James Miller

‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin-Earth and the Metaphysics of Words | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core ‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin-Earth and the Metaphysics of Words

And here's the open access link to the paper too: www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin-Earth and the Metaphysics of Words - James (JTM) Miller (Durham University) Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Online First

I wrote up a short overview of a recent paper of mine, available here for anyone interested newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/water-and-...

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‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin-Earth and the Metaphysics of Words | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core ‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin-Earth and the Metaphysics of Words

Or at least it doesn't work unless you accept implausible views about words. And I think this shows that the metaphysics of words is important as views here impact other theories in philosophy of language, but I would say that... Available here open access www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
#PhilSky

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‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin-Earth and the Metaphysics of Words | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core ‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin-Earth and the Metaphysics of Words

I suspect most philosophers think some topics have had so much written about them, there isn't much more to say. And many will think that Putnam and Twin-Earth is one of them. Well, to prove that wrong, I've got a new paper just out on Putnam, Twin-Earth, and why that argument doesn't work #PhilSky

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How to Misspell ‘Paris’ | Philosophy | Cambridge Core How to Misspell ‘Paris’ - Volume 99 Issue 4

My latest paper now officially published (open access) after some delays in processing. It is about how to account for misspelling (and other forms of linguistic errors) without positing abstract word-types. Another part of my 'no need to posit word-types' series... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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Jtm Miller, The Metaphysics of Puns - PhilPapers In this paper, I aim to discuss what puns, metaphysically, are. I argue that the type-token view of words leads to an indeterminacy problem when we consider puns. I then outline ...

New paper just published online (and open access)! Philosophers/metaphysicians have paid very little/no attention to puns before, and I think we should. I argue that puns provide (another) reason to be nominalists about words.

philpapers.org/rec/MILTMO-64

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Also, the second picutre is of the 'Square Ηead' public library. No notes - just excellent.

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In Nice to give a paper at the SPE/Oasis conference (spe-uca.sciencesconf.org). The weather is not quite the same as Durham in early/mid October...

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