Friday, September 12, 2025

New Paper: Does Davidson Argue For Compositionality?

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 Abstract Donald Davidson is generally supposed to have offered an argument for the principle of compositionality in “Theories of Meaning an...
Monday, June 23, 2025

Truth, Reflection, and Implicit Commitment

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 New paper, forthcoming in a volume on the foundations of mathematics. Abstract: The 'Implicit Commitment Thesis' (ICT) states that,...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Frege Arithmetic and the Epistemology of 'Everyday' Arithmetic

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For the conference in honor of Crispin Wright held in St Andrews recently, I gave a talk that continued a discussion several of us had been ...
Friday, January 24, 2025

A Note on the Strength of Disentangled Truth-Theories

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Abstract So-called `disentangled' truth-theories are supposed to prevent assumptions about the truth of statements in the object-langua...
Thursday, January 23, 2025

Some Remarks on 'Logical' Reflection

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 Abstract: Cezary Cieśliński has proved a result shows that highlights `logical reflection': The principle that every logically provabl...
Sunday, December 1, 2024

Pat Metheny (Jazz Piano Solos, v. 57)

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Another volume of solo piano arrangements, this time of tunes by Pat Metheny (and in some cases Lyle Mays). Quite a few people of my generat...

Duke Ellington (Jazz Piano Solos, v. 9)

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I am a HUGE Duke Ellington fan. He wrote so much great music, and his band, at its peak, was just incredibly powerful. The great classic is ...