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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 means is that reality鈥檚 inhabitants are not sub-dividable into the more and less fundamental such that what is more fundamental (at least sometimes) makes what…

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 following Lewis (1991, 1993) in taking sets and classes more generally to have only their subclasses as parts, with singletons being mereologically atomic. Against this…

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 one hand, a proof can serve to show that something is true,聽on the other hand, a proof can also serve to explain why something is…

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 that derive their representational and truth-conditional properties from the token cognitive acts of agents. Act-type theories have been gaining traction as part of a rejection…

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 of logics exist that give the feature of topic or subject-matter equal weight. Just as we expect compositional truth conditions to extend to the entirety…

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 the standards of epistemic rationality, and in particular, how logical akrasia might pose a challenge to the tenability of the controversial 铿亁ed point thesis.