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7Martin Peterson, Ethics in the Gray Area: A Gradualist Theory of Right and Wrong (review)Ethics 134 (4): 609-614. 2024.
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168The omniscient speaker puzzleSynthese 203 (65): 1-16. 2024.The epistemicist theory aims to explain ignorance due to vagueness by semantic plasticity: the shiftiness of intensions across close possible worlds resulting from shiftiness in usage. This explanation is challenged by the Omniscient Speaker Puzzle (Sennet in Philos Stud 161(2):273–285, 2012). Suppose that an omniscient speaker, Barney, who knows all the facts about usage and how these facts determine the intensions of expressions, cooks up a scheme to stabilise the intension of a normally seman…Read more
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37Defining DefinitenessErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 10 (n/a). 2023.Epistemicism associates vagueness with ignorance produced by semantic plasticity: the shiftiness of intensions in our language resulting from small changes in usage. The recent literature (Caie 2012; Magidor 2018; Yli-Vakkuri 2016) points to a missing piece in the epistemicist theory of vagueness, namely a clear account of the semantics of the definiteness operator Δ. The fundamentals of the epistemicist theory are well understood. However, the technical work of defining the definiteness operato…Read more
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