James A Woodbridge
Biographic Data
| ID | 1137679 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James A Woodbridge |
| GIVEN NAMES | James A |
| FAMILY NAME | Woodbridge |
| SIGNATURE | WOODBRIDGE J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Nevada, Las Vegas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9248-1021 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sentential-variable deflationism and adverbial quantification
In this paper, we develop a particular approach within deflationary theorizing about truth-talk in natural language. Deflationists often maintain that truth-talk is indispensable and that the expressive roles that truth-talk plays exhaust the discourse’s purpose and operation. One way to present this latter thesis is by saying that the central function of truth-talk is to express what would otherwise require sentential variables and quantifiers. …
Revenge for Alethic Nihilism
In "Nothing Is True," Will Gamester defends a form of alethic nihilism that still grants truth-talk a kind of legitimacy: an expressive role that is implemented via a pretense. He argues that this view has all of the strengths of deflationism, while also providing an elegant resolution of the Liar Paradox and its kin. For the alethic nihilist, Liar and related sentences are not true, and that is the end of the story. No contradiction arises becau…
Answering the conceptual challenge: Three strategies for deflationists
The Alethic Platitudes, Deflationism, and Adverbial Quantification
Alethic pluralists often claim that accommodating certain alethic platitudes motivates rejecting deflationism in favour of a pluralist inflationism about truth. Deflationists claim that the logical role of the truth predicate, viz providing something equivalent to variables for sentence-in-use positions and quantifiers governing them, is sufficient to account for the appeal to truth in the alethic platitudes. Surprisingly, however, most deflation…
From Mathematical Fictionalism to Truth‐Theoretic Fictionalism
Liars, truthtellers, and naysayers: A broader view of semantic pathology I
The pathology of validity
Propositions as semantic pretense
Semantic Pathology and the Open Pair
Semantic Pathology and the Open Pair
The Alethic Platitudes, Deflationism, and Adverbial Quantification
Alethic pluralists often claim that accommodating certain alethic platitudes motivates rejecting deflationism in favour of a pluralist inflationism about truth. Deflationists claim that the logical role of the truth predicate, viz providing something equivalent to variables for sentence-in-use positions and quantifiers governing them, is sufficient to account for the appeal to truth in the alethic platitudes. Surprisingly, however, most deflation…
Liars, truthtellers, and naysayers: A broader view of semantic pathology I
The pathology of validity
Propositions as semantic pretense
Semantic Pathology and the Open Pair
Propositions as semantic pretense
The pathology of validity
Liars, truthtellers, and naysayers: A broader view of semantic pathology I
From Mathematical Fictionalism to Truth‐Theoretic Fictionalism
Answering the conceptual challenge: Three strategies for deflationists
The Alethic Platitudes, Deflationism, and Adverbial Quantification
Alethic pluralists often claim that accommodating certain alethic platitudes motivates rejecting deflationism in favour of a pluralist inflationism about truth. Deflationists claim that the logical role of the truth predicate, viz providing something equivalent to variables for sentence-in-use positions and quantifiers governing them, is sufficient to account for the appeal to truth in the alethic platitudes. Surprisingly, however, most deflation…
Revenge for Alethic Nihilism
In "Nothing Is True," Will Gamester defends a form of alethic nihilism that still grants truth-talk a kind of legitimacy: an expressive role that is implemented via a pretense. He argues that this view has all of the strengths of deflationism, while also providing an elegant resolution of the Liar Paradox and its kin. For the alethic nihilist, Liar and related sentences are not true, and that is the end of the story. No contradiction arises becau…
Sentential-variable deflationism and adverbial quantification
In this paper, we develop a particular approach within deflationary theorizing about truth-talk in natural language. Deflationists often maintain that truth-talk is indispensable and that the expressive roles that truth-talk plays exhaust the discourse’s purpose and operation. One way to present this latter thesis is by saying that the central function of truth-talk is to express what would otherwise require sentential variables and quantifiers. …
Philosophy (9 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (9 works) · Epistemology (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Philosophy and History of Science (3 works) · Adverbial (2 works) · Citation (2 works)