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13 May 2024
Philosophers are generally more squeamish about necessity than possibility. But why?! My new paper, forthcoming in JAPA, investigates philpapers.org/rec/KIMTPB-5
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19 Nov 2025
I have a new paper out about modality, inspired by Jess Leech's recent book (global.oup.com/academic/prod…), in which I explore connections between duality of the modal operators, relative modality, and modal (anti) realism. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
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23 Oct 2025
Come and work with us! Our @Ethics_of_Doubt project is advertising a two year research fellowship, details:
jobs.soton.ac.uk/Vacancy.asp…
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16 Sep 2025
We are delighted to welcome two new lecturers this academic year. Umut Baysan (metaphysics, philosophy of mind, metaethics) will join us this September, and Samuel Kimpton-Nye (metaphysics, philosophy of science, @KimptonNye) will join us in January. Welcome Umut and Sam!
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28 Oct 2024
I’ll be talking at a workshop on Jessica Leech’s “Thinking of Necessity” in December. Sign up and details here: eur03.safelinks.protection.o…
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Samuel retweeted
27 Sep 2024
Here's another book you really don't need to buy -- because it's Open Access!
@StAndrewsPhil @ArchePhilosophy
27 Sep 2024
Discover ‘Topics of Thought’ by @Franz_Berto, which draws on recent developments in topic-and subject matter-sensitive semantics, presenting formal models of human thinking and reasoning. #OpenAccess
Read it here: oxford.ly/3znDVpQ
ALT Cover of “Topics of Thought” by Francesco Berto, featuring a canal scene and the OUP logo, highlighting the logic of knowledge and belief.
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2 Oct 2024
*Hot off the press* My contribution to the conversation on how color ontology interacts with contemporary thinking on neural representation. Colors are not, I argue, relations between subjects, viewing circumstances, and surfaces: academic.oup.com/analysis/ad…
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1 Oct 2024
Can Humeans simply reject fine tuning arguments on the grounds that different values of constants or whatever could indeed give rise to life?
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24 Sep 2024
Just writing up a paper presenting a whole new modal anti-realist programme, no biggie.
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23 Sep 2024
Beliefs about possibility are no more easily justified than beliefs about necessity. They are probably *harder* to justify. So philosophy has been on the wrong track for hundreds of years, with odd consequences. Now published online and open access: cambridge.org/core/journals/…
13 May 2024
Philosophers are generally more squeamish about necessity than possibility. But why?! My new paper, forthcoming in JAPA, investigates philpapers.org/rec/KIMTPB-5
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22 Sep 2024
If there are other possible worlds it is arbitrary that *this* world is actual. It is not arbitrary that this world is actual. Therefore, there are no other possible worlds and everything is necessary.
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Samuel retweeted
16 Sep 2024
You *think* that's what philosophy is about because *that* is sayable, thereof we can speak.
But if the boundaries of philosophy already transcend language, to deign that the goal of philosophy can be linguistically explained, is not just futile, but sophistry.
16 Sep 2024
Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must try harder! Philosophy is all about crafting the concepts to expand the boundaries of speak-ability.
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16 Sep 2024
Whereof one cannot speak thereof one must try harder! Philosophy is all about crafting the concepts to expand the boundaries of speak-ability.
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13 Sep 2024
The film “Yesterday” but for philosophy where everyone forgets the work of Saul Kripke and a struggling contingently employed philosopher becomes rich and famous by telling everyone that it’s necessary that water is H2O.
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13 Sep 2024
Imagine God came down and kindly gave us one hint about the philosophy of mind, which was this: “it is absolutely necessary that an atom-for-atom duplicate of you has conscious experience”.
Would that help in any way?
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13 Sep 2024
It's funny how we've gone from Quine telling us that modality is completely dispensable to science to modern day philosophers of physics telling us that the world is nothing but modal structure.
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12 Sep 2024
AI has put us in fake barn country. But luckily epistemologists solved that one years ago, right?
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Samuel retweeted
12 Sep 2024
I think @KimptonNye might be right in saying that possibility incurs at least in as much of an explanatory demand as necessity. For some ontologies and metaphysics this is even perhaps natural to claim.
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Samuel retweeted
10 Sep 2024
This fantastic new intro book on teleology is downloadable for free for the next two weeks. Check it out! cambridge.org/core/elements/…
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