I’ve mentioned my work on the epistemology of essence several times, and I gave a talk with that title at NYU already last spring. Since then I’ve been slowly chipping away at the draft that I had, with the help of a number comments I’ve gotten (thanks a lot for those everyone, I’ll make sure [...]
As I’ve hinted in passing before, the second visit abroad in the remit of my Academy of Finland, 3-year postdoc project is about to begin. Last spring I worked at NYU with Kit Fine — a visit which I documented in my NYU Diaries — next spring I will be a Visiting Scholar at the [...]
While I’ve been teaching a course on Metametaphysics here in Helsinki, I’ve revisited some of the literature on quantification and ontological commitment, and also read parts of Ted Sider‘s forthcoming book, Writing the Book of the World. The book is interesting, but there are a lot of issues in it that I find problematic, one [...]
I gave a talk with the above title at the ECAP 7 conference in Milan two weeks ago. Several people were interested in the paper, and as I’ve now had the chance to make some minor revisions to it, I thought I’d post the draft here. I’m not entirely happy with the paper yet, but [...]
I’ve posted a draft of my commentary on Kathrin Koslicki’s The Structure of Objects (OUP, 2008). The commentary will be published in a special issue of the Italian journal Humana.Mente. The issue is on Composition, Counterfactuals and Causation, and is edited by Massimiliano Carrara, Roberto Ciuni, and Giorgio Lando. Other contributors include Andrea Borghini, Louis [...]
Previous installments here and here. My first month in New York (and one third of my visit) has flown by, but I’ve certainly gotten something out of it. Unfortunately only a small portion of that is directly work-related, but I’m trying to be good from now on and do some more writing! I’ve got a [...]
Me and my colleague from Durham, Donnchadh O’Conaill, have been working on a joint paper entitled Priority Monism and Conceptual Pluralism for a Palgrave-Macmillan volume, Spinoza on Monism, edited by Philip Goff. The paper is now at the stage where we could use some feedback. It still needs some polishing and digging up references etc., [...]
I’ve just uploaded the first draft of my own contribution to the Contemporary Aristotelian Metaphysics volume which I’m editing for Cambridge University Press. The paper is entitled ‘In Defence of Aristotelian Metaphysics’ and consists of brief replies to two criticisms of ‘aprioristic‘ neo-Aristotelian metaphysics, one of them due to Thomas Hofweber, in the recent Metametaphysics [...]
I’ve been meaning to get back to my brief criticism of two-dimensional modal semantics for a while. I’ve now produced this short draft of just over 3,000 words. Previously I tried to do too much in the same paper, talking about conceivability and modal epistemology as well, but this is now a much more concise [...]
Just a brief note indicating that I’ve uploaded a revised version of my paper on counterfactuals and modal epistemology. I first blogged about this almost a year ago, and I refer you to the previous post for an outline of the paper.
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