Philosophy and Theoretical Science

We argue that several difficulties facing expressivist solutions to the Frege-Geach problem are paralleled by almost exactly analogous problems facing realist semantic theories. We show that by adopting a variation on a prominent realist solution, the expressivist brings her account of logical consequence closer to ph…

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• ERHAN DEMİRCİOĞLU

A natural suggestion and increasingly popular account of how to revise our logical beliefs treats revision of logic analogously to the revision of scientific theories (Hjortland, Priest, Russell, Williamson, etc.). I investigate this approach and argue that simple applications of abductive methodology to logic result…

Sometimes a fact can play a role in a grounding explanation, but the particular content of that fact make no difference to the explanation—any fact would do in its place. I call these facts vacuous grounds. I show that applying the distinction between-vacuous grounds allows us to give a principled solution to Kit Fine…

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• NURBAY IRMAK

It is regrettably common for theorists to attempt to characterize the Humean dictum that one can't get an 'ought' from an 'is' just in broadly logical terms.We here address an important new class of such approaches which appeal to model-theoretic machinery.Our complaint about these recent attempts is that they interfe…

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• ARAS BOZKURT

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Although the invariance criterion of logicality first emerged as a criterion of a purely mathematical interest, it has developed into a criterion of considerable linguistic and philosophical interest. In this paper I compare two different perspectives on this criterion. The first is the perspective of natural language…

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• ISTVAN ALBERT ARANYOSI

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• MAJID DAVOODY BENI