•  536
    A world of truthmakers
    In Jean-Maurice Monnoyer (ed.), Metaphysics and Truthmakers, Ontos Verlag. pp. 18--105. 2007.
    I will present and criticise the two theories of truthmaking David Armstrong offers us in Truth and Truthmakers (Armstrong 2004), show to what extent they are incompatible and identify troublemakers for both of them, a notorious – Factualism, the view that the world is a world of states of affairs – and a more recent one – the view that every predication is necessary. Factualism, combined with truthmaker necessitarianism – ‘truthmaking is necessitation’ – leads Armstrong to an all-embracing tota…Read more
  •  296
    The tao of metaphysics
    with Philipp Keller and Elena Cassetta
    Swiss Philosophical Preprints. 2008.
    We present a unified diagnosis of three well-known puzzles about proper names, based on a new view of the metaphysics of words and proper names in particular adumbrated by David Kaplan in “Words”. While our solution comes at some metaphysical price, we think it is worth being considered a serious contender and may illustrate the promise of taking more seriously the metaphysical foundations of our semantic theories.
  •  97
    Introduction: The Philosophy of Vectors
    with Stephan Leuenberger
    Dialectica 63 (4): 369-380. 2009.
  •  62
    In the first part ("Determination"), I consider different notions of determination, contrast and compare modal with non-modal accounts and then defend two a-modality theses concerning essence and supervenience. I argue, first, that essence is a a-modal notion, i.e. not usefully analysed in terms of metaphysical modality, and then, contra Kit Fine, that essential properties can be exemplified contingently. I argue, second, that supervenience is also an a-modal notion, and that it should be analys…Read more
  •  45
    Introduction
    Dialectica 58 (3). 2004.
  •  34
    Review of D. M. Armstrong, Truth and Truthmakers (review)
    Mind 118 (472): 1101-1105. 2009.
  •  21
    Editorial
    Dialectica 56 (4). 2002.
  •  1
    Editorial
    Dialectica 56 (4): 293-294. 2002.
  • Editorial
    Dialectica 74 (1). 2020.
    Dialectica Goes Open Access.