Aristotelian Society, Monday 28th November 2016
Slides [new tab, .pdf]
Abstract: Absolutism is the view that quantifiers like ‘everything’ sometimes range over an absolutely comprehensive domain. Continue reading
Category Archives: Research
Everything, more or less
A defence of generality relativism
Monograph (forthcoming with OUP)
Abstraction Reconceived
Br J Philos Sci (2016) 67 (2): 579-615. doi: 10.1093/bjps/axu035
Neologicists have sought to ground mathematical knowledge in abstraction. One especially obstinate problem for this account is the bad company problem. Continue reading
Semantic Pessimism and Absolute Generality
Book chapter in Quantifiers, Quantifiers, and Quantifiers: Themes in Logic, Metaphysics, and Language (ed. Alessandro Torza), Synthese Library 2015, pp 339-366
Abstract: Semantic pessimism has sometimes been used to argue in favour of absolutism about quantifiers, the view, to a first approximation, that quantifiers in natural or artificial languages sometimes range over a domain comprising absolutely everything. Continue reading
The Iterative Conception of Set
J Philos Logic (2013) 42: 697. doi:10.1007/s10992-012-9245-3
The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com
Abstract: The use of tensed language and the metaphor of set ‘formation’ found in informal descriptions of the iterative conception of set are seldom taken at all seriously. Continue reading
