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    The book offers a characterization of the meaning and role of the notion of truth in natural languages and an explanation of why, in spite of the big amount of proposals about truth, this task has proved to be resistant to the different analyses. The general thesis of the book is that defining truth is perfectly possible and that the average educated philosopher of language has the tools to do it. The book offers an updated treatment of the meaning of truth ascriptions from taking into account t…Read more
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    Truth in Perspective (review)
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 14 (2): 382-383. 1999.
  •  3
    Book Reviews (review)
    with Robert Kirk, Paul Rusnock, Mirella Capozzi, K. Misiuna, T. Boswell, Alan R. Perreiah, Victor Sánchez Valencia, James Gasser, D. P. Henry, E. J. Lowe, Besprechung von Guillermo Guillermo Bottcher, and Wolfe Mays
    History and Philosophy of Logic 15 (2): 237-263. 1994.
    Patrick Grim, The incomplete universe:totality, knowledge, and truth. Cambridge, Mass, and London: The MIT Press, 1991. xiv + 165pp. £22.50 Jan SebestikLogique et mathématique chez Bernard Bolzano. Paris:Vrin, 1992. 522 pp. 198Fr J. De Lorenzo, Kant y la matemâtica. El uso constructivo de la razön pura Madrid:Editorial Tecnos, 1992. 180 pp. No price stated F. Coniglione, R. Poli And J. Woleintski, Polish scientific philosophy:The Lvov-Warsaw school. Amsterdam and Atlanta, Georgia: Rodopi, 1993. …Read more
  •  7
    This monograph is a defence of the Fregean take on logic. The author argues that Frege ́s projects, in logic and philosophy of language, are essentially connected and that the formalist shift produced by the work of Peano, Boole and Schroeder and continued by Hilbert and Tarski is completely alien to Frege's approach in the Begriffsschrift. A central thesis of the book is that judgeable contents, i.e. propositions, are the primary bearers of logical properties, which makes logic embedded in our …Read more
  •  80
    Minimal Expressivism
    Dialectica 66 (4): 471-487. 2012.
    The purpose of this paper is twofold: first we outline a version of non-descriptivism, ‘minimal expressivism’, leaving aside certain long-standing problems associated with conventional expressivist views. Second, we examine the way in which familiar expressivist results can be accommodated within this framework, through a particular interpretation that the expressive realm lends to a theory of meaning. Expressivist theories of meaning address only a portion of the classical problems attributed t…Read more
  •  9
    Tracking the World Down
    Philosophical Topics 50 (1): 83-107. 2022.
    The background of this paper is what I call “pragmatic inferentialism,” a view that I attribute to Robert Brandom. Here, I develop Brandom’s view and argue that it is a kind of subject naturalism, in Price’s sense, and that the charge of idealism sometimes addressed against it is unwarranted. Regarding, I show that pragmatic inferentialism finds support from evolutionary psychology and developmental psychology. Regarding, I present what I call “level 0 expressivism,” which I take to be the seman…Read more
  •  64
    The purpose of this paper is to show that, pace (Field, 2009), MacFarlane’s assessment relativism and expressivism should be sharply distinguished. We do so by arguing that relativism and expressivism exemplify two very different approaches to context-dependence. Relativism, on the one hand, shares with other contemporary approaches a bottom–up, building block, model, while expressivism is part of a different tradition, one that might include Lewis’ epistemic contextualism and Frege’s content in…Read more
  •  5
    Book reviews (review)
    Mind 102 (405): 195-197. 1993.
  •  24
    Meaning, Basic Self-Knowledge, and Mind: Essays on Tyler Burge (edited book)
    University of Chicago Press. 2002.
    This volume comprises a lively and thorough discussion between philosophers and Tyler Burge about Burge's recent, and already widely accepted, position in the theory of meaning, mind, and knowledge. This position is embodied by an externalist theory of meaning and an anti-individualist theory of mind and approach to self-knowledge. The authors of the eleven papers here expound their versions of this position and go on to critique Burge's version. Together with Burge's replies, this volume offers…Read more
  •  5
    Stop beating the donkey!
    with Aránzazu San Ginés
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 32 (1): 7-24. 2017.
    We propose a new approach to conditional donkey sentences that allows us to face successfully the often called proportion problem. The main ingredients of the proposal are van Benthem’s generalized quantifier approach to conditionals (van Benthem, 1984), and Barwise’s situation semantics (Barwise, 1989). We present some experimental data supporting our proposal.Proponemos una nueva aproximación a las oraciones condicionales burro, que nos permite hacer frente con éxito al llamado problema de la …Read more
  •  8
    Hintikka’s semantic approach to meaning, a development of Wittgenstein’s view of meaning as use, is the general theme of this chapter. We will focus on the analysis of quantified sentences and on the scope of the principle of compositionality and compare Hintikka’s take on these issues with that of Frege. The aim of this paper is to show that Hintikka’s analysis of quantified expressions as choice functions, in spite of its obvious dissimilarities with respect to the higher-order approach, is ac…Read more
  •  12
    Propositions First: Biting Geach's Bullet
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 86 87-110. 2019.
    To be a proposition is to possess propositional properties and to stand in inferential relations. This is the organic intuition, [OI], concerning propositional recognition. [OI] is not a circular characterization as long as those properties and relations that signal the presence of propositions are independently identified. My take on propositions does not depart from the standard approach widely accepted among philosophers of language. Propositions are truth-bearers, the arguments of truth-func…Read more
  •  4
    Introduction: Expressivisms, Knowledge and Truth
    Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 86 1-9. 2019.
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    Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903–30) made seminal contributions to philosophy, mathematics and economics. Whilst he was acknowledged as a genius by his contemporaries, some of his most important ideas were not appreciated until decades later; now better appreciated, they continue to bear an influence upon contemporary philosophy. His historic significance was to usher in a new phase of analytic philosophy, which initially built upon the logical atomist doctrines of Bertrand Russell and Ludwig Wittgen…Read more
  •  10
    Stop beating the donkey! A fresh interpretation of conditional donkey sentences
    with Aránzazu San Ginés
    Theoria : An International Journal for Theory, History and Fundations of Science 32 (1): 7-24. 2017.
    We propose a new approach to conditional donkey sentences that allows us to face successfully the often called proportion problem. The main ingredients of the proposal are van Benthem's generalized quantifier approach to conditionals, and Barwise's situation semantics. We present some experimental data supporting our proposal.
  •  18
    This monographic section contains the three papers delivered by Philip Kitcher as Raimundus Lullius Lectures during the VII Conference of the Spanish Society of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, that took place in Santiago de Compostela (July 18th-20th, 2012). It also includes three of the contributions presented to the Symposium on Kitcher’s work in the same Conference.
  •  13
    Un Analisis Logico de las Teorias de la Identidad Psiconeural (A logical analysis of the psychoneural identity theories)
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 15 (2): 319-348. 2000.
    El propósito de este artículo es mostrar que las llamadas "teorías de la identidad psiconeural" no tienen la estructura lógica de una teoría genuina de la identidad. Un operador de identidad genuino es un operador de segundo orden, o de órdenes superiores, que convierte predicados n-ádicos en predicados n-1-ádicos. Si las teorias de la identidad psiconeural no son, en realidad, teorías de la identidad, entonces la críticas habituales que usan la Ley de Leibniz y otros rasgos que se relacionan co…Read more
  •  12
    What is Identity?
    Philosophical Books 32 (1): 40-41. 1991.
  • D. LAURIER and F. LEPAGE "Essais sur le langage et l'intentionalité" (review)
    History and Philosophy of Logic 16 (1): 127. 1995.
  •  4
    Autologic
    Philosophical Books 36 (2): 113-114. 1995.
  •  8
    Essay Review
    History and Philosophy of Logic 20 (2): 111-114. 1999.
  •  40
    Philosophy of language
    with E. J. Lowe
    Philosophical Books 46 (2): 158-163. 2005.
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    Relativism of Truth vs. Dogmatism about Truths A False Dichotomy
    Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 28 (3): 00-00. 2009.