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42MetaphysicsIn Marcus Rossberg (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of Analytic Philosophy, Cambridge University Press. forthcoming.This entry considers the philosophical subject called 'metaphysics'. There have been many conceptions of metaphysics, and metaphysics has faced severe criticism throughout the history of philosophy and continues to do so. Besides discussing some major trends in analytic metaphysics - understood as 'metaphysics done by analytic philosophers' - we consider some of the criticisms and possible responses.
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6Conference Report: The Fourth International Conference of the German Society for Philosophy of Science (GWP.2022), 15–17 August, 2022 (review)Kriterion – Journal of Philosophy 37 (1): 61-64. 2023.
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433Quine on ExplicationInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 1-30. forthcoming.The main goal of this paper is to work out Quine's account of explication. Quine does not provide a general account, but considers a paradigmatic example which does not fit other examples he claims to be explications. Besides working out Quine's account of explication and explaining this tension, I show how it connects to other notions such as paraphrase and ontological commitment. Furthermore, I relate Quinean explication to Carnap's conception and argue that Quinean explication is much narrow…Read more
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659Aristotle, Logic, and QUARCHistory and Philosophy of Logic 39 (4): 305-340. 2018.The goal of this paper is to present a new reconstruction of Aristotle's assertoric logic as he develops it in Prior Analytics, A1-7. This reconstruction will be much closer to Aristotle's original...
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576The unbearable circularity of easy ontologySynthese 199 (1-2): 3527-3556. 2021.In this paper, I argue that Amie Thomasson’s Easy Ontology rests on a vicious circularity that is highly damaging. Easy Ontology invokes the idea of application conditions that give rise to analytic entailments. Such entailments can be used to answer ontological questions easily. I argue that the application conditions for basic terms are only circularly specifiable showing that Thomasson misses her self-set goal of preventing such a circularity. Using this circularity, I go on to show that Easy…Read more
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