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70Double Up on HeavenThought: A Journal of Philosophy 4 (4): 213-214. 2015.This paper describes a scenario in which a person in his afterlife will with probability 1 spend twice as many days in Heaven as in Hell, but, even though Heaven is as good as Hell is bad, his expected utility for any given day in that afterlife is negative
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14The Temperature Paradox and Meaning PostulatesLinguistic Inquiry 47 695-705. 2016.Lasersohn has argued that the use of Russell's analysis of the definite determiner in Montague Grammar, which is responsible for giving the correct prediction in the case of the Temperature Paradox, is also responsible for giving the wrong prediction in the case of the Gupta Syllogism. In this paper I argue against Lasersohn, and show that the problem of the Gupta Syllogism can be solved by making a minor addition to Intensional Montague Grammar. This solution is one that Lasersohn discusses but…Read more
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59On fair countable lotteriesPhilosophical Studies 174 (11): 2787-2794. 2017.Two reverse supertasks—one new and one invented by Pérez Laraudogoitia —are discussed. Contra Kerkvliet and Pérez Laraudogoitia, it is argued that these supertasks cannot be used to conduct fair infinite lotteries, i.e., lotteries on the set of natural numbers with a uniform probability distribution. The new supertask involves an infinity of gods who collectively select a natural number by each removing one ball from a collection of initially infinitely many balls in a reverse omega-sequence of …Read more
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44Two Envelopes and BindingAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 96 (3): 508-518. 2018.This paper describes a way of defending a modification of Eckhardt's [2013] solution to the Two Envelopes Paradox. The defence is based on ideas from Arntzenius, Elga, and Hawthorne [2004].
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44Choice Sequences and the ContinuumErkenntnis 87 (2): 517-534. 2020.According to L.E.J. Brouwer, there is room for non-definable real numbers within the intuitionistic ontology of mental constructions. That room is allegedly provided by freely proceeding choice sequences, i.e., sequences created by repeated free choices of elements by a creating subject in a potentially infinite process. Through an analysis of the constitution of choice sequences, this paper argues against Brouwer’s claim.
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23The signalman against the glut and gap theoristsSynthese 198 (11): 10923-10937. 2020.Radical glut and gap theorists deny—in opposite ways—that the liar sentence has exactly one of the two values true and not true. I describe a scenario where a signalman finds himself in a situation analogous to the liar paradox: if he lights a fire at a certain time, that is analogous to the liar being true, and if he does not, that is analogous to the liar not being true. It is obvious that he must make exactly one of those states of affairs come about. It is argued that there are no relevant d…Read more
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37Unified GroundingErkenntnis 81 (5): 993-1010. 2016.This paper offers a unification and systematization of the grounding approaches to truth, denotation, classes and abstraction. Its main innovation is a method for “kleenifying” bivalent semantics so as to ensure that the trivalent semantics used for various linguistic elements are perfectly analogous to the semantics used by Kripke, rather than relying on intuition to achieve similarity. The focus is on generalizing strong Kleene semantics, but one section is devoted to supervaluation, and the u…Read more
Casper Storm Hansen
Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of Sciences
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Institute of Philosophy, Chinese Academy of SciencesAssociate Professor
University of Aberdeen
PhD, 2014
Areas of Specialization
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Philosophy of Mathematics |
Philosophy of Language |
Formal Epistemology |
Decision Theory |