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ItemThe paradoxes of denotation(CSLI Publications, 2006)
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ItemNEIGHBORHOOD SEMANTICS FOR INTENTIONAL OPERATORS(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2009-06)
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ItemTHE STRUCTURE OF EMPTINESS(UNIV HAWAII PRESS, 2009-10)The view that everything is empty (śūnya) is a central metaphysical plank of Mahāyāna Buddhism. It has often been the focus of objections. Perhaps the most important of these is that it in effect entails a nihilism: nothing exists. This objection, in turn, is denied by Mahāyāna theorists, such as Nāgārjuna. One of the things that makes the debate difficult is that the precise import of the view that everything is empty is unclear. The object of this essay is to put the debate in a new light. It does so by proposing a mathematical characterization of Emptiness—that is, the totality of empty things—showing that, whatever it is, it has a definite structure and is not, therefore, to be identified with nothingness.
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ItemMANY-VALUED MODAL LOGICS: A SIMPLE APPROACH(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2008-08)
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ItemTHE CLOSING OF THE MIND: HOW THE PARTICULAR QUANTIFIER BECAME EXISTENTIALLY LOADED BEHIND OUR BACKS(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2008-06)The paper argues that the view that the particular quantifier is ‘existentially loaded’ is a relatively new one historically and that it has become entrenched in modern philosophical logic for less than happy reasons.
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ItemLogical Pluralism Hollandaise(AUSTRALASIAN ASSOC LOGIC, 2008)
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ItemJaina Logic: A Contemporary Perspective(Informa UK Limited, 2008-08)
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ItemThe way of the dialetheist: Contradictions in Buddhism(UNIV HAWAII PRESS, 2008-07)
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ItemPARACONSISTENCY AND DIALETHEISM(ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV, 2007)
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ItemDoubt Truth to be a Liar(Oxford University PressOxford, 2006-05-01)Abstract The Law of Non-Contradiction has been high orthodoxy in Western philosophy since Aristotle. The so-called Law has been the subject of radical challenge in recent years by dialetheism, the view that some contradictions are indeed true. Many philosophers have taken the Law to be central to many of our most important philosophical concepts. This book mounts the case against this view. Starting with an analysis of Aristotle on the Law, it discusses the nature of truth, rationality, negation, and logic itself, and argues that the Law is inessential to all of these things. The book develops Priest’s earlier ideas in In Contradiction.