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Experience and knowledgeIn Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Perceptual experience, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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25Legal Abortion Limit Raised up to 24 Weeks of Gestation for Substantial Foetal Anomalies or for Rape Victims: a Welcome Step for Women and Health Providers in IndiaAsian Bioethics Review 14 (1): 5-8. 2021.
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9TruthIn Lou Goble (ed.), The Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic, Blackwell. 2017.The concept of truth serves in logic not only as an instrument but also as an object of study. Eubulides of Miletus (fl. fourth century BCE), a Megarian logician, discovered the paradox known as ‘the Liar,’ and, ever since his discovery, logicians down the ages ‐ Aristotle and Chrysippus, John Buridan and William Heytesbury, and Alfred Tarski and Saul Kripke, to mention just a few ‐ have tried to understand the puzzling behavior of the concept of truth.
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68A fixed point theorem for the weak Kleene valuation schemeJournal of Philosophical Logic 13 (2). 1984.
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103Discussion of James Pryor's “The Merits of Incoherence”Analytic Philosophy 59 (1): 142-148. 2018.
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71The Liar: An Essay on Truth and Circularity. Jon Barwise, John EtchemendyPhilosophy of Science 56 (4): 697-709. 1989.Some criticisms are offered of Barwise and Etchemendy's theory of truth, the principal one being that it violates a feature of truth called “supervenience”.
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Experience and knowledgeIn Tamar Gendler & John Hawthorne (eds.), Perceptual experience, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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26Foundationalism and empirical reason: On the rational significance of observationPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 108 (1): 177-202. 2023.A foundationalist account of our empirical thinking divides propositions we accept into two classes, basic and derivative, and sees the warrant of derivative propositions as accruing to them through their derivation from basic propositions. Such an account needs to answer two questions: which propositions are basic, and whence do basic propositions acquire their warrant? A natural and ancient answer to these questions is that basic propositions are observational and that these propositions gain …Read more
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113Discussion of Anil Gupta's “Outline of an Account of Experience”Analytic Philosophy 59 (1): 75-88. 2018.
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24Overthrow the Orthodoxy! Replies to Hill, Titus, and SosaPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 104 (1): 256-270. 2022.Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 104, Issue 1, Page 256-270, January 2022.
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30Précis of Conscious Experience: A Logical Inquiry#Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 104 (1): 232-235. 2022.Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 104, Issue 1, Page 232-235, January 2022.
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18A critique of deflationismIn J. C. Beall & B. Armour-Garb (eds.), Deflationary Truth, Open Court. pp. 199. 2005.
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15Postscript to 'A Critique of Deflationism'In J. C. Beall & B. Armour-Garb (eds.), Deflationary Truth, Open Court. pp. 227. 2005.
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42Adam Marushak on the hypothetical givenPhilosophical Issues 30 (1): 167-174. 2020.Adam Marushak raises a dilemma for the proponents of the hypothetical given. On one of its horns, the proponents are said to be committed to rationalism; and on the other horn, to skepticism. I argue, in response, that even if we grant that the arguments of both horns are sound, the commitments incurred are light and unproblematic. I argue also that the dilemma is based on a reading of the hypothetical that, though valuable, needs to be refined in light of certain distinctions. These distinction…Read more
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47Truth or Consequences: Essays in Honor of Nuel Belnap (edited book)Kluwer Academic Publishers. 1990.This collection of essays was compiled for the occasion of Nuel Belnap's 60th birthday.
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34Conscious Experience: A Logical InquiryHarvard University Press. 2019.This book aims to offer an account of conscious experience and of concepts that help us understand empirical reasoning and empirical dialectic. The account offered possesses, it is claimed, two virtues. First, it provides great theoretical freedom. It allows the theoretician freedom to radically reconceive the world. The theoretician may, for example, begin with the conception that colors are genuine qualities of physical bodies and may, in light of empirical findings, shift to the conception th…Read more
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33Experience and its rational significance I: Contributions to a debatePhilosophical Issues 29 (1): 324-337. 2019.Philosophical Issues, EarlyView.
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17Experience and its rational significance II: Replies to Brewer, McDowell, and SiegelPhilosophical Issues 29 (1): 378-389. 2019.Philosophical Issues, EarlyView.
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24Greg N. Carlson. Generic terms and generic sentences. Journal of philosophical logic, vol. 11 , pp. 145–181Journal of Symbolic Logic 50 (3): 858-859. 1985.
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55In praise of a logic of definitions that tolerates ω‐inconsistencyPhilosophical Issues 28 (1): 176-195. 2018.I argue that a general logic of definitions must tolerate ω‐inconsistency. I present a semantical scheme, S, under which some definitions imply ω‐inconsistent sets of sentences. I draw attention to attractive features of this scheme, and I argue that S yields the minimal general logic of definitions. I conclude that any acceptable general logic should permit definitions that generate ω‐inconsistency. This conclusion gains support from the application of S to the theory of truth.
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24M. Chirimuuta's Adverbialism about ColorPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 95 (1): 229-235. 2017.M. Chirimuuta's Outside Color is a rich and lovely book. I enjoyed reading it and benefitted from reflecting on its provocative ideas. I begin by briefly placing the book's principal thesis in its historical context, and I go on to reflect on two objections that might be lodged against this thesis.
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5Knowledge Management's Social Dimension: Lessons from Nucor SteelIn Laurence Prusak & Eric Matson (eds.), Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning: A Reader, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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Human Cognition: A Multidisciplinary PerspectiveIndian Philosophical Quarterly 30 (2): 327-346. 2003.
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71Replies to Selim Berker and Karl SchaferPhilosophical Studies 152 (1). 2011.I respond to six objections, raised by Selim Berker and Karl Schafer, against the theory offered in my Empiricism and Experience: (1) that the theory needs a problematic notion of subjective character of experience; (2) that the transition from the hypothetical to the categorical fails because of a logical difficulty; (3) that the constraints imposed on admissible views are too weak; (4) that the theory does not deserve the label 'empiricism'; (5) that the motivations provided for the Reliabilit…Read more
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