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  1. Modal Normativism and De Re Modality.Tom Donaldson & Jennifer Wang - 2022 - Argumenta 7 (2):293-307.
    In the middle of the last century, it was common to explain the notion of necessity in linguistic terms. A necessary truth, it was said, is a sentence whose truth is guaranteed by linguistic rules. Quine famously argued that, on this view, de re modal claims do not make sense. “Porcupettes are porcupines” is necessarily true, but it would be a mistake to say of a particular porcupette that it is necessarily a porcupine, or that it is possibly purple. Linguistic (...)
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  2. Analyticity.Tom Donaldson - 2020 - In Michael J. Raven (ed.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaphysical Grounding. New York: Routledge. pp. 288-299.
    I consider the claim that analytic statements are "true in virtue meaning", giving the claim a ground-theoretic interpretation.
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  3. What was James's Theory of Truth?Tom Donaldson - 2018 - In Alexander Mugar Klein (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of William James. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
    In Pragmatism, James promised his readers a theory of truth. However, many of his readers (even those sympathetic with other parts of James’s work) have concluded that James’s “theory” was little more than a tangle of mistakes. In this chapter, I offer an interpretation and defence of James’s theory of truth. I emphasize James’s truth pluralism.
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  4. Context-sensitivity.Tom Donaldson & Ernie Lepore - 2011 - In Gillian Russell & Delia Graff Fara (eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language. New York, USA: Routledge. pp. 116 - 131.
    This article is a survey of the literature on context sensitivity in the philosophy of language.
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  5. The American Pragmatists. [REVIEW]Tom Donaldson - 2014 - Philosophical Review 123 (3):355-359.
  6. ‘The Construction of Logical Space’, by Rayo, Agustín: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. xix + 220, £35 (hardback). [REVIEW]Tom Donaldson - 2014 - Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92 (3):605-608.
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    Review of Chalmers, Constructing The World. [REVIEW]Tom Donaldson - 2014 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2014.
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