My monograph "Logical Pluralism and Logical Consequence" is now officially published! You can find it on the Cambridge University Press website, here. Here is the blurb: Logical pluralism is the view that there is more than one correct logic. This is not necessarily a controversial claim but in its most exciting formulations, pluralism extends to … Continue reading Book published!
I'm planning to present some of the things I've been working on over the past few months at the James Madison University in Virginia and the University of Bonn in April and June this year. The main theme will be logical pluralism but I'll also think some more about methodological questions and their relation to … Continue reading Some philosophy of logic talks
Natasha Alechina, Colin Caret, and yours truly recently initiated a collaborative research project on logical normativity and logical reasoning in (logic-based) AI systems. We’re happy to have received a small grant of the focus area “Human-centered Artificial Intelligence (HAI)” here at Utrecht University, which we initially planned to use for a kick-off workshop in Utrecht. … Continue reading New Research Project: Logical normativity and logical reasoning in AI systems
Daniel Cohnitz, Tobias Stark, and I received a grant to organize a workshop on "The social epistemology of the spread of conspiracy theories about and among migrants". Earlier this year, we already spent a super interesting week in Sydney working on conspiracy theories with some colleagues at USyd, so we are really happy to be … Continue reading Seed Money Grant Awarded
My paper "Disagreement about logic from a pluralist perspective" has just been published in Philosophical Studies. In the paper, I argue that it is hard, if not impossible, to formulate an interesting version of logical pluralism when relying on a semantic implementation of the intuitive notion of rivalry between logics. In particular, I focus on … Continue reading Paper published in “Philosophical Studies”
I recently accepted a position as Assistant Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University. As of November, I will be a part of the Theoretical Philosophy Group and I am looking forward to working with a great bunch of philosophers. It looks like there will be many interesting things happening … Continue reading New Job at Utrecht University
Exciting news: The Philosophical Quarterly just published my paper on non-normative logical pluralism and the normativity objection! In the paper, I argue that recent attempts to save certain forms of logical pluralism from the so-called normativity objection (aka the collapse argument) by claiming that logic is not normative are not successful. The paper is now … Continue reading Paper published in “The Philosophical Quarterly”
I reviewed the collection of papers "The semantics and pragmatics of quotation" (2017, Springer) edited by Paul Saka and Michael Johnson for the journal Language. It's a nice volume that assembles some state-of-the-art research on quotation and quotation-like constructions. The issue (vol. 95, no. 2) containing the review has now been published. The .pdf is … Continue reading Book Review published in “Language”
Alexander Dinges, Julia Zakkou, and myself are editing a special issue on semantic variability to appear in Inquiry. I post the call for papers below. Please feel free to share. If you know anyone working on these issues, please do encourage them to submit their papers. Call for Papers – Special Issue on “Semantic Variability” … Continue reading Special Issue on “Semantic Variability”
Some time ago, I wrote a handbook article on epistemic contextualism for Martin Grajner and Guido Melchior's Handbuch Erkenntnistheorie, published by J.B. Metzler. I am happy to report that the book is now available, here or here. The article is in German. Look here for a draft and here for the final version.
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