Title: Essence, Potentiality, and Modality Abstract: According to essentialism, metaphysical modality is founded in the essences聽of things, where the essence of a thing is roughly akin to its real definition.聽According…
Abstract: This paper investigates the norm of presupposition, as one pervasive type of indirect speech act. It argues against the view that sees presuppositions as an indirect counterpart of the…
Abstract. 鈥斅燩recisifications of certain informal concepts could be thought of as instances of conceptual engineering: the concept of a Turing machine (human effective computability), the notion of a Kripke structure…
Title: ‘The Problem of Polarization’ Abstract: 鈥淭he cure for democracy’s ills is more democracy.鈥� This popular adage is false. Contemporary democracy faces problems that have their source in otherwise laudable…
Title: Indicative Conditionals: Probabilities and Relevance Abstract:聽Adams鈥� Thesis claims that the acceptability of a simple indicative conditional equals聽the corresponding conditional probability. The Thesis is widely endorsed, but arguably false and…
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