papers

In progress

Carnapian Theses in Metaontology and Metaethics.

Regress, Unity, Facts, and Propositions.

Rejectionism about Truth.

Vagueness and Second-Level Indeterminacy. (For OUP anthology on vagueness, edited by Richard Dietz and Sebastiano Moruzzi.)

Carnap and Ontological Pluralism. (For David Chalmers, David Manley and Ryan Wasserman (eds.), Metametaphysics, OUP.)

Forthcoming

Putnam on Ontology. Forthcoming in proceedings from conference on Hilary Putnam's pragmatism, Rodopi.

Deconstructing Ontological Vagueness. Forthcoming in Canadian Journal of Philosophy.

The Ontological Significance of Inscrutability. Forthcoming in Philosophical Topics.

Bad Company and Neo-Fregean Philosophy. Forthcoming in special volume of Synthèse, devoted to the Bad Company objection to neo-Fregeanism in the philosophy of mathematics, edited by Oystein Linnebo.

2008

The Liar Paradox, Expressibility, Possible Languages. In JC Beall (ed.), The Revenge of the Liar, OUP.

2007

The Picture of Reality as an Amorphous Lump. In Ted Sider, John Hawthorne and Dean Zimmerman (eds.), Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, Blackwell.

Meaning-Constitutivity. Inquiry 50: 559-74. (In special volume devoted to inconsistency views on the liar and sorites paradoxes, edited by Douglas Patterson.)

Fictionalism. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.

Sider on Existence. Noûs 41: 519-28. (Link to Noûs.) [Co-authored with David Liebesman]

Characterizing Vagueness. Philosophy Compass 2: 896-909. (Link to Philosophy Compass.)

2006

Neo-Fregean Ontology. In John Hawthorne (ed.), Philosophical Perspectives, 20, Metaphysics, 2006. (Link to Blackwell Synergy.)

Metaontology. Philosophy Compass 1: 317-34. (Link to Philosophy Compass.)

Schiffer on Vagueness. Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 87: 12-23.

The Liar Paradox and Metaphysics. In J. Skilters, M. Eklund, O. Jonsson and O. Wiegand (eds.), Paradox: Logical, Cognitive and Communicative Aspects, University of Latvia Press, Riga.

2005

Fiction, Indifference and Ontology. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 71: 557-79.

What Vagueness Consists In. Philosophical Studies 125: 27-60.

2004

Personal Identity, Concerns and Indeterminacy. The Monist 87: 489-511. Special issue on personal identity, edited by Tamar Gendler and Dean Zimmerman.

2002

Personal Identity and Conceptual Incoherence. Noûs 36: 465-85.

Inconsistent Languages. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 64: 251-75.

Deep Inconsistency. Australasian Journal of Philosophy 80: 321-31.

A Vindication of Tarski's Claims about the Liar Paradox. In Timothy Childers and Ondrej Majer eds.), The Logica Yearbook 2001, Prague: Filosofia, pp. 49-55. (Proceedings of the Logica 2001 conference in Zahradky, Czech Republic..

Is Hintikka's Logic First-Order? Synthèse 131: 371-88. [Co-authored with Daniel Kolak.]

Peter van Inwagen on Material Beings. Ratio 15: 245-56.

Paradoxer: en allmän diagnos. Filosofisk Tidskrift 23: 42-52. (In Swedish.)

2001

Supervaluationism, Vagueifiers, and Semantic Overdetermination. Dialectica 55: 363-78.

2000

The Aims of Logical Empiricism as a Philosophy of Science. Acta Analytica 15: 137-59.

1996

On How Logic Became First-Order. Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic 1: 147-67.