Nic Damnjanovic
M207: Philosophy
The University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley W.A. 6009
Australia
Telephone (+61 8) 6488 2106
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E-mail Username: damnjano (Add @arts.uwa.edu.au to the username to form the
e-mail address.)
Principal Research Interests
Theories of truth, the philosophy of language, metaphysics, the philosophy of
mind.
Recent Publications
No Route to Origin Essentialism? [324 KB pdf download] Erkenntnis (forthcoming). Reason, Action and the Will: the fall and rise of causalism [312 KB pdf download] in Beaney, M. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy (OUP, forthcoming 2010). [With Stewart Candlish] Sperm, Eggs and Hunks: Forbes on Origin and Identity [296 KB pdf download] Acta Analytica, 24 (2), 2009. The Deflationary Theory of Truth Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta, 2007. [With Daniel Stoljar] A Brief History of Truth, in Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. Volume 5: Philosophy of Logic, pp. 273369. Volume editor: Dale Jacquette. Handbook editors: Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods. (Netherlands: Elsevier BV, 2007). [With Stewart Candlish]
Despite its title, this is a fairly massive paper tracing the
history of theories of truth in the twentieth century. Because of its size, its broken into four parts: early views (from 1900-1930) [399 KB pdf download], middle views (from 1930-1970) [396 KB pdf download],
later views (from 1970-2000)
[541 KB pdf download] and then the references [183 KB pdf download].
Deflationism and the Success Argument [252 KB pdf download], The Philosophical
Quarterly, 58, 2005: 5367.
In Progress
New Wave Deflationism [248 KB pdf download] for Pedersen, N. J. and Wright, C. (eds), New Waves on Truth (Palgrave Macmillan, expected 2010).
Any comments on this paper would be very welcome. The Identity Theory of Truth for Glanzberg, M. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of Truth (OUP, forthcoming). [With Stewart Candlish]
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