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503Themes From Kaplan (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1989.This anthology of essays on the work of David Kaplan, a leading contemporary philosopher of language, sprang from a conference, "Themes from Kaplan," organized by the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University.
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118The semantics of common nouns and the nature of semanticsActa Philosophica Fennica 100 115-135. 2023.In “Is semantics possible?” Putnam connected two themes: the very possibility of semantics (as opposed to formal model theory) for natural languages and the proper semantic treatment of common nouns. Putnam observed that abstract semantic accounts are modeled on formal languages model theory: the substantial contribution is rules for logical connectives (given outside the models), whereas the lexicon (individual constants and predicates) is treated merely schematically by the models. This schema…Read more
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3The Puzzle That Never Was—Referential MechanicsIn Richard Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 21-34. 2012.
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32Introduction to the Volume “Naming and Necessity: A 40th‐Year Anniversary”Theoria 88 (2): 276-277. 2021.Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 2, Page 276-277, April 2022.
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17Introduction to the Volume “Naming and Necessity: A 40th‐Year Anniversary”Theoria 88 (2): 276-277. 2022.Theoria, Volume 88, Issue 2, Page 276-277, April 2022.
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48Forty Years Later: Naming Without Necessity, Necessity Without Naming 1Theoria 88 (2): 365-402. 2022.The essay examines the proper treament of (i) naming (ii) necessity. (A) It argues their mutual independence (B) provides a treatment of naming separately from any idea of “designation” (C) gives treatment of de re modality without any use of possible worlds, essences, concepts, rigid designators (D) it argues an ultimate asymmetry–naming/referring is a key real notion of semantics; necessity should not be the central idea in the metaphysics of nature.
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23Is Natural Semantics Possible?—Ordinary English, Formal Deformations-cum-Reformations and the Limits of Model TheoryIn Hans van Ditmarsch & Gabriel Sandu (eds.), Jaakko Hintikka on Knowledge and Game Theoretical Semantics, Springer. pp. 49-108. 2018.The essay is dedicated to the memory of Jaakko Hintikka and Hilary Putnam, two logically inventive philosophers who, nonetheless, showed deep judgment in bringing to the fore the limits of reducing natural languages to formal languages, via the use of logical forms and model theory. Writing in parallel ecologies, the two proposed rather similar “limitative” theses about the popular logical-form-cum-model theory methodology.
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Descartes' Punctum Archimedis: The Primality and Unity of Being, the Derivateness of the General DualitiesIn Hemmo Laiho & Arto Repo (eds.), DE NATURA RERUM - Scripta in honorem professoris Olli Koistinen sexagesimum annum complentis, University of Turku. pp. 25-58. 2016.
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27The Cosmic Ensemble: Reflections on the Nature?Mathematics SymbiosisMidwest Studies in Philosophy 31 (1): 344-371. 2007.
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49Replies (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (3). 2005.Lucky is the writer whose commentators combine perceptiveness and grace. My two commentators delved deeply into the framework I assume in WAI. Where they see gaps, they elegantly nudge the discussion towards needed extensions/clarifications. Both use the monograph to launch searching metaphysical questions—about method and content. I will take up matters of method first, then turn to specific questions in the interpretation of Descartes and the metaphysics of essence/necessity/conceivability.
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6Essays on Reference, Language, and Mind (edited book)Oup Usa. 2012.This volume collects Keith Donnellan's key contributions dating from the late 1960s through the early 1980s, along with a substantive introduction by the editor Joseph Almog, which disseminates the work to a new audience and for posterity.
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52Semantical considerations on modal counterfactual logic with corollaries on decidability, completeness, and consistency questionsNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 21 (2): 467-479. 1980.
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194The philosophy of David Kaplan (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2010.This volume collects new, previously unpublished articles on Kaplan, analyzing a broad spectrum of topics ranging from cutting edge linguistics and the ...
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22Perhaps (?), New logical foundations are needed for quantum mechanicsLogique Et Analyse 21 (82): 251. 1978.
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62Is a Unified Description of Language-and-Thought Possible?Journal of Philosophy 102 (10): 493-531. 2005.
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26David Kaplan: the man at workIn Joseph Almog & Paolo Leonardi (eds.), The philosophy of David Kaplan, Oxford University Press. pp. 1. 2010.
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206The structure–in–things: Existence, essence and logicProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 103 (2). 2003.It has been common in contemporary philosophical logic to separate existence, essence and logic. I would like to reverse these separative tendencies. Doing so yields two theses, one about the existential basis of truth, the other about the essentialist basis of logic. The first thesis counters the common claim that both logical and essential truths-in short, structural truths-are existence-free. It is proposed that only real existences can generate essentialist and logical predications. The seco…Read more
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13RepliesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 70 (3): 717-734. 2007.Lucky is the writer whose commentators combine perceptiveness and grace. My two commentators delved deeply into the framework I assume in WAI. Where they see gaps, they elegantly nudge the discussion towards needed extensions/clarifications. Both use the monograph to launch searching metaphysical questions—about method and content. I will take up matters of method first, then turn to specific questions in the interpretation of Descartes and the metaphysics of essence/necessity/conceivability.
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95Direct reference and significant cognition: Any paradoxes?1Philosophical Books 47 (1): 2-14. 2006.