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ItemHopes Fade For Saving Truth(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 2010-01)
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ItemInclosures, Vagueness, and Self-Reference(University of Notre Dame, 2010-01-01)In this paper, I start by showing that sorites paradoxes are inclosure paradoxes. That is, they fit the Inclosure Scheme which characterizes the paradoxes of self-reference. Given that sorites and self-referential paradoxes are of the same kind, they should have the same kind of solution. The rest of the paper investigates what a dialetheic solution to sorites paradoxes is like, connections with a dialetheic solution to the self-referential paradoxes, and related issues— especially so called “higher order” vagueness.
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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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ItemThe way of the dialetheist: Contradictions in Buddhism(UNIV HAWAII PRESS, 2008-07)