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404“The king of France is bald” reconsidered: a case against YabloPhilosophical Studies 169 (2): 173-181. 2014.Stephen Yablo has argued for metaontological antirealism: he believes that the sentences claiming or denying the existence of numbers (or other abstract entities or mereological sums) are inapt for truth valuation, because the reference failure of a numerical singular term (or a singular term for an abstract entity or a mereological sum) would not produce a truth value gap in any sentence containing that term. At the same time, Yablo believes that nothing similar applies to singular terms that a…Read more
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158Montaigne and the plagueIn Nenad Cekić (ed.), Етика и истина у доба кризе, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philosophy. pp. 111-124. 2021.In sixteenth century the great plague ravaged the city of Bordeaux, with the death toll of fourteen thousand. Michel de Montaigne witnessed many deaths and upsetting scenes. In this paper, I shall investigate how his experiences during epidemic affected his thoughts on death in the Essais.
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98Content Extraction, Ontological Mootness and Nominalism: Difficulties on the Easy RoadErkenntnis 1-13. 2020.In his latest book Aboutness, Stephen Yablo has proposed a new ‘easy road’ nominalist strategy: instead of engaging in the hard work of paraphrasing a scientific theory which presupposes numbers in a nominalistically acceptable way, nominalists are, according to Yablo, entitled to accept the theory as true, while rejecting the existence of numbers, if from the theory’s content the presupposition that there are numbers can be subtracted away, yielding thus a number-free content remainder. Perfect…Read more
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55Elementi vremena i njegov tok-Miloš Arsenijević: Vreme i vremena, Dereta, Beograd, 2003Theoria 49 (3): 111-123. 2006.
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25Tuomas E. Tahko, An Introduction to Metametaphysics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), 258 pp (review)Prolegomena 15 (2): 215-219. 2016.Review of Tuomas E. Tahko, An Introduction to Metametaphysics, 258 pp.
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18Future Contingencies and the Arrow and Flow of Time in a Non-Deterministic World According to the Temporal-Modal System TMLogic and Logical Philosophy 1-53. forthcoming.It is shown how the temporal-modal system of events TM (axiomatized in Appendix) allows for the avoidance of the logical determinism without the rejection of the principle of bivalence. The point is that the temporal and the modal parts of TM are so inter-related that modalities are in-the-real-world-inherent modalities independently of whether they concern actual or only possible events. Though formulated in a tenseless language, whose interpretation does not require the assumption of tense fac…Read more
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17Content Extraction, Ontological Mootness and Nominalism: Difficulties on the Easy RoadErkenntnis 87 (5): 2329-2341. 2022.In his latest book Aboutness, Stephen Yablo has proposed a new ‘easy road’ nominalist strategy: instead of engaging in the hard work of paraphrasing a scientific theory which presupposes numbers in a nominalistically acceptable way, nominalists are, according to Yablo, entitled to accept the theory as true, while rejecting the existence of numbers, if from the theory’s content the presupposition that there are numbers can be subtracted away, yielding thus a number-free content remainder. Perfect…Read more
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11Transitivity and Humeanism about LawsCroatian Journal of Philosophy 23 (68): 139-154. 2023.Humeanism about laws has been famously accused of the explanatory circularity by David Armstrong and Tim Maudlin, since the Humean laws hold in virtue of their instances and, at the same time, scientifically explain those very instances. Barry Loewer argued that the circularity challenge rests on an equivocation: in his view, once the metaphysical explanation is properly distinguished from the scientific explanation, the circularity vanishes. However, Marc Lange restored the circularity by appea…Read more