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A Descriptivist Refutation of Kripke's Modal Argument and of Soames's Defence

, 2012
This article systematically challenges Kripke's modal argument and Soames's defence of this argument by arguing that, just like descriptions, names can take narrow or wide scopes over modalities, and that there is a big difference between the ...
Chen Bo, Bo, Chen
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"Kripke´s Near Miss" and Some Other Considerations On Rule Following

Princípios, 2010
In his 1982 bookWittgenstein On Rules and Private Language, Saul Kripke maintains that Wittgenstein´s rule following considerations land us with a skeptical argument about meaning. This essay contains a short exposition of Kripke´s argument. In addition,
Rodrigo Jungmann de Castro
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Pulling Down the Hierarchy

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper is about the hierarchy view: that each word has infinitely many meanings, arranged into levels, with the level n meaning serving as its semantic value when it occurs embedded to degree n in indirect or attitude reporting verbs. Departing from the famous debates over the bare tenability of the hierarchy view, I focus on whether there
Mark McCullagh
wiley   +1 more source

A Distributed Kripke Semantics

, 2004
An intuitionistic, hybrid modal logic suitable for reasoning about distribution of resources was introduced in [10]. We extend the Kripke semantics of intuitionistic logic, enriching each possible Kripke state with a set of places, and show that this ...
Chadha, R., Macedonio, D., Sassone, V.
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Now, Again and Again: The Metaphysics of Many Presents

Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper discusses whether there can be multiple present moments. After presenting some reasons for thinking that the question is worthwhile, I challenge several objections to its possibility: worries about the exclusivity of tense; the nature of change, tense logic and semantics; and the apparent tension between multiple presents and an ...
Nikk Effingham
wiley   +1 more source

Contingent Grounding Physicalism

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT It is widely held that physicalism is incompatible with the metaphysical possibility of zombies, i.e., beings physically just like us yet lacking in phenomenal consciousness. The present paper argues that this orthodoxy is mistaken. As against the received wisdom, physicalism is perfectly compatible with the possibility of zombies and zombie ...
Alex Moran
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Saving Nozick from Kripke [PDF]

, 2003
Tracking theories of knowledge, though quite popular have been under attack from their inception. Specifically, we have in mind the attacks of Saul Kripke. We don"t think these attacks on tracking theories work.
Adams, Fred
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Room for Improvement: Why Finitist Arguments Do Not Check Out

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine several new and underexplored arguments for the finitude of the past and the impossibility of Hilbert's Hotel. The first argument concludes that Hilbert's Hotel is impossible due to an alleged contradiction arising from the causal powers of infinitely many guests.
Joseph C. Schmid, Troy Dana
wiley   +1 more source

How Many Worlds Could There Be? David Lewis and Advanced Modalizing

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Advanced modalizing, namely, possibilities and necessities concerning modal space itself, is problematic for a Lewis‐style analysis of modality. A popular solution, proposed by Divers, postulates explicit semantic clauses for a collapse of advanced modalizing, to the conclusion that all such matters are, if true in the first place, both ...
Lorenzo Azzano, Ciro De Florio, Aldo Frigerio   +2 more
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Flexible Counterparts

Analytic Philosophy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Counterpart theories are powerful thanks to their flexibility: counterpart relations are not symmetrical or transitive, and one can apply more than one counterpart relation to one object. This is used to analyze metaphysical puzzles, but it also gives rise to an objection: this flexibility forces one to deny that the phenomena analyzed using ...
Florian Gatignon
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