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Emergence, Supervenience, and Indeterminacy
While Ross Cameron, Elizabeth Barnes and I were up in St Andrews a while back, Jonathan Schaffer presented one of his papers arguing for Monism: the view that the whole is prior to the parts, and the...
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Aristotelian indeterminacy and partial beliefs
I’ve just finished a first draft of the second paper of my research leave—title the same as this post. There’s a few different ways to think about this material, but since I hadn’t posted for a while I...
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“Supervaluationism”: the word
I’ve got progressively more confused over the years about the word “supervaluations”. It seems lots of people use it in slightly different ways. I’m going to set out my understanding of some of the...
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Non-classical logics: the no interpretation account
In the previous post, I set out what I took to be one folklore conception of a non-classicist treatment of indeterminacy. Essential elements were (a) the postulation of not two, but several truth...
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Arche talks
In a few weeks time (31st March-5th April) I’m going to be visiting the Arche research centre in St Andrews, and giving a series of talks. I studied at Arche for my PhD, so it’ll be really good to go...
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Probabilities and indeterminacy
I’ve just learned that my paper “Vagueness, Conditionals and Probability” has been accepted for the first formal epistemology festival in Konstanz this summer. It looks like the perfect place for me to...
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Primitivism about indeterminacy: a worry
I’m quite tempted by the view that it is indeterminate that might be one of those fundamental, brute bits of machinery that goes into constructing the world. Imagine, for example, you’re tempted by the...
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Indeterminate survival: in draft
So, finally, I’ve got another draft prepared. This is a paper focussing on Bernard Williams’ concerns about how to think and feel about indeterminacy in questions of one’s own survival. Suppose that...
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Indeterminacy day at Leeds
This past Saturday “indeterminacy day” was held at Leeds. Or, to give it its more prosaic title: “Metaphysical Indeterminacy: the state of the art”. There were four speakers (Katherine Hawley, Daniel...
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More on norms
One of the things that’s confusing about truth norms for belief is how exactly they apply to real people—people with incomplete information. Even if we work with “one should: believe p only if p is...
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