| Essays in Philosophical Logic
"Existential
Import Revisited", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic
(1963), 4, pp. 288-292.
(with Thomas Scharle.) "A Translation
Theorem for Two Systems of Free Logic”, Logique et Analyse
(1967), 10, pp. 328-341.
(with Bas C. Van Fraassen.) "On
Free Description Theory", Zeitschrift f. Mathematische
Logic und Grundlagen der Mathematik (1967), 13, pp. 225-240.
(with Robert K. Meyer.) "Universally
Free Logic and Standard Quantification Theory", Journal
of Symbolic Logic (March 1968), 33, pp. 8-26.
(with Hugues Leblanc and Robert K. Meyer.)
"A Liberated Version of S5", Archiv fur Mathematische
Logik und Grundlagenforschung 1969, 12, pp. 151-154.
"Predication and Extensionality",
Journal of Philosophical Logic (1974), 3, pp.255-264.
(with Robert K. Meyer and Ermanno Bencivenga.)
"The Ineliminability of E! in Free Quantification Theory
without Identity", Journal of Philosophical Logic (1982),
11, pp. 229-231.
Nonexistent Objects: Why Theories About
Them are Important", Grazer Philosophische Studien
(1985-86), 25-26, pp. 439-446.
(with Ermanno Bencivenga.) "A Free
Logic with Simple and Complex Predicates", Notre Dame
Journal of Formal Logic (1986), 27, pp. 247-256.
"Prolegomenon zu einer Theorie
des Wissenschaftlichen Verstehens" in Erklaerung und
Verstehen in der Wissenschaft (Hrsg. Gerhard Schurz), Munich:
Oldenburg, (1988), pp. 219-233.
"A Theory about Logical Theories
of Expressions of the Form 'The So and So' Where 'The' is in the
Singular", Erkenntnis (1991), 35, pp. 337-346.
"Russell's Version of the Theory
of Definite Descriptions." Philosophical Studies,
(1992), 65, pp. 153-167.
"A Theory of Definite Descriptions"
in Definite Descriptions, (Ed. G. Ostertag), M.I.T. Press,
1997. (This is an adaptation of my two papers published in 1962-63
that introduced free definite description theory.)
(with Gerhard Schurz) "Outline
of a theory of scientific understanding", Synthese,
(1994), 101, pp. 65-120.
(with Peter Simons) "Characterizing
and classifying: explicating a biological distinction", Monist,
(1994), 77,
pp. 312-328.
(with Brian Skyrms) "Resiliency
and laws in the web of belief" in Laws of Nature,
(Ed. F. Weinert), de Gruyter, Berlin (1995), pp.159- 176.
"Russellian names: notes on a theory
of Arthur Prior" in Logic and Reality: Essays On The
Legacy Of Arthur Prior (Ed. J. Copeland), Clarendon Press,
Oxford (1996), pp. 411-417.
On the reduction of two paradoxes and
the philosophical significance thereof" in Physik, Philosophie
und die Einheit der Wissenschaften (Hrsg. L. Krüger
u. B. Falkenburg), Spektrum, Heidelberg (1995), pp. 21-32.
(with Raymond Gumb) "Definitions
in nonstrict positive free
logic", Modern Logic (1997), 7, pp. 25-55
“Fixing Quine’s theory of
predication”, Dialectica, 52, (1998), pp. 154-159.
"Set theory and definite descriptions",
Grazer Philosophische Studien, 60, (2000), pp. 1 - 11. This
paper is a reprint of a
Plenary Address to the AMS-ASL meetings in 2000.
“From predication to programming”,
Minds and Machines, 11, (2001), pp. 257-265.
“Free logics” in the
Blackwell Guide to Philosophical Logic (Ed. L Goble), (2001),
Blackwell, London, pp. 258-280.
Books
Philosophical Problems in Logic:
Some Recent Developments. (Editor and contributor). Reidel,
Dordrecht, Holland (1970): reprinted by Reidel (1980).
(with Gordon G. Brittan, Jr.) An
Introduction to the Philosophy of Science. Prentice-Hall,
Engelwood Cliffs, NJ (1970); 2nd ed. Ridgeview, Reseda, CA (1979);
3rd ed. Ridgeview, Atascadero, CA (1987). 4th ed. Ridgeview, Atascadero,
CA(1992).
Portuguese translation: Sao Paulo, Cultrix (1972).
Spanish translation: Madrid, Guadarrama (1974).
Italian Translation: Turin, Boringhieri (1981).
Japanese translation: Kyoto, Koyoshobo (1982).
German translation: Berlin, de Gruyter (1990).
(with Bas C. Van Fraassen.) Derivation
and Counterexample:
An Introduction to Philosophical Logic. Encino, CA, Dickenson,
(1972).
Chinese Translation (1982)
Meinong and the Principle of Independence.
Cambridge, The University Press (1983).
(with Ermanno Bencivenga and Bas van
Fraassen) Logic, Bivalence and Denotation. Ridgeview,
Atascadero, CA, 1986. 2nd edition (1991).
Philosophical Applications of Free
Logic (Editor and contributor). Oxford (1991).
Free Logics; Their Character, Genesis
and Some Applications Thereof. Akademia Verlag, Sankt Augustin
bei Bonn, (1997). (This book contains the Inaugural Lectures in
Logic and the Philosophy of Science, University of Bielefeld (1992)).
Free Logic: Selected Essays,
Cambridge, The University Press, (2003)
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"Extensionality,
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"Predication
and what there is"
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