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Fall 2015
The first chapter of the thesis presents Frank P. Ramsey [1960]’s seminal treatment of “If ... , then ...” statements. We also explain how Stalnaker and Thomason [1970] picked up on Ramsey’s idea and undertook the task of giving truth conditions for counterfactual conditionals in contrast to...
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Fall 2010
Fictional characters pose interesting questions both to metaphysics and philosophy of language. We appear to have two incompatible intuitions about fictional characters: 1) fictional characters are created and 2) fictional characters are nonexistent. To say something is created is to say that it...
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Fall 2013
Drawing upon Marie McGinn's non-metaphysical interpretation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus, this thesis attempts to make a connection between the book’s opening and ending remarks. I argue that McGinn's non-metaphysical reading helps us, more than the metaphysical reading, to make a consistent...
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Fall 2014
This thesis investigates the status of Mathematical Induction (MI) in an axiomatic system. It first reviews and analyses the status of MI in the works of Gotlob Frege and Richard Dedekind, the pioneers of logicism who, in providing foundations for arithmetic, attempted to reduce MI to what they...
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A Defense of Bertrand Russell’s Theory of Definite Descriptions against Donnellan’s Distinction
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According to Russell’s theory of descriptions, a sentence of the form “The F is G” expresses the general proposition There is exactly one F and whatever is an F is G. According to Donnellan, there are two types of uses of a definite description: an attributive use and a referential use. A...
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Fall 2018
Linsky and Zalta present a possible way to reconcile the Barcan Formula with actualism by positing contingently non-concrete objects. However, it has been argued that an actualism based on the existence of contingently non- concrete objects is not genuinely actualist, because contingently...