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2. 1. Knowledge Closure and Knowledge Openness : A Study of Epistemic Closure Principles

   Author : Levi Spectre; Peter Pagin; Åsa Wikforss; Stewart Cohen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; knowledge; principle of epistemic closure; knowledge openness; evidence; epistemic principles; skepticism; fallibilism; principles of evidence; evidence openness; dogmatism; safety; chance; Bayesianism; Carnap; Cohen; Dretske; Hawthorne; Hempel; Kripke; Nozick; Pagin; Vogel; Williamson; Theoretical philosophy; Teoretisk filosofi; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : The principle of epistemic closure is the claim that what is known to follow from knowledge is known to be true. This intuitively plausible idea is endorsed by a vast majority of knowledge theorists. There are significant problems, however, that have to be addressed if epistemic closure – closed knowledge – is endorsed. READ MORE

4. 2. Ideas for a theory of rules

   Author : Peter Pagin; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Filosofi;

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5. 3. Philosophy of Mathematics for the Masses : Extending the scope of the philosophy of mathematics

   Author : Stefan Buijsman; Peter Pagin; Oystein Linnebo; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Benacerraf; Epistemology; Semantics; Mathematics; Mathematical practice; filosofi; Philosophy;

   Abstract : One of the important discussions in the philosophy of mathematics, is that centered on Benacerraf’s Dilemma. Benacerraf’s dilemma challenges theorists to provide an epistemology and semantics for mathematics, based on their favourite ontology. READ MORE

6. 4. Deflationism : A Use-Theoretic Analysis of the Truth-Predicate

   Author : Arvid Båve; Peter Pagin; Panu Raatikainen; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; truth; deflationism; disquotationalism; proposition; use-theory; semantics; nominalism; inferentialism; assertibility; that-clause; singular term; Tarski; Horwich; Field; meaning; Philosophy subjects; Filosofiämnen;

   Abstract : I here develop a specific version of the deflationary theory of truth. I adopt a terminology on which deflationism holds that an exhaustive account of truth is given by the equivalence between truth-ascriptions and de-nominalised (or disquoted) sentences. READ MORE

7. 5. Analyticity, Necessity and Belief : Aspects of two-dimensional semantics

   Author : Eric Johannesson; Peter Pagin; Dag Westerståhl; Graeme Forbes; Stockholms universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; two-dimensional semantics; quantified modal logic; propositional attitudes; belief ascriptions; Kripke; descriptivism; necessity; apriority; analyticity; Theoretical Philosophy; teoretisk filosofi;

   Abstract : A glass couldn't contain water unless it contained H2O-molecules. Likewise, a man couldn't be a bachelor unless he was unmarried. Now, the latter is what we would call a conceptual or analytical truth. It's also what we would call a priori. READ MORE