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111Truth-assessment Methodology and the Case against the Relativist Case 1 a gainst Contextualism about Deontic ModalsRes Philosophica 94 (3): 325-357. 2017.Recent challenges to Kratzer’s canonical contextualist semantics for modal expressions are united by a shared methodological practice: Each requires the assessment of the truth or warrant of a sentence in a scenario. The default evidential status accorded these judgments is a constraining one: It is assumed that, to be plausible, a semantic hypothesis must vindicate the reported judgments. Fully assessing the extent to which these cases do generate data that puts pressure on the canonical semant…Read more
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136From metaphysical to substantive naturalism: A case studySynthese 138 (2): 149-173. 2004.This paper addresses two related questions. First, what is involved in giving a distinctively realist and naturalist construal of an area of discourse, that is, in so much as stating a distinctively realist and naturalist position about, for example, content or value? I defend a condition that guarantees the realism and naturalism of any position satisfying it, at least in the case of positions on content, but perhaps in other cases as well. Second, what sorts of considerations render a distinct…Read more
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149Confusion of Tongues: A Theory of Normative Language, by Stephen Finlay (review)Mind 125 (498): 585-593. 2016.
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11On elective students may not always be clear about safeguarding themselves and others. It is important that placements are safe, and ethically grounded. A concern for medical schools is equipping their students for exposure to and response to uncomfortable and/or unfamiliar requests in locations away from home, where their comfort and safety, or that of the patient, may be compromised. This can require legal, ethical, and/or moral reasoning on the part of the student. The goal of this article is…Read more
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Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Religion |
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