Nolwenn Salmon
Biographic Data
| ID | 1053789 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Nolwenn Salmon |
| GIVEN NAMES | Nolwenn |
| FAMILY NAME | Salmon |
| SIGNATURE | SALMON N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Barbara |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3551-7435 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 65 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1979 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Could Have and Would Have
An alternative to the classical Stalnaker–Lewis account of subjunctive conditionals is outlined. A distinction is drawn between a basic notion of ‘wouldness’ and a more full‐bloodedly modal variant, each with its own logic. Previous philosophers have challenged the alleged vacuity of counterpossibles using logico‐mathematically impossible worlds. Here the vacuity thesis as well as other orthodox alleged logical principles are challenged more forc…
Ruffino on the Contingent A Priori
This is a rejoinder of sorts to Marco Ruffino’s critique in his book Contingent A Priori Truths (Springer, Switzerland, 2022) of my own criticism of Saul Kripke’s case for the contingent a priori. A distinction is drawn between knowledge concerning the meter stick S that its length is such-and-such and knowledge concerning S’s length that it is such-and-such
Alethic modalities
It is widely held that metaphysical modality is the broadest non-epistemic, alethic modality, and that a posteriori modal essentialist truths, like that gold has atomic number 79, enjoy the necessity of the broadest alethic modality. One prominent argument for these conclusions—given by Cian Dorr, John Hawthorne, and Juhani Yli-Vakkuri—rests upon an extremely dubious premise: that certain pairs of properties—e.g., being gold and being made of ato…
La confiance alimentaire en Chine
Le Monde, 3 mai 2013
From modality to millianism
A new argument is offered which proceeds through epistemic possibility ( for all S knows, p ), cutting a trail from modality to Millianism, the controversial thesis that the semantic content of a proper name is simply its bearer. New definitions are provided for various epistemic modal notions. A surprising theorem about epistemic necessity is proved. A proposition p can be epistemically necessary for a knowing subject S even though p is a poster…
Singular concepts
Alonzo Church proposed a powerful and elegant theory of sequences of functions and their arguments as surrogates for Russellian singular propositions and singular concepts. Church’s proposed theory accords with his Alternative (0), the strictest of his three competing criteria for strict synonymy. The currently popular objection to strict criteria like (0) on the basis of the Russell–Myhill antinomy is here rebutted. Russell–Myhill is not a probl…
Effective Procedures
The “somewhat vague, intuitive” notion from computability theory of an effective procedure (method) or algorithm can be fairly precisely defined, even if it does not have a purely mathematical definition—and even if (as many have asserted) for that reason, the Church–Turing thesis (that the effectively calculable functions on natural numbers are exactly the general recursive functions), cannot be proved. However, it is logically provable from the…
Acrobaties journalistiques
Première émettrice mondiale de CO 2 , la Chine prend l'enjeu écologique au sérieux. Face à la censure du Parti, le journalisme environnemental relève néanmoins de l'équilibrisme
The Legacy of Naming and Necessity 1
Requalification par les journalistes chinois de leur rôle dans la construction des problèmes publics environnementaux
FR. Alors que les journalistes militants ont été un rouage essentiel à la construction de l’environnement comme problème public en Chine, les jeunes journalistes cherchent au cours des années 2000 à se distinguer de leurs aînés en se faisant reconnaitre par la mise en avant d’un professionnalisme et d’une expertise indépendante et objective. Pourtant ce discours entre en contradiction avec leur aspiration à l’engagement. Ils continuent à jouer, d…
Modal paradox II: Essence and coherence
A paradox about sets of properties
Cognition and recognition
Expressions are synonymous if they have the same semantic content. Complex expressions are synonymously isomorphic in Alonzo Church’s sense if one is obtainable from the other by a sequence of alphabetic changes of bound variables or replacements of component expressions by syntactically simple synonyms. Synonymous isomorphism provides a very strict criterion for synonymy of sentences. Several eminent philosophers of language hold that synonymous…
Impossible Odds
A thesis (“weak BCP ”) nearly universally held among philosophers of probability connects the concepts of objective chance and metaphysical modality: Any prospect (outcome) that has a positive chance of obtaining is metaphysically possible—(nearly) equivalently, any metaphysically impossible prospect has zero chance. Particular counterexamples are provided utilizing the monotonicity of chance, one of them related to the four world paradox . Expla…
What is Existence?
Four accounts, three of them Kantian, of true sentences of the form ' exists' are contrasted. Russell's theory that such sentences are meaningless is contrasted with two other Kantian theories that are analogous to one another: Frege's semantic-ascent theory and the Frege-inspired ungerade (indirect, 'oblique') theory. Frege's objection to the semantic-ascent account of identity is applied, ironically with equal force, against his account of exis…
A Theory of Bondage
Research Article| October 01 2006 A Theory of Bondage Nathan Salmon Nathan Salmon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 415–448. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nathan Salmon; A Theory of Bondage. The Philosophical Review 1 October 2006; 115 (4): 415–448. doi: https://doi.org/10.…
Pronouns as Variables
Demonstrating and Necessity
and Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity (Harvard University Press
Demonstrating and Necessity
Research Article| October 01 2002 Demonstrating and Necessity Nathan Salmon Nathan Salmon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 497–537. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-4-497 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nathan Salmon; Demonstrating and Necessity. The Philosophical Review 1 October 2002; 111 (4): 497–537. doi: ht…
Analyticity and Apriority
Analyticity and Apriority (1993
Reflections on reflexivity
How not to become a Millian heir
Illogical Belief
The Logic of What Might Have Been
In earlier work I argued (following Hugh Chandler) that the conventionally accepted system S5 of (first-order) modal propositional logic, and even the weaker system S4, embody an invalid pattern of modal reasoning; they are fallacious systems for reasoning about what might have been.1 I argued, in fact, that the characteristic S4 axiom schema, IkDEIILI-or equivalently, the principle that for any necessarily true proposition p, the proposition tha…
XII—How to Measure the Standard Metre
Journal Article XII—How to Measure the Standard Metre Get access Nathan Salmon Nathan Salmon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 88, Issue 1, 1 June 1988, Pages 193–218, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/88.1.193 Published: 09 September 2015
Illogical Belief
The Logic of What Might Have Been
In earlier work I argued (following Hugh Chandler) that the conventionally accepted system S5 of (first-order) modal propositional logic, and even the weaker system S4, embody an invalid pattern of modal reasoning; they are fallacious systems for reasoning about what might have been.1 I argued, in fact, that the characteristic S4 axiom schema, IkDEIILI-or equivalently, the principle that for any necessarily true proposition p, the proposition tha…
Demonstrating and Necessity
Research Article| October 01 2002 Demonstrating and Necessity Nathan Salmon Nathan Salmon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 497–537. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-4-497 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nathan Salmon; Demonstrating and Necessity. The Philosophical Review 1 October 2002; 111 (4): 497–537. doi: ht…
A Theory of Bondage
Research Article| October 01 2006 A Theory of Bondage Nathan Salmon Nathan Salmon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 415–448. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nathan Salmon; A Theory of Bondage. The Philosophical Review 1 October 2006; 115 (4): 415–448. doi: https://doi.org/10.…
Reflections on reflexivity
Demonstrating and Necessity
and Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity (Harvard University Press
Analyticity and Apriority
Analyticity and Apriority (1993
Singular concepts
Alonzo Church proposed a powerful and elegant theory of sequences of functions and their arguments as surrogates for Russellian singular propositions and singular concepts. Church’s proposed theory accords with his Alternative (0), the strictest of his three competing criteria for strict synonymy. The currently popular objection to strict criteria like (0) on the basis of the Russell–Myhill antinomy is here rebutted. Russell–Myhill is not a probl…
Cognition and recognition
Expressions are synonymous if they have the same semantic content. Complex expressions are synonymously isomorphic in Alonzo Church’s sense if one is obtainable from the other by a sequence of alphabetic changes of bound variables or replacements of component expressions by syntactically simple synonyms. Synonymous isomorphism provides a very strict criterion for synonymy of sentences. Several eminent philosophers of language hold that synonymous…
How not to become a Millian heir
On the Plurality of Worlds
Frege's Puzzle
A paradox about sets of properties
Pronouns as Variables
How Not to Derive Essentialism from the Theory of Reference
Impossible Worlds
Reference and Essence.
In this new edition of an important work in the philosophy of language, Nathan U Salmon, one of the leading proponents of what has come to be called the new or causal theory of reference, presents his latest thinking on this promising area of study.
Frege's Puzzle
XII—How to Measure the Standard Metre
Journal Article XII—How to Measure the Standard Metre Get access Nathan Salmon Nathan Salmon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 88, Issue 1, 1 June 1988, Pages 193–218, https://doi.org/10.1093/aristotelian/88.1.193 Published: 09 September 2015
On the Plurality of Worlds
Illogical Belief
The Logic of What Might Have Been
In earlier work I argued (following Hugh Chandler) that the conventionally accepted system S5 of (first-order) modal propositional logic, and even the weaker system S4, embody an invalid pattern of modal reasoning; they are fallacious systems for reasoning about what might have been.1 I argued, in fact, that the characteristic S4 axiom schema, IkDEIILI-or equivalently, the principle that for any necessarily true proposition p, the proposition tha…
How not to become a Millian heir
Reflections on reflexivity
Analyticity and Apriority
Analyticity and Apriority (1993
Demonstrating and Necessity
and Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity (Harvard University Press
Demonstrating and Necessity
Research Article| October 01 2002 Demonstrating and Necessity Nathan Salmon Nathan Salmon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 497–537. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-4-497 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nathan Salmon; Demonstrating and Necessity. The Philosophical Review 1 October 2002; 111 (4): 497–537. doi: ht…
A Theory of Bondage
Research Article| October 01 2006 A Theory of Bondage Nathan Salmon Nathan Salmon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 415–448. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2006-009 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Nathan Salmon; A Theory of Bondage. The Philosophical Review 1 October 2006; 115 (4): 415–448. doi: https://doi.org/10.…
Pronouns as Variables
What is Existence?
Four accounts, three of them Kantian, of true sentences of the form ' exists' are contrasted. Russell's theory that such sentences are meaningless is contrasted with two other Kantian theories that are analogous to one another: Frege's semantic-ascent theory and the Frege-inspired ungerade (indirect, 'oblique') theory. Frege's objection to the semantic-ascent account of identity is applied, ironically with equal force, against his account of exis…
Cognition and recognition
Expressions are synonymous if they have the same semantic content. Complex expressions are synonymously isomorphic in Alonzo Church’s sense if one is obtainable from the other by a sequence of alphabetic changes of bound variables or replacements of component expressions by syntactically simple synonyms. Synonymous isomorphism provides a very strict criterion for synonymy of sentences. Several eminent philosophers of language hold that synonymous…
Impossible Odds
A thesis (“weak BCP ”) nearly universally held among philosophers of probability connects the concepts of objective chance and metaphysical modality: Any prospect (outcome) that has a positive chance of obtaining is metaphysically possible—(nearly) equivalently, any metaphysically impossible prospect has zero chance. Particular counterexamples are provided utilizing the monotonicity of chance, one of them related to the four world paradox . Expla…
Modal paradox II: Essence and coherence
A paradox about sets of properties
The Legacy of Naming and Necessity 1
Requalification par les journalistes chinois de leur rôle dans la construction des problèmes publics environnementaux
FR. Alors que les journalistes militants ont été un rouage essentiel à la construction de l’environnement comme problème public en Chine, les jeunes journalistes cherchent au cours des années 2000 à se distinguer de leurs aînés en se faisant reconnaitre par la mise en avant d’un professionnalisme et d’une expertise indépendante et objective. Pourtant ce discours entre en contradiction avec leur aspiration à l’engagement. Ils continuent à jouer, d…
Effective Procedures
The “somewhat vague, intuitive” notion from computability theory of an effective procedure (method) or algorithm can be fairly precisely defined, even if it does not have a purely mathematical definition—and even if (as many have asserted) for that reason, the Church–Turing thesis (that the effectively calculable functions on natural numbers are exactly the general recursive functions), cannot be proved. However, it is logically provable from the…
Acrobaties journalistiques
Première émettrice mondiale de CO 2 , la Chine prend l'enjeu écologique au sérieux. Face à la censure du Parti, le journalisme environnemental relève néanmoins de l'équilibrisme
From modality to millianism
A new argument is offered which proceeds through epistemic possibility ( for all S knows, p ), cutting a trail from modality to Millianism, the controversial thesis that the semantic content of a proper name is simply its bearer. New definitions are provided for various epistemic modal notions. A surprising theorem about epistemic necessity is proved. A proposition p can be epistemically necessary for a knowing subject S even though p is a poster…
Philosophy (19 works) · Epistemology (17 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (15 works) · Computer Science (14 works) · Philosophy (8 works) · Classical Philosophy and Thought (7 works) · Metaphysics (7 works) · Philosophy of language (7 works) · Contemporary philosophy (6 works) · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge (6 works)