Graeme Forbes

Biographic Data

ID3698223
NAMEGraeme Forbes
GIVEN NAMESGraeme
FAMILY NAMEForbes
SIGNATUREFORBES G
AFFILIATIONSTulane University
ORCID0000-0001-9499-1789
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS34
TOTAL CITATIONS49
AUTHOR COUNT33
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1981
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX4

  • Discussion of Julian Baggini's ‘Comedy as Philosophy’

    Open AccessJulian Baggini, Chelsea Birkby et al.ARTICLERoyal Institute of Philosophy…2024

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  • Discussion of Lucy O'Brien's ‘Priests of the Absurd: What are Stand-Up Comedians Doing When They Invite Us to Laugh at Their Failures?’

    Open AccessGraeme Forbes, Graeme A Forbes et al.ARTICLERoyal Institute of Philosophy…2024

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  • Philosophy of Time: The Basics

    Graeme ForbesBOOKPhilosophy of Time2024

    What is time? Does it pass? Is the future open? Why do we care? Philosophy of Time: The Basics doesn’t answer these questions. It does give you an opinionated introduction to thinking a bit more deeply about them. Written in a way that assumes no philosophical background from its readers, this book looks at central topics in philosophy of time and shows how they relate to other time-related topics – from theoretical physics (without the maths!) t…

  • Enduring senses

    Open AccessGraeme Forbes, Graeme A Forbes et al.ARTICLESynthese2022References: 43

    The meanings of words seem to change over time. But while there is a growing body of literature in linguistics and philosophy about meaning change, there has been little discussion about the metaphysical underpinnings of meaning change. The central aim of this paper is to push this discussion forward by surveying the terrain and advocating for a particular metaphysical picture. In so doing, we hope to clarify various aspects of the nature of mean…

  • Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Vol. 5

    Graeme Forbes, G A ForbesARTICLEAnalysis2010

    Journal Article Oxford Studies in Metaphysics: Vol. 5 Get access Graeme A. Forbes Graeme A. Forbes University of Sheffield Sheffield S10 2TN [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Analysis, Volume 70, Issue 3, July 2010, Pages 571–577, https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anq051 Published: 03 June 2010

  • Intensional verbs in event semantics

    Open AccessGraeme ForbesARTICLESynthese2010Cited by: 1References: 18

  • Critical Notice of Kit Fine's Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers

    Graeme ForbesARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2008

    In this critical review I discuss the main themes of the papers in Kit Fine's Modality and Tense: Philosophical Papers. These themes are that modal operators are intelligible in their own right and that actualist quantifiers are to be taken as basic with respect to possibilist quantifiers. I also discuss a previously unpublished paper of Fine's on modality and existence

  • Attitude Problems: An Essay on Linguistic Intensionality

    Graeme ForbesBOOKATTITUDE PROBLEMS: AN ESSAY ON…2006

    Ascriptions of mental states to oneself and others give rise to many interesting logical and semantic problems, 'Attitude Problems' presents an original account of mental state ascriptions that are made using intensional transitive verbs such as 'want', 'seek', 'imagine', and 'worship'

  • Meaning-Postulates, Inference,and the Relational/Notional Ambiguity

    Graeme Forbes, Peter LangARTICLEFacta Philosophica2003

    This paper is a draft of work in progress. Please do not cite without first checking with me. 11/9/02 1 What notional readings mean Some attitude ascriptions use quantified or possessive noun phrases (qnp’s or pnp’s) in the specification of the content of the attitude being ascribed. When the ascription is propositional, this gives rise to an ambiguity Quine (1955) labelled “relational/notional”. For example, (1) Oedipus wants to marry a member o…

  • Prior on Logic, Language, and the World

    Open AccessGraeme ForbesARTICLEDialogue2000

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  • Objectual Attitudes

    Open AccessGraeme ForbesARTICLELinguistics and Philosophy2000Cited by: 13

  • Substitutivity and the Coherence of Quantifying In

    Graeme ForbesARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1996Cited by: 2

  • A New Riddle of Existence

    Graeme ForbesARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives1994Cited by: 2

    The Eiffel Tower is a structure in wrought iron weighing 7,000 tonnes. It is composed of 18,000 precision-manufactured pieces fastened together by 2,500,000 rivets. Its foundations, opposite the Palais de Chaillot, were completed on June 3

  • Languages of Possibility

    Mark Richard, Graeme ForbesARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1994

  • Modern logic: A Text in Elementary Symbolic Logic

    Graeme ForbesBOOKModern logic1994

  • Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology

    John Haldane, Hans Burkhardt et al.BOOKHandbook of Metaphysics and…1991

    Plantinga on Essentialism, Sklar on Space-Time, Stroll on Surfaces and Walton on Fiction are all examples.This two-volume work is clearly printed and well constructed, being likely to withstand the wear a reference text can be expected to suffer.It is a delight to dip into; the phrase 'hard to put down' is certainly apt.At £210, however, it is not likely to appeal to individual buyers and, notwithstanding its merits, I cannot say that the conside…

  • A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility

    Graeme Forbes, D M ArmstrongARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1991

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access A Combinatorial Theory of Possibility. By D. M. Armstrong. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989. Pp. xiii + 156. Price £7.95.) Graeme Forbes Graeme Forbes Tulane University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 41, Issue 164, July 1991, Pages 350–352, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220038 Published: 01 July 1991

  • The Indispensability of Sinn

    Graeme ForbesARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1990Cited by: 13

  • Languages of Possibility

    Joseph Melia, Graeme ForbesARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1990

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Languages of Possibility. By Graeme Forbes. (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. xi + 181. Price £39.50.) Joseph Melia Joseph Melia Jesus College, Cambridge Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 40, Issue 159, April 1990, Pages 271–273, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219821 Published: 01 April 1990

  • The Metaphysics of Modality

    Mark A Brown, Graeme ForbesARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…1990

  • Biosemantics and the Normative Properties of Thought

    Graeme ForbesARTICLEPhilosophical Perspectives1989References: 1

    That the semantic properties of words and sentences have normative aspects is a commonplace. According to some philosophers, particularly Dummett, these normative aspects individuate semantic properties. For example, in the case of a sentence, they individuate its meaning, or the proposition it expresses: the meaning is a rule that determines under what conditions the sentence is properly assertible or justifiably assertible (Dummett 1982). In Du…

  • Conditions of Identity

    Graeme Forbes, Andrew BrennanARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1989

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access Conditions of Identity. By Andrew Brennan. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Pp. ix + 375.) Graeme Forbes Graeme Forbes Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Edinburgh University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 39, Issue 156, July 1989, Pages 368–370, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220181 Published: 01 July 1989

  • The Metaphysics of Modality

    Phillip Bricker, Graeme ForbesARTICLEThe Philosophical Review1988

  • The Metaphysics of Modality

    Dorothy Edgington, Graeme ForbesARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1988

    Journal Article Book Reviews Get access The Metaphysics of Modality. By Graeme Forbes. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1985. Pp. vi + 257. Price £22.50.) Dorothy Edgington Dorothy Edgington Birkbeck College Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, Issue 152, July 1988, Pages 365–370, https://doi.org/10.2307/2220135 Published: 01 July 1988

  • The Plurality of Worlds

    Graeme Forbes, David LewisARTICLEThe Philosophical Quarterly1988