Ideological innocence

D Rubio - Synthese, 2022 - Springer
Quine taught us the difference between a theory's ontology and its ideology. Ontology is the
things a theory's quantifiers must range over if it is true, Ideology is the primitive concepts …

Quineanism, Noneism and Metaphysical Equivalence

B Jacinto, J Belastegui - Studia Logica, 2023 - Springer
In this paper we propose and defend the Synonymy account, a novel account of
metaphysical equivalence which draws on the idea (Rayo in The Construction of Logical …

[PDF][PDF] On Logical and Scientific Strength

C Nicolai, L Incurvati - ERKENNTNIS, 2024 - kclpure.kcl.ac.uk
The notion of strength has featured prominently in recent debates about abductivism in the
epistemology of logic. Following Timothy Williamson and Gillian Russell, we distinguish …

Modal logics that are both monotone and antitone: Makinson's extension results and affinities between logics

L Humberstone, ST Kuhn - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 2022 - projecteuclid.org
A notable early result of David Makinson establishes that every monotone modal logic can
be extended to LI, LV, or LF, and every antitone logic can be extended to LN, LV, or LF …

Essays in Formal Metaphysics

D Rubio - 2019 - search.proquest.com
The goal of my dissertation is to bring insights from branches of logic that are not well-
discussed in the literature, notably modal model theory, to bear on questions in the …

[HTML][HTML] On logical and scientific strength

L Incurvati, C Nicolai - Erkenntnis, 2024 - Springer
The notion of strength has featured prominently in recent debates about abductivism in the
epistemology of logic. Following Timothy Williamson and Gillian Russell, we distinguish …

[HTML][HTML] On Equivalence Relations Between Interpreted Languages, with an Application to Modal and First-Order Language

KF Wehmeier - Erkenntnis, 2023 - Springer
I examine notions of equivalence between logics (understood as languages interpreted
model-theoretically) and develop two new ones that invoke not only the algebraic but also …