Earl Swanson
Biographic Data
| ID | 246376 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Earl Swanson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Earl |
| FAMILY NAME | Swanson |
| SIGNATURE | SWANSON E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Michigan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1337-4047 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1954 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Embodiment and Subjugation
This article is an examination of a ritual program created by the Buddhist monk Jien (1155–1225) at the Temple of Great Repentance (daisenpō-in, 大懺法院), established in 1206 in the proximity of the Heian capital (present-day Kyoto). It illustrates how the practice of exoteric-esoteric rituals were negotiated and reimagined to address growing concerns of social disorder. In his writing, Jien suggested that vengeful spirits (onryō, 怨霊) were responsib…
Channels for Common Ground
One potentially ethically relevant feature of an utterance is that utterance's influence on the likelihoods that our future discourses wind up with one Stalnakerian ‘common ground’ or body of shared information rather than another. Such likelihoods matter ethically, so the ways our utterances influence them can matter ethically, despite the fact that such influences are often unintended, and often hard to see. By offering a relatively neutral des…
Indeterminacy in Causation
I argue that there are some causal relata for which it is indeterminate whether one caused the other. Positing indeterminacy in causation helps us defend contested principles in the logic of causation and makes possible new ways of thinking about the theoretical impact of symmetric causal overdetermination. I close by discussing amendments of current theories of causation that would help explain causal indeterminacy.
Ordering Supervaluationism, Counterpart Theory, and Ersatz Fundamentality
Conditional Excluded Middle without the Limit Assumption
Stalnaker have some sharp disagreements over how we talk about modality.For example, Stalnaker endorsesThe limit assumption for counterfactuals: ''for every possible world i and non-empty proposition A, there is at least one A-world minimally different from i.'' (Stalnaker 1980, 89; see also Pollock 1976, 18-20, Herzberger 1979, and Warmbr od 1982.)But Lewis famously objects that counterfactually supposing that a given line had been more than an …
On Scope Relations between Quantifiers and Epistemic Modals
This article presents and discusses a range of counterexamples to the common view that quantifiers cannot take scope over epistemic modals. Some of the counterexamples raise problems for ‘force modifier’ theories of epistemic modals. Some of the counterexamples raise problems for Robert Stalnaker's theory of counterfactuals, according to which a special kind of epistemic modal must be able to scope over a whole counterfactual. Finally, some of th…
Reflections on Meaning
Book Review| January 01 2009 Reflections on Meaning Paul Horwich, Reflections on Meaning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. vii + 236 pp. Eric Swanson Eric Swanson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 131–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-037 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter …
Modality in Language
This article discusses some of the ways in which natural language can express modal information - information which is, to a first approximation, about what could be or must be the case, as opposed to being about what actually is the case. It motivates, explains, and raises problems for Angelika Kratzer's influential theory of modal auxiliaries, and introduces a new approach to one important debate about the relationships between modality, eviden…
A new database on human capital stock in developing and industrial countries
An Archaeological Survey of Caves in Washington
During a long period of the time when archaeological research was in progress in other areas of North America, the Columbia Plateau and western Washington lay relatively untouched and unknown. Only recently have systematic studies been undertaken by the University of Washington.The archaeological survey of cave sites in Washington, during the summer of 1952, is a part of those studies. The plan was to locate as many caves as possible, to determin…
A new database on human capital stock in developing and industrial countries
Modality in Language
This article discusses some of the ways in which natural language can express modal information - information which is, to a first approximation, about what could be or must be the case, as opposed to being about what actually is the case. It motivates, explains, and raises problems for Angelika Kratzer's influential theory of modal auxiliaries, and introduces a new approach to one important debate about the relationships between modality, eviden…
Conditional Excluded Middle without the Limit Assumption
Stalnaker have some sharp disagreements over how we talk about modality.For example, Stalnaker endorsesThe limit assumption for counterfactuals: ''for every possible world i and non-empty proposition A, there is at least one A-world minimally different from i.'' (Stalnaker 1980, 89; see also Pollock 1976, 18-20, Herzberger 1979, and Warmbr od 1982.)But Lewis famously objects that counterfactually supposing that a given line had been more than an …
Ordering Supervaluationism, Counterpart Theory, and Ersatz Fundamentality
Channels for Common Ground
One potentially ethically relevant feature of an utterance is that utterance's influence on the likelihoods that our future discourses wind up with one Stalnakerian ‘common ground’ or body of shared information rather than another. Such likelihoods matter ethically, so the ways our utterances influence them can matter ethically, despite the fact that such influences are often unintended, and often hard to see. By offering a relatively neutral des…
An Archaeological Survey of Caves in Washington
During a long period of the time when archaeological research was in progress in other areas of North America, the Columbia Plateau and western Washington lay relatively untouched and unknown. Only recently have systematic studies been undertaken by the University of Washington.The archaeological survey of cave sites in Washington, during the summer of 1952, is a part of those studies. The plan was to locate as many caves as possible, to determin…
A new database on human capital stock in developing and industrial countries
Modality in Language
This article discusses some of the ways in which natural language can express modal information - information which is, to a first approximation, about what could be or must be the case, as opposed to being about what actually is the case. It motivates, explains, and raises problems for Angelika Kratzer's influential theory of modal auxiliaries, and introduces a new approach to one important debate about the relationships between modality, eviden…
Reflections on Meaning
Book Review| January 01 2009 Reflections on Meaning Paul Horwich, Reflections on Meaning. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. vii + 236 pp. Eric Swanson Eric Swanson Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (1): 131–134. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2008-037 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter …
On Scope Relations between Quantifiers and Epistemic Modals
This article presents and discusses a range of counterexamples to the common view that quantifiers cannot take scope over epistemic modals. Some of the counterexamples raise problems for ‘force modifier’ theories of epistemic modals. Some of the counterexamples raise problems for Robert Stalnaker's theory of counterfactuals, according to which a special kind of epistemic modal must be able to scope over a whole counterfactual. Finally, some of th…
Conditional Excluded Middle without the Limit Assumption
Stalnaker have some sharp disagreements over how we talk about modality.For example, Stalnaker endorsesThe limit assumption for counterfactuals: ''for every possible world i and non-empty proposition A, there is at least one A-world minimally different from i.'' (Stalnaker 1980, 89; see also Pollock 1976, 18-20, Herzberger 1979, and Warmbr od 1982.)But Lewis famously objects that counterfactually supposing that a given line had been more than an …
Ordering Supervaluationism, Counterpart Theory, and Ersatz Fundamentality
Indeterminacy in Causation
I argue that there are some causal relata for which it is indeterminate whether one caused the other. Positing indeterminacy in causation helps us defend contested principles in the logic of causation and makes possible new ways of thinking about the theoretical impact of symmetric causal overdetermination. I close by discussing amendments of current theories of causation that would help explain causal indeterminacy.
Channels for Common Ground
One potentially ethically relevant feature of an utterance is that utterance's influence on the likelihoods that our future discourses wind up with one Stalnakerian ‘common ground’ or body of shared information rather than another. Such likelihoods matter ethically, so the ways our utterances influence them can matter ethically, despite the fact that such influences are often unintended, and often hard to see. By offering a relatively neutral des…
Embodiment and Subjugation
This article is an examination of a ritual program created by the Buddhist monk Jien (1155–1225) at the Temple of Great Repentance (daisenpō-in, 大懺法院), established in 1206 in the proximity of the Heian capital (present-day Kyoto). It illustrates how the practice of exoteric-esoteric rituals were negotiated and reimagined to address growing concerns of social disorder. In his writing, Jien suggested that vengeful spirits (onryō, 怨霊) were responsib…
Philosophy (8 works) · Epistemology (7 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (4 works) · History (3 works) · Linguistics (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (3 works)