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    Book Reviews (review)
    with Sari Nusseibeh, Gabriel Nuchelmans, Francisco A. Rodriguez-Consuegra, G. Lolli, D. P. Henry, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, George Rousspoulos, J. Woleński, and B. Smith
    History and Philosophy of Logic 13 (1): 115-132. 1992.
    Al-Farahr’s commentarv and short treatise on Aristotle’s De interpretatione. Introduction and translation from Arabic by F. Zimmerman. Oxford: Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1987. clii + 287 pp. of English. £22.50 Johann Andreas Segner, Specimen logicae universaliter demonstrate. Appendices: Two dissertations De syllogismo. Edited by Mirella Capozzi. Bologna: Editrice CLUEB, 1990. clxxii + 281 pp. 85 000 Lire M. Borga, P. Fregugua And D. Palladino, I contribua fond…Read more
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    Book Reviews (review)
    with A. G. Molland, E. J. Ashworth, D. P. Henry, B. Smith, Richard Vesley, Richard E. Grandy, Rezensiert von H. Poser, Paul Salmon, Rainer Bäuerle, John T. Blackmore, I. Grattan-Guinness, Michael Clark, and R. George
    History and Philosophy of Logic 4 (1-2): 225-259. 1983.
    MEDIEVAL LOGICNORMAN KRETZMANN, Infinity and continuity in ancient and medieval thought. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1982. 367 pp. $36.lO/£20.75.A. MAIERÙ, English logic in Italy in the 14th and 15th centuries. Acts of the 5th European Symposium on Medieval Logic and Semantics. Rome 10-14 November 1980. Napoli: Bibliopolis, 1982. 388 pp. 60,000 lire.PHENOMENOLOGY AND LOGICBARRY SMITH, Parts and moments. Studies in logic and formal ontology.Miinchen, Wien: Philosophia Verlag, 198…Read more
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    L'axe analytique anglo-autrichien
    RÉPHA, revue étudiante de philosophie analytique 4 5-32. 2011.
  •  13
    Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality
    with Myles Burnyeat, Richard Gaskin, Joël Biard, Victor Caston, Richard Sorabji, Christof Rapp, Hermann Weidemann, Dorothea Frede, Claude Panaccio, Elizabeth Karger, Robert Pasnau, and Cyrille Michon
    Brill. 2001.
    This volume, including sixteen contributions, analyses ancient and medieval theories of intentionality in various contexts: perception, imagination, and intellectual thinking. It sheds new light on classical theories and examines neglected sources, both Greek and Latin
  • Aspekty gramatyczne a logika terminów relacyjnych
    Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 73-89. 2020.
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    Sameness and Substance (review)
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 14 (1): 176-182. 1981.
  •  3
    European and American Philosophers
    with John Marenbon, Douglas Kellner, Richard D. Parry, Gregory Schufreider, Ralph McInerny, Andrea Nye, R. M. Dancy, Vernon J. Bourke, A. A. Long, James F. Harris, Thomas Oberdan, Paul S. MacDonald, Véronique M. Fóti, F. Rosen, James Dye, Pete A. Y. Gunter, Lisa J. Downing, W. J. Mander, Maurice Friedman, Robert C. Solomon, Nigel Love, Mary Pickering, Andrew Reck, Simon J. Evnine, Iakovos Vasiliou, John C. Coker, Georges Dicker, James Gouinlock, Paul J. Welty, Gianluigi Oliveri, Jack Zupko, Tom Rockmore, Wayne M. Martin, Ladelle McWhorter, Hans-Johann Glock, Georgia Warnke, John Haldane, Joseph S. Ullian, Steven Rieber, David Ingram, Nick Fotion, George Rainbolt, Thomas Sheehan, Gerald J. Massey, Barbara D. Massey, David E. Cooper, David Gauthier, James M. Humber, J. N. Mohanty, Michael H. Dearmey, Oswald O. Schrag, Ralf Meerbote, George J. Stack, John P. Burgess, Paul Hoyningen-Huene, Nicholas Jolley, Adriaan T. Peperzak, E. J. Lowe, William D. Richardson, Stephen Mulhall, and C.
    In Robert L. Arrington (ed.), A Companion to the Philosophers, Blackwell. 2017.
    Peter Abelard (1079–1142 ce) was the most wide‐ranging philosopher of the twelfth century. He quickly established himself as a leading teacher of logic in and near Paris shortly after 1100. After his affair with Heloise, and his subsequent castration, Abelard became a monk, but he returned to teaching in the Paris schools until 1140, when his work was condemned by a Church Council at Sens. His logical writings were based around discussion of the “Old Logic”: Porphyry's Isagoge, aristotle'S Categ…Read more
  •  4
    Meinong’s Objectives
    In Jesús Padilla Gálvez (ed.), Ontological Commitment Revisited, De Gruyter. pp. 21-32. 2021.
  •  5
    Why There Are No States of Affairs
    In Maria Elisabeth Reicher (ed.), States of Affairs, Ontos. pp. 111-128. 2009.
  •  2
    Konstituierende Beziehungen bei sozialen Ganzen
    In Gerhard Schönrich (ed.), Institutionen Und Ihre Ontologie, Ontos Verlag. pp. 211-222. 2005.
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    Truth-Makers
    In Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (ed.), Metaphysics and Truthmakers, Ontos Verlag. pp. 9-50. 2007.
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    Unsaturatedness
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 14 (1): 73-95. 1981.
    Frege's obscure key concept of the unsaturatedness of functions is clarified with the help of the concepts of dependent and independent parts and foundation relations used by Husserl in describing the ontology of complex wholes. Sentential unity in Frege, Husserl and Wittgenstein: all have a similar explanation. As applied to linguistic expressions, the terms 'unsaturated' and 'incomplete' are ambiguous: they may mean the ontological property of Unselbständigkeit, inability to exist alone, or th…Read more
  •  69
    Against the aggregate theory of number
    Journal of Philosophy 79 (3): 163-167. 1982.
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    Philosophy in the West divides into three parts: Analytic Philosophy (AP), Continental Philosophy (CP), and History of Philosophy (HP). But all three parts are in a bad way. AP is sceptical about the claim that philosophy can be a science, and hence is uninterested in the real world. CP is never pursued in a properly theoretical way, and its practice is tailor-made for particular political and ethical conclusions. HP is mostly developed on a regionalist basis: what is studied is determined by th…Read more
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    Truth-Makers
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 44 (3): 287-321. 1984.
    A realist theory of truth for a class of sentences holds that there are entities in virtue of which these sentences are true or false. We call such entities ‘truthmakers’ and contend that those for a wide range of sentences about the real world are moments (dependent particulars). Since moments are unfamiliar, we provide a definition and a brief philosophical history, anchoring them in our ontology by showing that they are objects of perception. The core of our theory is the account of truthmaki…Read more
  •  3
    Bradley's Logic
    Philosophical Quarterly 35 (138): 107-108. 1985.
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    On the principle of the excluded middle
    with Jan Łukasiewicz and Jan Woleński
    History and Philosophy of Logic 8 (1): 67-69. 1987.
    The brief article of 1910 which is translated here is, as the prefatory note explains, significant for understanding both the way in which ?ukasiewicz came to many-valued logic and the influences under which he stood at the time
  •  86
    Holes and Other Superficialities (review)
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 57 (3): 734-736. 1997.
  • Linearity and structure
    In Alex Burri (ed.), Language and thought, Walter De Gruyter. 1997.
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    Vagueness and Ignorance
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 66 (1): 145-178. 1992.
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    Vagueness and Ignorance
    Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 66 (1): 145-178. 1992.
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    The Long and Winding Road
    Grazer Philosophische Studien 98 (1): 75-89. 2021.
    Following its welcome revival in the late twentieth century, metaphysics in the analytic tradition has succumbed to decadence, with an astonishing variety of outlandish and extreme positions or “metaphysical follies” being taken seriously. This has caused an inevitable backlash among more scientifically-minded philosophers and incurred the scorn of scientists. Much of the reason for this is the blithe ignoring of empirical science by armchair metaphysicians. The roles of empirical knowledge in g…Read more