Here is a list of talks I have given or will be giving in the near future.
An extended defence of the analytic/synthetic distinction.
Preface [84kb pdf], Contents [88kb pdf],
OUP Webpage (UK), Amazon webpage (US)
edited with Delia Graff Fara. Under contract with Routledge.
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)
Our case against the main thesis of Jason Stanley's 2005 book Knowledge and Practical Interests
Paper [224kb pdf]
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.
An
argument defending the view that one cannot derive an ought from an
is against the usual (suspect) counterexamples.
Paper [3MB pdf]
The formulation
and proof of Hume's Law and several related inference barrier theses.
Paper [731kb pdf]
This paper contains one of the central ideas from my dissertation on the analytic/synthetic distinction.
In this paper I present an extremely controversial view
that I have been kicking around for a long, long time.
Abstract [pdf]
Review [pdf], BibTeX Citation Details [bib]
A short summary of my dissertation (Princeton, 2004)