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Abstract: Contemporary metaphysics is a multi-faceted enterprise, enriched by a plurality of approaches that often lead to methodological conflicts. A central conundrum concerns the boundaries of realist metaphysics when the social world is the focus of theorising. The traditional definition of realism precludes social reality from having the relevant kind of objective joints that social…

In Todd 2021 (The Open Future: Why Future Contingents are All False) I defended a kind of pragmatic “error-theory” regarding ordinary judgments about the interaction of ‘will’ and negation.  On the view I defended, ‘will’ involves an essentially modal component, in the form of a universal quantifier over the “available” histories.  But this view faces…

Abstract: This talk clarifies and reassesses the scope of logical pluralism. I first argue that philosophers of logic often overlook an important distinction between the word ‘valid’, the concept validity, and the property validity. As a result, it is often unclear what the subject matter of logical theories is, and what exactly logical pluralists are pluralist about. With this…