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Graham Priest鈥檚 simple three-valued logic LP has many curious properties. It has the same valid formulas as classical logic, but differs from classical logic when it comes to valid聽sequents. The valid sequents do not uniquely characterise the logic: it is possible to have more than one different LP-鈥渘egation鈥�, each of which satisfies all the LP-requirements,…

The doctrine of divine simplicity serves two roles in Christian theology鈥攊t upholds the creator-creation distinction by saying that only the divine ontology is absolutely simple whereas every other created being is a composite, and it supports divine aseity by identifying the divine attributes with God. Traditional and contemporary versions of divine simplicity have filled these…

An increasingly popular view is that abstracta are thin鈥攖heir existence alone makes little or no demand on the world. The most sophisticated defence of this view to date is the version of abstractionism found in Linnebo’s recent book Thin Objects (2018). On this view, good abstraction principles should be understood as involving claims about asymmetric…

Neutrality and normativity have both attracted attention in the recent philosophy of logic. In this paper I ask: can we consistently hold that logic is both non-neutral and non-normative when it comes to logics for normative sentences? (e.g. deontic logics.) If these fail to be neutral won鈥檛 they commit themselves on questions of substantive normative…

Abstract: 聽 Normative inferentialist approaches to semantics in the tradition of Robert Brandom have traditionally focused on challenging as the appropriate response to an unentitled claim in an assertion-based autonomous discursive practice (ADP). In this paper I argue that purportedly unentitled claiming is likely to be far more prevalent than we might think in such…

Abstract:聽What are the functions of the predicate 鈥榠s true鈥� or the noun 鈥榯ruth鈥�? Descriptivists assume that the predicate serves to describe a property, which propositions possess if they correspond to the right sort of facts in the world. Pragmatists and deflationists have suggested instead that the truth predicate plays useful roles in encouraging debate and…