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5Conference 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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421Quine 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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575The 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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653Aristotle, 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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