherent, a ‘realm of darkness’. Others think it is coherent, but devise complicated formal modellings to mimic Aristotle’s results. This volume provides a simple interpretation of Aristotle’s modal syllogistic using standard predicate logic. Rini distinguishes between red terms, such as ‘horse’, ‘plant’ or ‘man’, which name things in virtue of featu…Read more
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    Seeing the Trends in the Data
    In Katrina Hutchison & Fiona Jenkins (eds.), Women in Philosophy: What Needs to Change?, Oup Usa. pp. 231. 2013.
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    Ebert, Theodor/Nortmann, Ulrich. 2007. Aristoteles: Analytica priora, Buch 1. Berlin: Akademie (924 pages, EUR 98.00. ISBN 978-3-05-004427-9) (review)
    with Helga Meier and Kristina Zuelicke
    History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 16 (1): 394-397. 2013.
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  • Do We Have Duties to Our Friends? Nicomachean Ethics Books 8 and 9
    In Dirk Baltzly, Dougal Blyth & Harold Tarrant (eds.), Pleasure and Power, Virtues and Vices, Prudentia Supplement. pp. 263-278. 2001.
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    Logique Et Analyse 50. 2007.
  • Modal Notions: Perception and Testimony as Data Providers
    Third Workshop in the Philosophy of Information 77-79. 2012.
  • On a Misapplication of the World-Time Parallel
    with Mj Cresswell
    Logique Et Analyse 52 (206): 125-130. 2009.