Title:聽Worlds: Possible and Impossible Abstract: In this talk, I鈥檒l reflect on the role of worlds鈥攂oth possible worlds and impossible worlds鈥攂oth in the聽semantics of various kinds of languages and logics, and…
Title: Properties and Their Parts Abstract: I will present some very early ideas on a hyperintensional theory of properties that I am attempting to work out. I will begin my…
Title:聽Impossible Worlds in Dynamic Epistemic Logic Abstract:聽Epistemic Logic, as a spinoff of normal modal logics, suffers from the problem of logical omniscience: its agents are perfect reasoners with unlimited deductive…
Title: On Beall and Camrud’s defence of the combinatorial argument for FDE Abstract:聽In their 2020 paper “FDE all the way up”, Beall and Camrud aim to defend a particular combinatorial…
Title: Logical Akrasia Abstract:聽The aim of this paper is two-fold. First, it introduces the concept logical akrasia (by analogy to epistemic akrasia). Second, it discusses how logical akrasia relates to…
Title: Intensional Subject-Matter in Subsystems of Analytic Implication Abstract: Although one tends to think of truth or falsity as the predominant semantic feature with which logic is concerned, a number…
Title: The Access Problem for Act-type Theories of Propositions Abstract: Recent work on propositions has seen the rise of act-type theories, according to which propositions are types of cognitive acts…
Title: Explanatory (or Grounding) Proofs: Philosophical Framework, Core Ideas, Results Abstract: When it comes to the question of聽what聽proofs serve for, since the antiquity聽two possible answers have been identified: on the…
Title: Sets as fusions of materially-equivalent rigid embodiments Abstract: Albeit having some initial plausibility, most philosophers today would reject the thesis that members of sets are parts of sets, instead…
Flatworldism: A (Reluctant) Defense Flatworldism is a view on the nature of reality according to which reality lacks a certain kind of 鈥� hierarchical 鈥� structure. Prima facie what this…
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