Juhani Yli‐vakkuri
Biographic Data
| ID | 3866069 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Juhani Yli‐vakkuri |
| GIVEN NAMES | Juhani |
| FAMILY NAME | Yli‐vakkuri |
| SIGNATURE | VAKKURI J Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Australian Catholic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6929-0913 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unknowable Truths in advance
Reply to Bourget and Mendelovici
We detect three main critical ideas in Bourget and Mendelovici's (2022; henceforth BM) discussion of Narrow Content (Yli-Vakkuri and Hawthorne 2018). We will discuss each in this reply
The Paradox of Luminosity
We explore the consequences of a natural and well‐motivated modeling assumption of Bayesian epistemology, according to which the objects of credence are sentences in the agent's language. We show that this assumption is inconsistent with two further natural Bayesian idealizations: those of Logical Perfection (the logical‐deductive consistency and closure of the sentences in which the agent is certain) and of perfect access to (i.e., certainty reg…
Being in a position to know
Reply to Pietroski
Reply to Speaks
Précis of narrow content
Reply to Byrne
Vagueness & Modality—An Ecumenical Approach
Propositions and Compositionality
A semantic value assignment for a language L is a function [[ ]] from the expressions of L to entities of some kind.A semantic value assignment is said to be compositional for a particular n-place syntactic operation O just in case the following condition holds.There is a function h such that, for all X 1 , . . .,A semantic value assignment for L is said to be compositional just in case it is compositional for every syntactic operation in L. 2 Wh…
Conditional and Habitual Analyses of Disposition Ascriptions
Michael Fara's ‘habitual analysis’ of disposition ascriptions is equivalent to a kind of ceteris paribus conditional analysis which has no evident advantage over Martin's well known and simpler analysis. I describe an unsatisfactory hypothetical response to Martin's challenge, which is lacking in just the same respect as the analysis considered by Martin; Fara's habitual analysis is equivalent to this hypothetical analysis. The feature of the hab…
Propositions and Compositionality
A semantic value assignment for a language L is a function [[ ]] from the expressions of L to entities of some kind.A semantic value assignment is said to be compositional for a particular n-place syntactic operation O just in case the following condition holds.There is a function h such that, for all X 1 , . . .,A semantic value assignment for L is said to be compositional just in case it is compositional for every syntactic operation in L. 2 Wh…
Conditional and Habitual Analyses of Disposition Ascriptions
Michael Fara's ‘habitual analysis’ of disposition ascriptions is equivalent to a kind of ceteris paribus conditional analysis which has no evident advantage over Martin's well known and simpler analysis. I describe an unsatisfactory hypothetical response to Martin's challenge, which is lacking in just the same respect as the analysis considered by Martin; Fara's habitual analysis is equivalent to this hypothetical analysis. The feature of the hab…
Vagueness & Modality—An Ecumenical Approach
Conditional and Habitual Analyses of Disposition Ascriptions
Michael Fara's ‘habitual analysis’ of disposition ascriptions is equivalent to a kind of ceteris paribus conditional analysis which has no evident advantage over Martin's well known and simpler analysis. I describe an unsatisfactory hypothetical response to Martin's challenge, which is lacking in just the same respect as the analysis considered by Martin; Fara's habitual analysis is equivalent to this hypothetical analysis. The feature of the hab…
Propositions and Compositionality
A semantic value assignment for a language L is a function [[ ]] from the expressions of L to entities of some kind.A semantic value assignment is said to be compositional for a particular n-place syntactic operation O just in case the following condition holds.There is a function h such that, for all X 1 , . . .,A semantic value assignment for L is said to be compositional just in case it is compositional for every syntactic operation in L. 2 Wh…
Vagueness & Modality—An Ecumenical Approach
Reply to Pietroski
Reply to Speaks
Précis of narrow content
Reply to Byrne
Being in a position to know
Reply to Bourget and Mendelovici
We detect three main critical ideas in Bourget and Mendelovici's (2022; henceforth BM) discussion of Narrow Content (Yli-Vakkuri and Hawthorne 2018). We will discuss each in this reply
The Paradox of Luminosity
We explore the consequences of a natural and well‐motivated modeling assumption of Bayesian epistemology, according to which the objects of credence are sentences in the agent's language. We show that this assumption is inconsistent with two further natural Bayesian idealizations: those of Logical Perfection (the logical‐deductive consistency and closure of the sentences in which the agent is certain) and of perfect access to (i.e., certainty reg…
Unknowable Truths in advance
Philosophy (9 works) · Epistemology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics (5 works) · Philosophy and Theoretical Science (5 works) · Mathematics (4 works) · Metaphysics (4 works) · Philosophy of language (4 works) · Philosophy of mind (4 works) · Content (measure theory) (3 works)