Eric Swanson
ericsw@umich.edu
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Department of Philosophy
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If you have trouble obtaining anything mentioned below, please email me.
Some work in progress
“Causal Distribution: The Logic of Counterfactuals Reflected in the Logic of Causation”
(Email me for a recent draft.)
“Probability in Philosophy of Language”
In preparation for The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, edited by Alan Hájek and Chris Hitchcock.
(Email me for a recent draft.)
Published or forthcoming articles
“The Application of Constraint Semantics to the Language of Subjective Uncertainty”
Forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophical Logic.
(Email me for a recent version.)
“Ordering Supervaluationism, Counterpart Theory, and Ersatz
Fundamentality”
Forthcoming in the Journal of Philosophy.
“Subjunctive Biscuit and Stand-Off Conditionals”
Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. DOI: 10.1007/s11098-011-9836-9
“Conditional Excluded Middle without the Limit Assumption”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 85, no. 2 (2012): 301–321. DOI: 10.1111/ j.1933-1592.2011.00507.x
“The Language of Causation”
In Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 716–728. London: Routledge, 2012.
“Propositional
Attitudes”
In Claudia Maienborn,
Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner (eds.), Semantics:
An International Handbook of
Natural Language Meaning, vol. 2, 1538–1561. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2012.
“On the Treatment of Incomparability in Ordering Semantics and Premise
Semantics”
Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 40, no. 6 (2011): 693–713. DOI: 10.1007/s10992-010-9157-z
“How Not to Theorize about the Language of Subjective
Uncertainty”
In Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson (eds.), Epistemic
Modality, 249–269. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Lessons from the Context Sensitivity of
Causal Talk”
Journal of Philosophy, vol. 107, no. 5 (2010): 221–242.
“Structurally Defined Alternatives and Lexicalizations of XOR”
Linguistics and Philosophy, vol. 33, no. 1 (2010): 31–36. DOI: 10.1007/s10988-010-9074-1
“On Scope Relations between Quantifiers and Epistemic Modals”
Journal of Semantics, vol. 27, no. 4 (2010): 529–540. DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffq010
“Modality
in Language”
Philosophy
Compass, vol. 3, no. 6 (2008): 1193–1207. DOI:
10.1111/j.1747-9991 .2008. 00177.x
I've changed my mind about some things discussed in this article. On weak modals, and on the limit assumption, see “On the Treatment of Incomparability in Ordering Semantics and Premise
Semantics” (above); on the force associated with modals see “Imperative Force in the English Modal System” (in preparation).
“A Note
on Gibbard's ‘Rational Credence and the Value of Truth’”
Oxford Studies in Epistemology, vol. 2 (2007): 179–189.
Book reviews
Review
of Reflections on Meaning, by Paul Horwich
Philosophical Review, vol. 118, no. 1 (2009): 131–134.
Older or superseded work
Interactions with
Context
My dissertation (MIT, 2006). This contains (very) early versions of material in
“Propositional Attitudes,” “How Not to Theorize about the Language of
Subjective Uncertainty,” “Lessons from the Context Sensitivity of
Causal Talk,” and the constraint semantics papers and presentations.
“Constraint Semantics and the Language of Subjective Uncertainty” (handout and slides)
Presented at the
Chambers Philosophy Conference on Epistemic Modals at University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
16 April 2010.
“Constraint Semantics and its Application to Conditionals” (handout
and slides)
Presented at the First
Formal Epistemology
Festival, 29 July 2008.