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    The Unity of the Proposition.Richard Gaskin - 2008 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Richard Gaskin analyses what is distinctive about sentences and the propositions they express--what marks them off from mere aggregates of words and meanings respectively. Since he identifies the world with all the true and false propositions, his account has significant implications for our understanding of the nature of reality.
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  2. The Unity of the Proposition: Replies to Vallicella, Schnieder, and García‐Carpintero.Richard Gaskin - 2008 - Dialectica 64 (2):303-311.
    Richard Gaskin presents a work in the philosophy of language.
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  3. The sea battle and the master argument: Aristotle and Diodorus Cronus on the metaphysics of the future.Richard Gaskin - 1995 - New York: W. de Gruyter.
    Preliminaries: Terminology and Notation We may make a distinction between temporally definite and temporally indefinite sentences. ...
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    Language and World: A Defence of Linguistic Idealism.Richard Gaskin - 2020 - London: Routledge.
    This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of language. In the course of defending this radical thesis, Gaskin addresses a wide range of topics in contemporary metaphysics, philosophy of language, philosophical logic, and syntax theory. Starting from the context and compositionality principles, and the idea of a systematic theory of meaning in the Tarski-Davidson tradition, Gaskin argues that the sentence is the primary unit of linguistic meaning, and that the main aspects (...)
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    Experience and the World’s Own Language: A Critique of John Mcdowell’s Empiricism.Richard Gaskin - 2006 - New York: Oxford University Press.
    John McDowell's "minimal empiricism" is one of the most influential and widely discussed doctrines in contemporary philosophy. Richard Gaskin subjects it to careful examination and criticism, arguing that it has unacceptable consequences, and in particular that it mistakenly rules out something we all know to be the case: that infants and non-human animals experience a world. Gaskin traces the errors in McDowell's empiricism to their source, and presents his own, still more minimal, version of empiricism, suggesting that a correct philosophy (...)
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    Language, Truth, and Literature: A Defence of Literary Humanism.Richard Gaskin - 2013 - Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press.
    Richard Gaskin offers an original defence of literary humanism, according to which works of imaginative literature have an objective meaning which is fixed at the time of production and not subject to individual readers' responses. He shows that the appreciation of literature is a cognitive activity fully on a par with scientific investigation.
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  7. Bradley's regress, the copula and the unity of the proposition.Richard Gaskin - 1995 - Philosophical Quarterly 45 (179):161-180.
    If we make the basic assumption that the components of a proposition have reference on the model of proper name and bearer, we face the problem of distinguishing the proposition from a mere list' of names. We neutralize the problem posed by that assumption of we first of all follow Wiggins and distinguish, in every predicate, a strictly predicative element (the copula), and a strictly non-predicative conceptual component (available to be quantified over). If we further allow the copula itself to (...)
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    On Neutral Relations.Richard Gaskin & Daniel J. Hill - 2012 - Dialectica 66 (1):167-186.
    Is there an explanation of why the state of x's bearing the non-symmetric binary relation R to y is different from its differential opposite, the state of y's bearing R to x? One traditional view has it that the explanation is that non-symmetric relations hold of objects in an essentially directional way, ordering the relevant relata. We call this view ‘directionalism’. Kit Fine has suggested that this approach is subject to significant metaphysical difficulties, sufficient to motivate seeking an alternative analysis. (...)
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  9. A Defence of the Resemblance Meaning of ‘What it’s like’.Richard Gaskin - 2019 - Mind 128 (511):673-698.
    It is often held to be definitive of consciousness that there is something it is like to be in a conscious state. A consensus has arisen that ‘is like’ in relevant ‘what it is like’ locutions does not mean ‘resembles’. This paper argues that the consensus is mistaken. It is argued that a recently proposed ‘affective’ analysis of these locutions fails, but that a purported rival of the resemblance analysis, the property account, is in fact compatible with it. Some of (...)
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  10. Conditionals of freedom and middle knowledge.Richard Gaskin - 1994 - Philosophical Quarterly 44 (173):412-430.
  11. From the unity of the proposition to linguistic idealism.Richard Gaskin - 2019 - Synthese 196 (4):1325-1342.
    The paper contains a general argument for linguistic idealism, which it approaches by way of some considerations relating to the unity of the proposition and Tractarian metaphysics. Language exhibits a function–argument structure, but does it do so because it is reflecting how things are in the world, or does the relation of dependence run in the other direction? The paper argues that the general structure of the world is asymmetrically dependent on a metaphysically prior fact about language, namely that it (...)
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    Ancient and Medieval Theories of Intentionality.Myles Burnyeat, Richard Gaskin, Joël Biard, Peter Simons, Victor Caston, Richard Sorabji, Christof Rapp, Hermann Weidemann, Dorothea Frede, Claude Panaccio, Elizabeth Karger, Robert Pasnau & Cyrille Michon - 2001 - Brill.
    This volume, including sixteen contributions, analyses ancient and medieval theories of intentionality in various contexts: perception, imagination, and intellectual thinking. It sheds new light on classical theories and examines neglected sources, both Greek and Latin.
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    Modalities in Medieval Philosophy.Richard Gaskin - 1994 - Philosophical Quarterly 44 (176):383-385.
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    Do Homeric Heroes Make Real Decisions?Richard Gaskin - 1990 - Classical Quarterly 40 (01):1-.
    Bruno Snell has made familiar a certain thesis about the Homeric poems, to the effect that these poems depict a primitive form of mindedness. The area of mindedness concerned is agency, and the content of the thesis is that Homeric agents are not agents in the fullest sense: they do not make choices in clear self-awareness of what they are doing; choices are made for them rather than by them; in some cases the instigators of action are gods, in other (...)
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    (1 other version)Reach's Puzzle and Mention.Richard Gaskin & Daniel J. Hill - 2013 - Dialectica 67 (2):201-222.
    We analyse Reach's puzzle, according to which it is impossible to be told anyone's name, because the statement conveying it can be understood only by someone who already knows what it says. We argue that the puzzle can be solved by adverting to the systematic nature of mention when it involves the use of standard quotation marks or similar devices. We then discuss mention more generally and outline an account according to which any mentioning expressions that are competent to solve (...)
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  16. Fregean sense and Russellian propositions.Richard Gaskin - 1997 - Philosophical Studies 86 (2):131-154.
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    Grammar in early twentieth-century philosophy.Richard Gaskin (ed.) - 2001 - New York: Routledge.
    In this book, ten essays examine the contributions made to the issue of the philosophical significance of grammar by Frege, Russell, Bradley, Husserl, Wittgenstein, Carnap and Heidegger.
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    Middle knowledge, fatalism and comparative similarity of worlds.Richard Gaskin - 1998 - Religious Studies 34 (2):189-203.
    The doctrine of Middle Knowledge presupposes that conditionals of freedom (statements of the form 'If A were circumstances C, he would perform X') can be true. Such conditions are, where true, not true in virtue of the truth of any categorical proposition. Nor can their truth be modelled in terms of comparative similarity of possible worlds, because the structure of possible worlds is a necessary one, whereas the connection between antecedent and consequent of a conditional of freedom is a contingent (...)
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    Necessity or Contingency: The Master Argument.Richard Gaskin & Jules Vuillemin - 1998 - Philosophical Review 107 (4):627.
    This book is an English version of a book published in 1984 in French, the aim of which was to give a reconstruction of Diodorus Cronus's Master Argument, together with a historical analysis of some of the central modal notions on which it draws. In preparing the English text, Vuillemin has made some changes to the logic of his reconstruction of Diodorus's Argument and added an epilogue. The Master Argument consisted of three premises: Every past truth is necessary, The impossible (...)
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    Disjunctivism and the Paradox of Tragedy.Richard Gaskin - forthcoming - Philosophical Quarterly.
    The paper offers a disjunctivist solution to the paradox of tragedy. The first part of the paper defends a version of disjunctivism as that doctrine is understood in the epistemology of perception, and contrasts it with its rival, conjunctivism. In the second part of the paper, it is argued that the traditional paradox of tragedy—the question why tragedy gives pleasure—can be solved by adopting a disjunctivist approach to the relevant felt emotions. The tragic audience does not really feel ‘sorrow, terror, (...)
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    Sophocles: Oedipus The King.Richard Gaskin - 2019 - British Journal of Aesthetics 59 (4):479-483.
    P. J. FINGLASS cambridge university press. 2018. pp. xiv + 708. £50.
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    Tragedy and Redress in Western Literature: A Philosophical Perspective.Richard Gaskin - 2018 - Routledge.
    This book offers a unique interpretation of tragic literature in the Western tradition, deploying the method and style of Analytic philosophy. Richard Gaskin argues that tragic literature seeks to offer moral and linguistic redress for suffering. Moral redress involves the balancing of a protagonist's suffering with guilt : Gaskin contends that, to a much greater extent than has been recognized by recent critics, traditional tragedy represents suffering as incurred by avoidable and culpable mistakes of a cognitive nature. Moral redress operates (...)
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  23. ch. 29. When logical atomism met the Theaetetus : Ryle on naming and saying.Richard Gaskin - 2013 - In Michael Beaney (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of The History of Analytic Philosophy. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Molina on divine foreknowledge and the principle of bivalence.Richard Gaskin - 1994 - Journal of the History of Philosophy 32 (4):551-571.
  25. Précis of the unity of the proposition.Richard Gaskin - 2010 - Dialectica 64 (2):259-264.
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    John Wyclif and the Theory of Complexly Signifiables.Richard Gaskin - 2009 - Vivarium 47 (1):74-96.
    John Wyclif claims that there are relations of essential identity and formal distinctness connecting universals, complexly signifiables, and individuals. In some respects Wyclif's position on complexly signifiables coincides with what I call the advanced res theory, the view that complexly signifiables are really identical with but formally distinct from worldly individuals. But there is no question in Wyclif's treatment of a reduction of complexly signifiables to individuals. I argue that Wyclif populates his most fundamental ontological level with propositionally structured entities (...)
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  27. 8 Nonsense and necessity in Wittgenstein's mature philosophy.Richard Gaskin - 2001 - In Grammar in early twentieth-century philosophy. New York: Routledge.
     
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    Peter Damián on divine power and the contingency of the past.Richard Gaskin - 1997 - British Journal for the History of Philosophy 5 (2):229 – 247.
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    Russell and Richard Brinkley on the unity of the proposition.Richard Gaskin - 1997 - History and Philosophy of Logic 18 (3):139-150.
    Between 1903 and 1918 Russell made a number of attempts to understand the unity of the proposition, but his attempts all foundered on his failure clearly to distinguish between different senses in which the relation R might be said to relate a and b in the proposition aRb: he failed to distinguish between the relation as truth-maker and the relation as unifier, and consequently committed himself again and again to the unacceptable consequence that only true propositions are genuinely unified. There (...)
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    Future Contingency and Classical Indeterminism.Richard Gaskin - 2021 - Erkenntnis 88 (8):3313-3330.
    A position that has been called ‘classical indeterminism’ has recently been developed in order to model vagueness: this approach appeals to an object-language ‘determinately’ operator, the semantics of which are defined in such a way as to preserve the principle of bivalence. I suggest that a prominent argument against this strategy, which I call the Field–Williamson argument, fails. The classical indeterminist position in its general form was anticipated by the Aristotelian commentators in their discussions of Aristotle’s famous ‘sea battle’ passage (...)
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  31. Brill Online Books and Journals.T. D. J. Chappell, Robert Wardy, Robert Heinaman, Katerina Ierodiakonou, Richard Gaskin, Richard J. Ketchum, Justin Gosling, Bob Sharples & M. R. Wright - 1993 - Phronesis 38 (1).
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    Bradleys Regress und die Einheit der Proposition.Richard Gaskin - 2009 - Deutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 57 (4):575-582.
    The paper examines the nature of the unity of the proposition, distinguishing this issue from that of the unity of states of affairs. I argue that Bradley′s regress has an important role to play in constituting a proposition as a unity, and I address some of the problems that this solution might be thought to involve.
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  33. Überlegungen zur Identitätstheorie der Prädikation.Richard Gaskin - 1997 - Wissenschaft Und Weisheit 60 (1):87-103.
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  34. Can aesthetic value be explained?Richard M. Gaskin - 1989 - British Journal of Aesthetics 29 (4):329-340.
  35. Experience, Agency and the Self.Richard M. Gaskin - 1988 - Dissertation, University of Oxford (United Kingdom)
    Available from UMI in association with The British Library. Requires signed TDF. ;The manifest image is 'a sophistication and refinement of the image in terms of which man first came to be aware of himself as man-in-the-world' and in its methodology 'limits itself to what correlational techniques can tell us about perceptible and introspectible events'. The scientific image, on the other hand, 'postulates imperceptible objects and events for the purpose of explaining correlations among perceptibles'. This thesis is centred on a (...)
     
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    Fatalism, bivalence and the past.Richard Gaskin - 1998 - Philosophical Quarterly 48 (190):83-88.
    In his paper ‘Some Comments on Fatalism’, The Philosophical Quartery, 46 (1996), pp. 1–11, James Cargile offers an argument against the view that the correct response to fatalism is to restrict the principle of bivalence with respect to statements about future contingencies. His argument fails because it is question‐begging. Further, he fails to give due weight to the reason behind this view, which is the desire to give an adequate account of the past/future asymmetry. He supposes that mere appeal to (...)
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    Fatalism, Foreknowledge, and the Reality of the Future.Richard M. Gaskin - 1994 - Modern Schoolman 71 (2):83-113.
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    Intuition and reason, Miranda Fricker.Richard Gaskin - 1995 - Philosophy 70 (272).
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  39. Julia Annas: The morality of happiness.Richard Gaskin - 1995 - Mind 104 (416):881-884.
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    Middle knowledge: Reply to rice.Richard Gaskin - 1995 - Philosophical Quarterly 45 (181):505-509.
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    Platonism and Forms of Life.Richard M. Gaskin - 1990 - Auslegung 16 (1):1-16.
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    (1 other version)Predication and ontology: Reply to Denyer.Richard Gaskin - 1998 - Philosophy 73 (4):624-628.
    In his article ‘Names, Verbs and Quantification’ Nicholas Denyer argues that a previous attempt of mine, on behalf of realism, to play down the ontological importance of the distinction between grammatical names and verbs ignores some striking logical differences between them. I concede the differences Denyer alludes to, but argue that they do not assist the orthodox nominalist, since if anything they point to a position according to which relations, but not monadic properties, are unreal. But this position is, I (...)
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    Peter of Ailly and other Fourteenth-Century Thinkers on Divine Power and the Necessity of the Past.Richard Gaskin - 1997 - Archiv für Geschichte der Philosophie 79 (3):273-291.
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    Realism and the Picture Theory of Meaning.Richard Gaskin - 2009 - Philosophical Topics 37 (1):49-62.
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    Symposium: Truth, meaning and literature.Richard Gaskin - 1994 - British Journal of Aesthetics 34 (4):382-388.
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    The epistemology of reading and interpretation.Richard Gaskin - 2022 - Philosophical Psychology 35 (6):940-942.
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    Truth, fiction and literature.Richard Gaskin - 1995 - British Journal of Aesthetics 35 (4):395-401.
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    Tense Logic and the Master Argument.Richard Gaskin - 1999 - History of Philosophy & Logical Analysis 2 (1):203-224.
    We may distinguish between two ways of understanding tense-logical formulae, depending on whether we construe tense operators as operators on sentences or on predicates. Bearing this distinction in mind helps us formalise the premisses of Diodorus Cronus' Master Argument correctly, and give a formal reconstruction of the Argument itself.
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  49. The Question of Idealism.Richard Gaskin (ed.) - forthcoming
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    The Truth In Fiction.Richard Gaskin - 1993 - British Journal of Aesthetics 33 (2):177-179.
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