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I am an aspiring philosopher. My main philosophical interests involve problems in contemporary philosophy of science, physics, language, and metaphysics. I am also interested in metaethics and modern philosophy, especially Hume.

I maintain a blog the emphsis of which is philosophical. I also contribute to Desert Landscapes, the blog of the University of Arizona philosophy department.

Until recently, this page was an archive of some of my philosophical writting. However, my recent entrance to graduate school caused me to revise my standards for informal pulication. Stated roughly, I no longer wish to be associated with every half-baked philosophical thesis I've at one time or another propounded. As a result, I have removed most of the work that was archived here.

I expect that soon I will post some of the work in which I presently engage. I have made this promise before and not followed through on it. We'll see what happens. Presently, I am developing some work on testimony and something--maybe on Skolem and Benacerraff's Pricess Margaret Premise-- in the philosophy of mathematics.

Occasionally, I write a bit of philosophical humor, such as this.

General Semantics and Non-declarative Sentences (December 2001) attempts to answer a common objection to truth-conditional and intensional semantic theories, viz. that they cannot account for the meanings of non-truth-conditional sentences such as questions and commands. This paper takes David Lewis's (1972) "General Semantics" as a paradigm intensional semantics and develops an account of question semantics that takes Lewis's theory as primitive. It discusses commands and other non-declarative sentences briefly. I contend that any intensional semantics may, mutatis mutandis, adopt the proposal for question semantics that I proposed here. This paper is a revision of one that I wrote in April 2001.



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