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2A Plea for Concrete UniversalsCritica 47 (139): 3-46. 2015.Este artículo trata el problema de los objetos creados que pueden ser repetidos, como las obras musicales y las literarias. En la sección 2 presentamos una serie de desiderata intuitivos que toda teoría debe satisfacer. En las secciones 3 y 4 presentamos un silogismo disyuntivo extendido. Los objetos en cuestión pueden ser o bien universales concretos, particulares concretos, universales abstractos o particulares abstractos. Mostramos cómo es que las teorías que consideran que son cualquiera de …Read more
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39In Defense of the Modal Account of the ProgressiveMind and Language 29 (1): 85-108. 2014.When we talk about creation, we use the progressive and verbs of creation as in ‘Mary is building a house’. The modal account of the progressive says that a sentence such as ‘Mary is building a house’ is true just in case Mary eventually builds a house in all worlds in which her house-building proceeds normally. Recently, the modal account has come under fire from those who claim that it over-generates modal entailments and those who think the progressive should be treated as a predicate of even…Read more
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University of Colorado, Colorado SpringsDepartment of PhilosophyOther faculty (Postdoc, Visiting, etc)
Colorado Springs, Colorado, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |