FREGEAN SENSE AND ANTI-INDIVIDUALISM

Fregean Sense and Anti-Individualism

Sameness of Fregean sense

This paper develops a criterion for sameness of Fregean senses. I consider three criteria: logical equivalence, intensional isomorphism, and epistemic equipollence. I reject the first two and argue for a version of the third.

Frontloading and Fregean Sense: Reply to Neta, Schroeter, and Stanley

I would like to thank Ram Neta, Laura Schroeter, and Jason Stanley for their generous and probing comments on Constructing the World. 1 All three of them home in on key issues in the argumentation of the book. Neta and Schroeter focus on the argument for A Priori Scrutability, and especially the key frontloading argument for that thesis. Stanley focuses on whether the semantic values that are d...

BOOK REVIEWS About a mature theory of Fregean sense

The book develops a theory of Fregean sense to a mature form. It consists of only five chapters, which is perhaps surprising given its volume. The first chapter, “A programme of general semantics”, describes the philosophical foundations of procedural semantics informally and then presents the technical fundamentals of this programme. This chapter is crucial for the comprehension of the book, a...

Anti-Individualism, Content Preservation, and Discursive Justification

Most explorations of the epistemic implications of Semantic AntiIndividualism (SAI) focus on issues of self-knowledge (first-person authority) and/or external-world skepticism. Less explored has been SAI’s implications for the epistemology of reasoning. In this paper I argue that SAI has some nontrivial implications on this score. I bring these out by reflecting on a problem first raised by Bog...