Blackboard Tiles
This stuff is great. I’ve been teaching a slightly-harder-than-usual logic course this semester and I really wanted a blackboard for my office, for practicing proofs on. One of those things that I...
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Shazeen Samad
My first ever book has just come out, and is now available world-wide. Here’s what it looks like: It’s called Truth in Virtue of Meaning and it’s basically a new account of the analytic-synthetic...
View ArticleWustl Graduation
If you’ve been paying attention to the news recently you might have noticed that the university where I work – Washington University in St Louis – has decided to give an honourary doctorate to Phyllis...
View ArticlePrevious Attempts to Define Analyticity
From Nathan Salmon’s “Analyticity and A priority“ (J-store access required for the link): A number of definitions or explications of analyticity have been proposed. My favourite is a proposal by...
View ArticleNew Blog
Rob Wilson is involved in a new blog. He writes: The What Sorts of People blog is now up and running: check it out. This is the blog for the What Sorts of People Should There Be? network, a...
View ArticleAnd I’m back. Hello!
I’ve been so quiet around here for so long that you’ve probably stopped wondering what my name is doing in the panel on the top left. But no more. By invoking the magic words pre-tenure sabbatical I...
View ArticleLinguistic Anarchy!
I’m one of those people who can often get over an inability to settle down to work by going out to a cafe. Since I’m in Berkeley now, naturally the cafe I found this afternoon was no ordinary...
View ArticleAssertion
Wow, Geach is great, isn’t he? I’ve just been reading through “Assertion” (Phil Review, vol. 74, no, 4 (Oct 1965)) and my favourite one-liners include: I do not think there is anything in this. this...
View ArticleSurvey on Causation
My good friend Antony Eagle has a survey on causation that he’d like people to have a look at. The link is here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=flm10kfdTBAcPUGy1hay9A_3d_3d x-posted at...
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