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1Davidson, Russell and Wittgenstein on the Problem of PredicationIn Claudine Verheggen (ed.), Wittgenstein and Davidson on Language, Thought, and Action, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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4Davidson, Russell and Wittgenstein on the Problem of PredicationIn Claudine Verheggen (ed.), Wittgenstein and Davidson on Language, Thought, and Action, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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16Davidson, Russell and Wittgenstein on the Problem of PredicationIn Claudine Verheggen (ed.), Wittgenstein and Davidson on Language, Thought, and Action, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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9Wittgenstein's Tractatus logico-philosophicus: a critical guide (edited book)Cambridge University Press. 2024.Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, the only book-length work to have been published during his lifetime, continues to generate interest and scholarly debate. This volume of new essays showcases contemporary ideas on how to interpret the Tractatus and throws new light on some of its most challenging passages.
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111James Shaw has written an excellent book on Wittgenstein’s rule-following considerations. It manages to provide fresh perspectives on a topic on which it seemed.
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Wright on MooreIn Annalisa Coliva (ed.), Mind, meaning, and knowledge: themes from the philosophy of Crispin Wright, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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18Pragmatist Semantics: A Use-Based Approach to Linguistic RepresentationOxford University Press. 2023.José L. Zalabardo defends a pragmatist account of what grounds the meaning of central semantic discourses--ascriptions of truth, of propositional attitudes, and of meanings. He argues that it is the procedures that regulate acceptance and rejection that give the sentences of these discourses their meanings, and explores the application of the pragmatist template to ethical discourse. The pragmatist approach is presented as an alternative to representationalist accounts of the meaning grounds of …Read more
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5Kripke’s Normativity Argument1In Alexander Miller & Crispin Wright (eds.), Rule-Following and Meaning, Mcgill-queen's University Press. pp. 274-293. 2002.
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176A problem for information-theoretic semanticsSynthese 105 (1): 1-29. 1995.Information theoretic semantics proposes to construe predicate reference in terms of nomological relations between distal properties and properties of representational mental events. Research on the model has largely concentrated on the problem of choosing the nomological relation in terms of which distal properties are to be singled out. I argue that, in addition to this, an information theoretic account has to provide a specification of which properties of representational mental events will p…Read more
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8Reference, simplicity, and necessary existence in the 'Tractatus'In Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2012.... on any acquirer British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Data available ISBN 978–0– 19–969152–4 Printed in Great Britain on acid-free paper by MPG Books Group, ..
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26Conocimiento y escepticismo. Ensayos de epistemologíaInstituto de Investigaciones Filosóficas. 2014.El presente volumen recoge seis ensayos publicados originalmente en inglés en revistas especializadas y volúmenes colectivos a lo largo de la última década. Tratan de las consecuencias de desarrollos recientes en el análisis del conocimiento para la evaluación de los argumentos escépticos tradicionales. Los argumentos escépticos pretenden mostrar que es imposible conocer el mundo. Forman parte de la tradición filosófica occidental desde la antigüedad, y han tenido una influencia importantísima e…Read more
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Goddard and Judge on Tractarian ObjectsAustralasian Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.I discuss the idea that the objects of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus are propertyless bare particulars, an idea defended by Leonard Goddard and Brenda Judge in their monograph, The Metaphysics of the Tractatus. I present the difficulties that Goddard and Judge raise for this construal concerning the idea that Tractarian objects have natures that determine their possibilities of combination, and I assess the solution they propose. I offer an alternative construal of the notion with which these difficu…Read more
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46Humility and metaphysicsAnalytic Philosophy 64 (3): 183-196. 2023.David Lewis has argued that we cannot identify the fundamental properties. It is generally accepted that we can resist Lewis's conclusion if we are prepared to accept a structuralist account of fundamental properties, according to which their causal/nomological role is essential to their identity. I argue, to the contrary, that a structuralist construal of fundamental properties does not sustain a successful independent strategy for resisting Lewis's conclusion. The structuralist can vindicate o…Read more
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24Response to Commentaries on ‘The Tractatus on Unity’Australasian Philosophical Review 2 (3): 343-354. 2018.Volume 2, Issue 3, September 2018, Page 343-354.
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56The Tractatus On UnityAustralasian Philosophical Review 2 (3): 250-271. 2018.ABSTRACT I argue that some of the central doctrines of Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus can be seen as addressing the twin problems of semantic unity and...
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28The Primacy of PracticeRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 86 181-199. 2019.I argue that our procedures for determining whether ascriptions of a predicate represent things as being a certain way are ultimately pragmatic. Pragmatic procedures are not subject to validation by the referential procedure – determining whether there is a property playing the role of its referent. Predicates can represent even if we can't provide an independent identification of its referent. For these predicates, the speakers’ knowledge of how they represent objects as being would have to be …Read more
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26Belief, desire and the prediction of behaviourPhilosophical Issues 29 (1): 295-310. 2019.Philosophical Issues, EarlyView.
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38Logic without metaphysicsSynthese 198 (S22): 5505-5532. 2019.Standard definitions of logical consequence for formal languages are atomistic. They take as their starting point a range of possible assignments of semantic values to the extralogical atomic constituents of the language, each of which generates a unique truth value for each sentence. In modal logic, these possible assignments of semantic values are generated by Kripke-style models involving possible worlds and an accessibility relation. In first-order logic, they involve the standard structures…Read more
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39Reflective Knowledge and the Nature of TruthDisputatio 8 (43): 147-171. 2016.I consider the problem of reflective knowledge faced by views that treat sensitivity as a sufficient condition for knowledge, or as a major ingredient of the concept, as in the analysis I advance in Scepticism and Reliable Belief. I present the problem as concerning the correct analysis of SATs — beliefs to the effect that one of my current beliefs is true. I suggest that a plausible analysis of SATs should treat them as neither true nor false when they ascribe truth to a non-existent belief. I …Read more
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89Wright on MooreIn Annalisa Coliva (ed.), Mind, meaning, and knowledge: themes from the philosophy of Crispin Wright, Oxford University Press. 2012.To the sceptic's contention that I don't know that I have hands because I don't know that there is an external world, the Moorean replies that I know that there is an external world because I know that I have hands. Crispin Wright has argued that the Moorean move is illegitimate, and has tried to block it by limiting the applicability of the principle of the transmission of knowledge by inference—the principle that recognising the validity of an inference from known premises generates knowledge …Read more
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83Wittgenstein's Nonsense Objection to Russell's Theory of JudgmentIn Michael Campbell & Michael O'Sullivan (eds.), Wittgenstein and Perception, Routledge. pp. 126-151. 2015.I offer an interpretation of Wittgenstein's claim that Russell's theory of judgment fails to show that it's not possible to judge nonsense.
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75Wittgenstein on accordPacific Philosophical Quarterly 84 (3). 2003.The paper deals with the interpretation of Wittgenstein's views on the power of occurrent mental states to sort objects or states of affairs as in accord or in conflict with them, as presented in the rule-following passages of the Philosophical Investigations. I shall argue first that the readings advanced by Saul Kripke and John McDowell fail to provide a satisfactory construal of Wittgenstein's treatment of a platonist account of this phenomenon, according to which the sorting power of occurre…Read more
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68Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2012.This volume comprises nine lively and insightful essays by leading scholars on the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, focusing mainly on his early work
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83Semantic Normativity and NaturalismIn Manuel García-Carpintero & Max Kölbel (eds.), The Continuum companion to the philosophy of language, Continuum International. 2012.The paper addresses the question whether semantic naturalism is undermined by the thought that semantic concepts are normative.
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127Review: Marie McGinn: Elucidating the Tractatus: Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy of Logic and Language (review)Mind 117 (468): 1105-1108. 2008.
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162The Tractatus on Logical ConsequenceEuropean Journal of Philosophy 18 (3): 425-442. 2009.I discuss the account of logical consequence advanced in Wittgenstein's Tractatus. I argue that the role that elementary propositions are meant to play in this account can be used to explain two remarkable features that Wittgenstein ascribes to them: that they are logically independent from one another and that their components refer to simple objects. I end with a proposal as to how to understand Wittgenstein's claim that all propositions can be analysed as truth functions of elementary proposi…Read more
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