David E Taylor

Biographic Data

ID5911089
NAMEDavid E Taylor
GIVEN NAMESDavid E
FAMILY NAMETaylor
SIGNATURETAYLOR D E
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Minnesota
ORCID0000-0002-1419-0971
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS10
TOTAL CITATIONS14
WORKS AS AUTHOR10
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1999
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2024
H-INDEX2

  • Akiba's logic of indeterminacy

    David E TaylorARTICLEInquiry2024

    A standard approach to indeterminacy treats ‘determinately’ and ‘indeterminately’ as modal operators. Determinacy behaves like necessity; indeterminacy like contingency. This raises two questions. What is the appropriate modal system for these operators? And how should we interpret that system? Ken Akiba has developed an account of ontic indeterminacy that interprets possible worlds as worldly precisifications. He argues that this account vindica…

  • The representation and determinable structure of quantum properties

    Open AccessSamuel C Fletcher, David E TaylorARTICLESynthese2024References: 24

  • Reference for neo-Fregeans

    Open AccessDavid E TaylorARTICLESynthese2021References: 27

  • Quantum indeterminacy and the eigenstate-eigenvalue link

    Open AccessSamuel C Fletcher, David E TaylorARTICLESynthese2021Cited by: 5References: 28

  • Two quantum logics of indeterminacy

    Open AccessSamuel C Fletcher, David E TaylorARTICLESynthese2021Cited by: 2References: 33

  • Deflationism, Creeping Minimalism, and Explanations of Content

    Open AccessDavid E TaylorARTICLEPhilosophy and Phenomenological…2019Cited by: 6References: 2

    Metaethics, like many areas of philosophy, has for some time now been experiencing a trend toward deflationary conceptions of truth. This is owing both to a general skepticism about the prospects of any substantial account of truth and also to the “accommodationist” strategies of metaethical expressivists. But I'm skeptical of this trend toward deflationism. The main source of my skepticism, and what I explore in this paper, is the simple fact th…

  • Deflationism and Referential Indeterminacy

    David E TaylorARTICLEThe Philosophical Review2017Cited by: 1References: 31

    This essay argues that deflationism (about truth and reference) is incompatible with the phenomenon of referential indeterminacy (RI). This puts the deflationist in the difficult position of having to deny the possibility of what otherwise seems like a manifest and theoretically important phenomenon. Section 1 provides background on deflationism. Section 2 considers an intuitive argument by Stephen Leeds to the effect that deflationism precludes …

  • Quine on matters of fact

    Open AccessDavid E TaylorARTICLESynthese2016References: 25

  • Pyrrhonian Skepticism, Value Nihilism and the Good of Knowledge

    David E Taylor, Mathesis PublicationsARTICLEAncient Philosophy2014

  • A capstone computer engineering design course

    Open AccessWilliam D Richard, David E Taylor et al.ARTICLEIEEE Transactions on Education1999

    This paper describes the senior computer engineering capstone design course at Washington University in St. Louis. As part of this course, three-student teams develop a complete 8-bit microprocessor using a hardware description language (VHDL) and implement their designs in a small FPGA. Programmed FPGAs are "booted" at the end of the course and tested for accuracy. Students also write an assembler or a simple calculator for their microprocessor.…