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8Verification Principle and Testability PrincipleEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 61 (1): 152-168. 2024.The paper deals with the conception of logical empiricism developed by Eino Kaila. Eino Kaila, being a thinker close to the Vienna Circle, departs from some of the central ideas of logical positivism. He identifies a limited number of problems in metaphysics that are meaningful and need to be solved, but he declares the rest of metaphysics to be a logical fallacy. For Eino Kaila, it is not the principle of verification (as a criterion of meaning) but the principle of testability that plays the m…Read more
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2Benacerraf and Set-Theoretic Reductionist RealismEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 58 (1): 142-160. 2021.The paper is devoted to analysis of P. Benacerraf’s argument against set-theoretic reductionist realism which is a fragment of a broader argument, know as the “identification problem”. The analyzed fragment of P. Benacerraf’s argument concerns the possibility of reducing of mathematical notions to set-theoretic notions. The paper presents a reconstruction of P. Benacerraf’s original argumentation, its analysis and also several possible objections proposed by P. Benacerraf himself about 30 years …Read more
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6New Analytic Philosophy: A Comment on Oleg A. Domanov’s PaperEpistemology and Philosophy of Science 55 (4): 48-52. 2018.The present paper is a commentary on O.A. Domanov’s paper devoted to the use of modern type theory in the analysis of quantification in opaque contexts (e. g., propositional attitudes and believe reports). The article briefly mentions several recent attempts to use type theory to solve a number of philosophical problems. The paper suggests that the use of modern type theory, which has a number of significant advantages over classical logic and set theory, is a very promising direction in the dev…Read more
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What are Propositions?Analytica 1 50-66. 2007.In the article the discussion about how we should translate the term ‘proposition’ is continued. It is proposed a well-grounded analysis of Frege’s semantic theory and comparsion it with Russell’s conceptions supposing that such a comparison may shed light on this discussion. Besides, to clarify the concept of proposition the author places high emphasis on the “propositions’ problems” which embraces questions that arise whilst discussing this concept
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109Модальности как фундаментальный элемент реальности: обзор книги «Williamson on Modality» (review)ФИЛОСОФИЯ НАУКИ 77 158-171. 2018.The paper provides a review of the collection of scientific works «Williamson on Modality» and contains a brief summary of the main ideas of the articles published in the book.
Екатеринбург, Свердловская обл., Russian Federation
Areas of Specialization
Metaphysics |
Philosophy of Language |
Epistemology |
Logic and Philosophy of Logic |
Areas of Interest
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