Conditionals, Predicates and Probability . Adams's Thesis is meant to explain our judgements about the validity of arguments involving conditionals. I note it goes wrong in some simple cases involving quantifiers. Definite Descriptions and Speech Reports . This new argument seems immune, or at least resistant, to the objections raised against Donnellan's theory in the last thirty years.
Traditional philosophy talks a lot about beliefs.
Modern philosophy talks a lot about degrees of belief. We offer a contextualist account of belief to handle the most obvious counterexamples. Published and forthcoming journal articles Indicatives and Subjunctives . Some people have thought that the differing behaviour of modally rigid terms in indicatives and subjunctives makes it impossible to provide a unified semantics for all conditionals. I show that this is false by outlining a possible worlds semantics for indicatives that accounts for rigid terms.