Forthcoming Papers
Scott Soames
° Forthcoming in Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
To Appear in a symposium on Kit Fine's Semantic Relationalism
° Forthcoming
° Forthcoming
To Appear in Philosophical Topics
The Quine-Carnap Debate on Ontology and
Analyticity
° Forthcoming
To Appear in Metametaphysics: New Essays at the Foundations of Ontology, edited by David Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman.
The Possibility of Partial
Definition
° Forthcoming
To Appear in Arche Conference Volume on Vagueness
Kripke on Epistemic and Metaphysical Possibility
° Forthcoming in: Saul Kripke, edited by Alan Berger
The paper explains and distinguishes two Kripkean routes to the necessary aposteriori. One, based on essential properties, is philosophically correct and far-reaching. The second, based on strong disquotation and descriptive identification of the referents of names and natural kind terms, is incorrect and philosophically misleading.
Last updated: 12/17/08