DIY Audio

I've put a bunch of photos and such here of audio gear I've build over the last couple years. I've gotten very into doing this. It's fun, and the equipment sounds amazing!

Published: "Introduction" to Crispin Wright's "The Riddle of Vagueness"

I'm honored to have been asked by Crispin to write the introduction to a collection of his essays on vagueness, The Riddle of Vagueness. That has now been published by Oxford. My contribution can be found here.

Two New Papers on Truth

My earlier paper "Against Disquotation" got too long and unwieldy, so it has now been split into two other papers. The first is "Disquotation, Translation, and Context-Dependence". Abstract:

It has been known for some time that context-dependence poses a problem for disquotationalism, but the problem has largely been regarded as one of detail: one that will be solved by the right sort of cleverness. I argue here that the problem is one of principle and that extant solutions, which are based upon the notion of translation, cannot succeed.

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The second is "The Failure Argument". Abstract:

Perhaps the most important argument against deflationism is the so-called Success Argument: The success of certain behavioral strategies depends upon the truth of a person's beliefs. If so, then the notion of truth appears to play an important role in psychological explanation, contradicting the central thesis of deflationism. I argue here that this type of argument poses a particularly difficult problem for disquotationalism, but that the important case concerns the role that the falsity of a person's beliefs plays in explaining behavioral failure. 

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Published: How Not To Watch Feminist Pornography

In Feminist Philosophical Quarterly. Read it here.

Abstract

This paper has three goals. The first is to defend Tristan Taormino and Erika Lust  (or  some  of their  films)  from  criticisms that Rebecca Whisnant and Hans Maes
make of them. Toward that end, I will be arguing against the narrow conceptions that Whisnant and Maes seem to have of what “feminist” pornography must be like. More generally, I hope to show by example why it is important to take pornographic films seriously as films if we're to understand their potential to shape, or misshape, socio-sexual norms.

The Great Blowjob Debate

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