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    Necessity
    In F. Rousseau & Jon Williamson (eds.), Key terms in logic, . pp. 72. 2010.
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    Antirealism, Meaning and Truth-Conditional Semantics
    In Mathieu Marion, Shahid Rahman & Laurent Keiff (eds.), The Realism-Antirealism Debate in the Age of Alternative Logics, . pp. 119-140. 2012.
    In this paper, I re-examine Dummett's arguments against realism and, most notably, those against truth conditional semantics. Dummett claims that a (realist) truth conditional meaning theory will invariably encounter limitations when accounting for the meanings of the statements of the so-called "disputed class", and so must be rejected in favour of a theory of meaning couched in terms of proof or verification. The first part of this paper seeks to faithfully reconstruct Dummett's position on me…Read more
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    Possible world
    In F. Rousseau & Jon Williamson (eds.), Key terms in logic, . pp. 78. 2010.
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    Epistemic logic
    In F. Rousseau & Jon Williamson (eds.), Key terms in logic, . pp. 47. 2010.
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    ABSTRACT: In this paper, I revisit arguments for and against various theses concerning higher-order knowledge in order to fully gauge their impact on the principles of positive and negative introspection. I argue that the expression “knowing that one knows” has at least two salient understandings: the more common one, labelled “transparentist”, validates the principle of positive introspection, while the other which is less common, labelled “agrippean”, supports some of the arguments against thi…Read more
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    Defending the Possibility of Knowledge
    Journal of Philosophical Logic 43 (2-3): 579-601. 2014.
    In this paper, I propose a solution to Fitch’s paradox that draws on ideas from Edgington (Mind 94:557–568, 1985), Rabinowicz and Segerberg (1994) and Kvanvig (Noûs 29:481–500, 1995). After examining the solution strategies of these authors, I will defend the view, initially proposed by Kvanvig, according to which the derivation of the paradox violates a crucial constraint on quantifier instantiation. The constraint states that non-rigid expressions cannot be substituted into modal positions. We…Read more
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    On Possible Worlds with Modal Parts: A Semantics for Modal Interaction
    Journal of Philosophical Logic 43 (6): 1129-1152. 2014.
    This paper is predicated on the idea that some modal operators are better understood as quantificational expressions over worlds that determine not only first-order facts but modal facts also. In what follows, we will present a framework in which these two types of facts are brought closer together. Structural features will be located in the worlds themselves. This result will be achieved by decomposing worlds into parts, where some of these parts will have “modal import” in the sense that they …Read more