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Scattered Notes On Logic, Truth And Paradox ~ Updated Every Wednesday

Wednesday, August 8, 2012

643 Words About Inferentialism, Disquotationalism, the Tonk Problem and the Liar Paradox

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A popular view about the semantic function of the truth predicate is that "truth is disquotation." A classic explanation of this c...
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Monday, August 6, 2012

New Developments

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I just got a one-year full-time Lectureship in the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami. Among other things, the new job means t...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

Beall Against Pinocchio

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It's a fun paradox, and Peter Eldridge-Smith argues (convincingly, by my lights) that it creates problems for the claim that 'semant...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

Check It Out!

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My Analysis paper is online.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Analysis

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I just had a paper, entitled "Paracompleteness and Revenge," accepted for publication at Analysis . It's about revenge problem...
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Singapore

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I just gave a talk at the National University of Singapore, entitled "Liar Paradox II: Revenge of the Liar Paradox." Singapore, by...
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Sunday, April 24, 2011

Some Objections to the Meaninglessness Solution to the Liar Paradox, Part IV of IV

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(Is it Wednesday already? Oh well, better late than never....) I've argued that, if (as I think) the truth predicate/operator is just a ...
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I'm a Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the University of Ulsan in South Korea. I successfully defended my PhD dissertation ("Truth is a One-Player Game: A Defense of Monaletheism and Classical Logic") last March. I also have an MFA in Creative Writing from the Stonecoast program in Maine. Oh, and I go out at night to fight crime, under the alias "the Caped Logician." Actually, that last sentence was a lie. (As is this one.) But, according to some people, I am an enemy of "Christendom."
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