Here is a list of talks I have given or will be giving in the near future.



Books


Truth in Virtue of Meaning



forthcoming with Oxford University Press (Feb 2008)

An extended defence of the analytic/synthetic distinction.
Preface [84kb pdf], Contents [88kb pdf],
OUP Webpage (UK), Amazon webpage (US)



The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language

edited with Delia Graff Fara. Under contract with Routledge.


Papers


One True Logic?
published in the Journal of Philosophical Logic, April 2008

ABSTRACT: This is a paper about the constituents of arguments. It argues that several different kinds of truth-bearer may be taken to compose arguments, but that none of the obvious candidates—sentences, propositions, sentence/truth-value pairs etc.—make sense of logic as it is actually practiced. The paper goes on to argue that by answering the question in different ways, we can generate different logics, thus ensuring a kind of logical pluralism that is different from that of J. C. Beall and Greg Restall in their book Logical Pluralism.
Penultimate Draft, published version (access to JPL required)


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Knowledge by Indifference
with John Doris
forthcoming in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy (September 2008)

Our case against the main thesis of Jason Stanley's 2005 book Knowledge and Practical Interests
Paper [224kb pdf]

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The Analytic/Synthetic Distinction
Blackwell's Philosophy Compass, vol. 2, August 2007

An encyclopedia article presenting a brief history of the analytic/synthetic distinction,
10 arguments against the distinction, and 5 challenges which any contemporary theory of analyicity ought to meet.
Paper and Abstract
This article comes with a "teaching and learning guide", available here.


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In Defence of Hume's Law
forthcoming in the collection Hume, Is and Ought: New Essays

An argument defending the view that one cannot derive an ought from an is against the usual (suspect) counterexamples.
Paper [3MB pdf]

 

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Barriers to Inference
(co-authored with Greg Restall Erdös number: 4!)
forthcoming in the collection Hume, Is and Ought: New Essays

The formulation and proof of Hume's Law and several related inference barrier theses.
Paper [731kb pdf]

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Truth in Virtue of Meaning
under review at the Journal of Philosophy

This paper contains one of the central ideas from my dissertation on the analytic/synthetic distinction.

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Semantic Dialetheism
under review at PPR

In this paper I present an extremely controversial view that I have been kicking around for a long, long time.
Abstract [pdf]



Reviews


Warren Goldfarb's Deductive Logic
in the Australasian Journal of Logic

Review [pdf], BibTeX Citation Details [bib]


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Analyticity, Meaning and Paradox

A short summary of my dissertation (Princeton, 2004)