In this post, I’ll show how this theory can resolve our two bounding puzzles.
Read MoreThe Meaning of "If" Part Three: Inferences and Conditionals
In this post, I want to articulate and motivate my positive theory of conditionals.
Read MoreThe Meaning of "If" Part Two: Subjunctive Bounding
In the previous post, I discussed a puzzle about the meaning of indicative conditionals, and I mentioned that a similar puzzle arises for subjunctive conditionals. But what do these terms “indicative” and “subjunctive” mean?
Read MoreThe Meaning of "If" Part One: Indicative Bounding
This marks the first of a series of posts on my book, currently under contract with OUP, on the meaning of conditional sentences (like, “If Sue caught her flight, she arrived at noon”). My hope in this series is to explain, without jargon or technical machinery, what the book is about, my view, and some of my arguments for my view.
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On Cancelling and Sincerity
In a recent op-ed, “Should we cancel Aristotle?”, Agnes Callard suggests that “we philosophers,” and by extension, I presume, all members of civil society, “must countenance the possibility of radical disagreement.” But, she observes, what if your intellectual opponent espouses views you regard as not only wrong, but morally and intellectually repugnant?
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