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127(2): 151-186. 127(2): Review Phil. The Exculpature.” “Conversational 2018, Hoek, Daniel of §4.4-6 §1-3,
1(1):39-57. , Phil. of J. European In: Make-Believe.” Prop-Oriented and “Metaphor 1993, Walton, Kendall
November 13th: Loose Talk and Metaphor and Talk Loose 13th: November
46(6): 625–681.) 46(6): Logic Philosophical of J. Content” Truthmaker of Theory “A Fine, Kit of §2.1-2 (§1.1-§1.5,
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54(3): 161-74. 54(3): Theoria Implication.” “Relevant 1988, Lewis, K. David
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(Stephen Yablo, 2006, “Non-Catastrophic Presupposition Failure.” In: In: Failure.” Presupposition “Non-Catastrophic 2006, Yablo, (Stephen Content and Modality: Themes Themes Modality: and Content
The Philosophical Review Philosophical The Subtraction.” and “Action 1973, Jaeger, Robert 82(3): 320-329. 82(3):
October 23: Introduction 23: October
Bracketed readings are optional. are readings Bracketed
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Assessment
investigates potential applications. applications. potential investigates
of logical addition or conjunction. This course surveys recent theories of logical subtraction and and subtraction logical of theories recent surveys course This conjunction. or addition logical of
something from what was said before. Conceptually, logical subtraction is something like the inverse inverse the like something is subtraction logical Conceptually, before. said was what from something
many primes, except that numbers do not exist. In all these cases, one intuitively wants to subtract subtract to wants intuitively one cases, these all In exist. not do numbers that except primes, many
except it need not be true. Lying is wrong, except when you have a good reason. There are infinitely infinitely are There reason. good a have you when except wrong, is Lying true. be not need it except
detective who lived on Baker Street, except that he did not exist. Belief is the same as knowledge, knowledge, as same the is Belief exist. not did he that except Street, Baker on lived who detective
In philosophy, as in life, we often have occasion to take something back. Sherlock Holmes was a clever clever a was Holmes Sherlock back. something take to occasion have often we life, in as philosophy, In
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November 20th: Fictionalism about Mathematics Gideon Rosen, 2002, “A Study in Modal Deviance.” In: Conceivability and Possibility, John Hawthorne and Tamar Gendler (eds.), 283-307. New York: Oxford University Press. (§5-6 of Joseph Melia, 2000, “Weaseling Away the Indispensability Argument.” Mind 109: 466-71.) Mark Colyvan, 2010, “There is No Easy Road to Nominalism.” Mind 119(474): 285-306. (Skip §2.) §4.7 - §5 of Daniel Hoek, 2018, “Conversational Exculpature”, 187-193. (Lloyd Humberstone, 2000, “Parts and Partitions.” In: Theoria 66(1): 41-82.)
November 27th: Thanksgiving Break
December 4th: The Limits of Subtraction Ch. 8, 11 of Stephen Yablo, 2014, Aboutness. Cian Dorr, 2010, “Of Numbers and Electrons.” Proc. of the Aristotelian Society 110(2.2): 133-181. (§2.4-2.5 of Kit Fine 2017, “A Theory of Truthmaker Content.”)
December 11th: Frege’s Puzzle Jennifer Saul, “Substitution and Simple Sentences.” Analysis, 57(2): 102–108. Mark Crimmins, 1998, “Hesperus and Phosphorus: Sense, Pretense, and Reference.” In: The Philosophical Review, 107.1. (Samuel Cumming, 2018, “Variabilism.” The Philosophical Review 127(3): 323-369.) (Andrew Bacon and Jeffrey Russell, 2019, “The Logic of Opacity.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 99(1): 81-114.)