Replies to Wang, Speaks, and Pautz

Replies to Wang, Speaks, and Pautz

I A logically valid argument preserves truth in virtue of form. A modally valid argument is such that, necessarily, if its premises are true then its conclusion is true. I say that logically valid arguments express modally valid arguments. That is, I say that the sentences that are the premises and conclusion of a logically valid argument express propositions, and those propositions are themsel...

Nudge, Embarrassment, and Restriction—Replies to Voigt, Tieffenbach, and Saghai

Replies to Sullivan and Lange

The explanatory criterion of relevance. The ordering of (possible and impossible) worlds by their closeness to actuality is determined by weighing the different similarities they have to actuality. The similarities to actuality that can make a world closer include resemblances in matters of particular fact. (A matter of particular fact is a fact about the history of the universe that is not ent...

Replies to our Critics

We are grateful to José Bermúdez and to Andrea Cristiano Pierno, Caterina Ansuini and Umberto Castiello for reading and criticizing our book. They offer us an opportunity to clarify some of our views. Bermúdez discusses aspects of our version of the two-visual systems model of human vision bearing on the separation between the content of visuomotor representations and the content of visual perc...

Replies to Michael Kremer

First, is existence really not essential by my definition? My answer is that it is neither universally essential, nor universally non-essential, and not by the definition Michael considers. The reason for this answer is that the definition Michael considers does not express the sense in which I claim (as I believe, together with Aquinas) that ‘exists’ is not an essential predicate of creatures,...