’,
Xing Tao Tao (trans.), in
Zhexue Yicong [Philosophical Translations], 1
(1994): 45–53, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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| B1. | Abstract Objects: An Introduction to
Axiomatic Metaphysics, Dordrecht: D. Reidel, 1983. [Free Download, Compliments of Springer] |
| B2. | Intensional Logic and the
Metaphysics of Intentionality, Cambridge, MA: The MIT
Press/Bradford Books, 1988. [Author's Watermarked Preprint] |
| A59. | “A Defense of Logicism,”
coauthors: Hannes Leitgeb and Uri Nodelman, forthcoming,
Bulletin of Symbolic Logic. [Preprint available online] [Abstract] |
| A58. | “In Defense of Relations,” forthcoming, dialectica,
special issue (‘The Metaphysics of Relational States’, J.~Plate,
ed.). [Preprint available online] [Abstract] |
| A57. | “The Metaphysics of Routley Star,” The
Australasian Journal of Logic, 21(4) (2024): 141–176. [published online open access] [Preprint available online] [Abstract] |
| A56. | “Number Theory and Infinity Without Mathematics,” Journal of
Philosophical Logic, coauthor: Uri Nodelman,
published online 08 August 2024. [PDF Viewable but not Downloadable from Publisher] [Preprint available online] [Abstract] |
| A55. | “Mathematical Pluralism,” Noûs,
58(2) (2024): 306–332. [published online open access] [Preprint available online] [Abstract] |
| A54. | “On Anselm's Ontological Argument in Proslogion II,”
coauthor: Paul E. Oppenheimer, History of Philosophy and
Logical Analysis, 25 (2022): 327–351.
doi:10.30965/26664275-bja10054 [Preprint available online] [Abstract] |
| A53. | “Revisiting the ‘Wrong Kind of Object’
Problem”, coauthor: Merel Semeijn,
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| A52. | “Typed Object Theory”, in José L. Falguera and
Concha Martínez-Vidal (eds.), Abstract Objects: For and
Against (Synthese Library: Volume 422), Cham: Springer, 2020,
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| A51. | “Mechanizing Principia Logica-Metaphysica in
Functional Type Theory”, coauthors: Daniel Kirchner and
Christoph Benzmüller,
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| A50. | “Computer Science and Metaphysics: A Cross-Fertilization”,
coauthors: Daniel Kirchner and Christoph Benzmüller,
Open Philosophy, 2 (2019): 230–251 (Special
Issue: Computer Modeling in Philosophy, Patrick Grim, ed.),
doi: 10.1515/opphil-2019-0015 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A49. | ‘Unifying Three Notions of Concepts’, Theoria
(Special Issue: Context, Cognition and Communication; Tadeusz
Ciecierski and Paweł Grabarczyk, guest eds.),
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| A48. | “Mathematical Descriptions”,
coauthor: Bernard Linsky, Philosophical Studies,
176/2 (2019): 473–481;
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| A47. | “Object Theory and Modal Meinongianism”,
coauthor: Otávio Bueno, Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
95/4 (2017): 761–778, doi: 10.1080/00048402.2016.1260609 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A46. | “Automating Leibniz's Theory of Concepts”,
coauthors: Jesse Alama and Paul E. Oppenheimer,
in A. Felty and A. Middeldorp (eds.), Automated Deduction –
CADE 25: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Automated
Deduction (Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Volume
9195), Berlin: Springer, pp. 73–97, doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-21401-6_4 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A45. | “Worlds and Propositions Set Free”,
coauthors: Otávio Bueno and Christopher Menzel,
Erkenntnis, 79 (2014): 797–820. [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A44. | “Foundations for Mathematical Structuralism”, coauthor:
Uri Nodelman,
Mind, 123/489 (2014): 39–78. [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A43. | “The Fundamental Theorem of World Theory”, coauthor:
Christopher Menzel,
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 43/2 (2014): 333–363.
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A42. | “The Tarski T-Schema is a Tautology (Literally)”,
Analysis, 74/1 (2014): 5–11.
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A41. | “A Defense of Contingent Logical Truths”, coauthor:
Michael Nelson,
Philosophical Studies, 157/1 (2012): 153–162.
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A40. | “Relations Versus Functions at the Foundations of Logic: Type-Theoretic Considerations”, coauthor:
Paul E. Oppenheimer,
Journal of Logic and Computation, 21 (2011): 351–374.
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A39. | “A Computationally-Discovered Simplification of the Ontological Argument”,
coauthor: Paul E. Oppenheimer,
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 89/2 (June 2011): 333–349.
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A38. | “Bennett and ‘Proxy Actualism’”,
coauthor: Michael Nelson,
Philosophical Studies, 142/2 (2009): 277–292.
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A37. | “Reflections on Mathematics”, in
Philosophy of Mathematics: Five Questions, V.F. Hendricks
and H. Leitgeb (eds.), New York, London: Automatic Press/VIP,
2007, pp. 313–328.
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A36. | “Reflections on the Logic of the Ontological Argument”,
coauthor: Paul E. Oppenheimer,
Studia Neoaristotelica,
4/1 (2007): 28–35.
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A35. | “Steps Toward a Computational Metaphysics”,
coauthor: Branden Fitelson,
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 36/2 (April 2007): 227–247
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] [Note: Subsequent to publication, the authors discovered some of the clauses needed to represent certain propositions of object theory in PROVER9 were omitted. This preprint has been corrected.] |
| A34. | “Deriving and Validating Kripkean Claims Using the Theory of Abstract Objects”, Noûs, 40/4
(December 2006): 591-622. [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A33. | “Essence and Modality”,
Mind, 115/459 (July 2006): 659-693. [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] [Published version freely available online from the publisher in PDF] [Note: In converting the LaTeX in the preprint to the format used for publication in Mind, a couple of symbols were omitted. The preprint can be used to determine what the missing symbols are.] |
| A32. | “What is Neologicism?”,
coauthor: Bernard Linsky,
The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic, 12/1 (2006): 60-99. [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A31. | “A Nominalist's Dilemma and its Solution”,
coauthor:
Otávio Bueno,
Philosophia Mathematica,
13 (2005): 297-307.
[Published version freely available online from the publisher in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A30. | “In Defense of the Law of Noncontradiction”, in The Law of
Noncontradiction: New Philosophical Essays, G. Priest,
J.C. Beall, B. Armour-Garb, eds., Oxford: Oxford University Press,
2004 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A29. | “Frege, Boolos, and Logical Objects”,
coauthor: David J. Anderson,
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| A28. | “Referring to Fictional
Characters”, Dialectica, 57/2 (2003):
243-254. [Note: This article was written in 1985. See the abstract in
Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical
Association, 58/3 (February 1985): 573. It was
published in German translation in 1987 (see below). The English
manuscript was published in 2003.]
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A27. | “A Common Ground and Some Surprising Connections”,
Southern Journal of Philosophy, XL
(Supplement 2002): 1-25. (Keynote lecture delivered at the Spindel Conference
entitled Origins: The Common Sources of the Analytic and
Phenomenological Traditions, September 2001, University of
Memphis, Philosophy Department) [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A26. | “Fregean Senses, Modes of Presentation, and Concepts”,
Philosophical Perspectives, 15 (2001): 333-359 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A25. | “Neo-Logicism? An Ontological Reduction of Mathematics to Metaphysics”,
Erkenntnis, 53/1-2 (2000), 219-265 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A24. | “The Road Between Pretense Theory and Object Theory”,
in Empty Names, Fiction, and the Puzzles of Non-Existence,
A. Everett and T. Hofweber (eds.), Stanford: CSLI
Publications, 2000, pp. 117-147 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A23. | “How to Say Goodbye to the Third Man”,
coauthor: Francis Jeffry Pelletier,
Noûs, 34/2
(2000): 165-202 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A22. | “A (Leibnizian) Theory of Concepts”,
Philosophiegeschichte und logische Analyse / Logical
Analysis and History of Philosophy, 3 (2000): 137-183 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A21. | “Natural Numbers and Natural Cardinals as Abstract Objects: A Partial Reconstruction of Frege’s Grundgesetze in Object Theory”,
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 28/6 (1999): 619-660 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A20. | “Mally's Determinates and Husserl's Noemata”,
in Ernst Mally - Versuch einer Neubewertung, A. Hieke (ed.),
St. Augustin: Academia-Verlag, 1998, pp. 9-28 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A19. | “A Classically-Based Theory of Impossible Worlds”,
Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 38/4 (Fall 1997):
640-660 (Special Issue: Graham Priest, Guest Editor) [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A18. | “The Modal Object Calculus and its Interpretation”,
Advances in Intensional Logic, Maarten de Rijke (ed.),
Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997, pp. 249--279 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A17. | “In Defense of the Contingently Non-Concrete”,
coauthor:
Bernard Linsky,
Philosophical Studies (Special
Issue entitled ‘Possibilism and Actualism’), 84/2-3 (December
1996): 283-294 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A16. | “Naturalized Platonism vs. Platonized Naturalism”,
coauthor:
Bernard Linsky, The Journal of Philosophy,
XCII/10 (October 1995): 525--555 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A15. | “Two Related World Views”,
Noûs, 29/2 (1995): 189--211 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A14. | “In Defense of the Simplest Quantified Modal Logic”,
coauthor:
Bernard Linsky, Philosophical Perspectives
(Volume 8: Logic and Language), J.~Tomberlin (ed.), Atascadero, CA:
Ridgeview, 1994, pp.~431–58.
[Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A13. | “Twenty-Five Basic Theorems in Situation and World Theory”,
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 22 (1993):
385-428; revised and expanded from `A Theory of Situations', in
Situation Theory and Its Applications, J. Barwise, J. Gawron,
G. Plotkin, and S. Tutiya (eds.), Stanford: Center for the Study of
Language and Information Publications, 1991, 81-111 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A12. | “A Philosophical Conception of Propositional Modal Logic”,
Philosophical Topics, 21/2 (Fall 1993):
263--281 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A11. | “Replies to the Critics”,
Philosophical Studies, 69/2-3 (March 1993):
231-242 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A10. | “On Mally's Alleged Heresy: A Reply”,
History and Philosophy of Logic, 13/1
(1992): 59-68 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A9 | “On the Logic of the Ontological Argument”,
coauthor:
Paul E. Oppenheimer,
Philosophical Perspectives, 5 (1991): 509-529 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A8. | “Is Lewis a Meinongian?”, coauthor:
Bernard Linsky,
Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 69/4
(December 1991): 438-453 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A7. | “Singular Propositions, Abstract Constituents, and Propositional Attitudes”,
Themes from Kaplan, J. Almog, J. Perry, and H. Wettstein
(eds.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989, 455-478 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A6. | “Logical and Analytic Truths That Are Not Necessary”,
The Journal of Philosophy, 85/2 (February
1988): 57-74 [Preprint available online in PDF] [Abstract] |
| A5. | “A Comparison of Two Intensional Logics”,
Linguistics and Philosophy, 11 (February 1988): 59-89 [No preprint available online] [DOI] [Abstract] |
| A4. | “On the Structural Similarities Between Worlds and Times”,
Philosophical Studies, 51/2 (March 1987): 213-239 [No preprint available online] [DOI] [Abstract] |
| A3. | “Lambert, Mally, and the Principle of Independence”,
Grazer Philosophische Studien, 25/26 (1985/1986): 447-459 [No preprint available online] [DOI] [Abstract] |
| A2. | “Meinongian Type Theory and Its Applications”,
Studia Logica, 41/2-3 (1982): 297-307 [No preprint available online] [DOI] [Abstract] |
| A1. | “An Alternative Theory of Nonexistent Objects”,
coauthor: Alan McMichael, Journal of Philosophical Logic,
9 (1980): 297-313 [No preprint available online] [DOI] [Abstract] |
| C3. | “Reply to Ebert and Rossberg”,
in Reduction – Abstraction – Analysis
(Proceedings of the 31st International Ludwig Wittgenstein-Symposium
in Kirchberg, 2008), H. Leitgeb and A. Hieke (eds.), Kirchberg:
Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society, 2009, pp. 311–319. [Preprint available online in PDF] |
| C2. | “Mathematics: Truth and Fiction?”, coauthor:
Mark Colyvan,
Critical Study of Mark Balaguer's Platonism and Anti-Platonism in
Mathematics, in Philosophia Mathematica, 7/3 (1999):
336-349 [Preprint available online in PDF] |
| C1. | “Review of Daniel Dennett's The Intentional Stance”, published in Review of Metaphysics, 43/2 (December 1989): 397-400 |
| R5. | “Logic and Metaphysics”, Journal of Indian Council
of Philosophical Research, XXVII/2 (April--June 2010):
155–184; reprinted in A. Gupta and J. van Benthem (eds.),
Logic and Philosophy Today: Volume 2 (Studies in Logic: Volumes 30),
London: College Publications, pp. 153--182.
[Preprint available online in PDF]. |
| R4. | “Frege’s Theorem and Foundations for Arithmetic”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Originally published under the title “Frege's Logic, Theorem, and Foundations for Arithmetic”, in the Summer 1998 Edition, URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum1998/entries/frege-logic/ |
| R3. | “Gottlob Frege”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Originally published in September 1995, but first archived in the Fall 1997 Edition, URL = https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall1997/entries/frege/ |
| R2. | “Fictional Truth, Objects, and Characters”, Blackwell Companion to Metaphysics, J. Kim and E. Sosa (eds.), Oxford: Blackwell, 1992 |
| R1. | “Systematic Metaphysics”, Handbook on Metaphysics and Ontology, H. Burkhardt and B. Smith (eds.), Philosophia Verlag, 1991 |
| E9. | “The Funding Experience of the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy,” coauthor: Uri Nodelmann, Information Standards Quarterly, 22/4 (Fall 2010): 15–16. [DOI] |
| E8. | “The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: A University-Library Partnership in Support of Scholarly Communications and Open Access,” College & Research Libraries News, 67/8 (September 2006): 502–504, 507. [DOI] |
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| E6. | “Lookupd Problems in Apple's Mac OS X Server”, coauthor: Colin Allen, Stepwise Information Server (May 20, 1999) (archived at the Internet Archive/Wayback Machine). |
| E5. | “A Solution to the Problem of Updating Encyclopedias”, coauthor: Eric Hammer, Computers and the Humanities, 31/1 (1997): 47–60. |
| E4. | “Philosophy and the World Wide Web”, American Philosophical Association Newsletter on Computer Use in Philosophy, 94/2 (Spring 1995): 29–33. |
| E3. | “A Soft Touch”, Piano and Keyboard (formerly: The Piano Quarterly), 165 (November/December 1993): 13. |
| E2. | “Are Algorithms Patentable?”, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 35/6 (July/August 1988): 796–799. |
| E1. | “Two Estrogen Receptors in Reproductive Tissue, coauthors: Roy Smith, Sharon Clarke, and Robert Taylor”, Journal of Steroid Biochemistry, 10 (1979): 31–35. |
| T5. | Czech translation of A9, ‘O Logice Ontologického Dukazu’, Petr Hromek (trans.), in Studia Neoaristotelica, 4/1 (2007): 5–27. |
| T4. | French translation of A27, ‘Une base commune et quelques liens surprenants’, Jimmy Plourde (trans.), in Action, Rationalité, et Décision (Actes du Colloque international de 2002 en hommage à J.-Nicolas Kaufmann), D. Fisette and D. Vanderveken (eds.), London: College Publications, 2008. |
| T3. | Romanian translation of A22, ‘O Teorie Leibniziana a Conceptelor’, Delia-Ana Serbescu (trans.), in Analysis and Metaphysics, 4/2 (Supplement) (December 2005): 7–75. |
| T2. | Chinese translation of A14,
‘’,
Xing Tao Tao (trans.), in
Zhexue Yicong [Philosophical Translations], 1
(1994): 45–53, Beijing: Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
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| T1. | German translation of A28, ‘Erzählung als Taufe des Helden: Wie man auf fiktionale Objekte Bezug nimmt’, Arnold Günther (trans.), in Zeitschrift für Semiotik 9/1–2 (1987): 85–95. [Note: This translation appeared 16 years prior to the publication in English.] |
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