Christopher. J. Masterman
@PhilosophyJim
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Postdoc. Metaphysics & Logic, mainly modality & ontology. https://t.co/HhwUEgN70M
Joined March 2022
Here's a new paper of mine for those who might be interested. "Modality, truth and mere picture thinking". Excitingly enough, it's my first published piece on truth in vs. truth at a possible world, which is what I did my doctoral thesis on.
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Life update: I'm happy to be (re-)joining the Philosophy Department at St Andrews as a Postdoctoral Researcher on @ajcotnoir's Instruments of Unity project! It feels great to be back in the place that had such an enormous impact on me as a wee PhD student.
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A new paper of mine ("Contingentism and Fragile Worlds") is out in Inquiry! I argue that a common form of higher-order contingentism is inconsistent with necessity as truth at all possible worlds. Link below if you're interested:
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RT @PetronellaRR: I'm officially going to be joining the @StAndrewsPhil department as a Lecturer in Ethics and Philosophy of Language this…
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RT @CambridgePhilos: 📢 Philosophy job alert - The Faculty of Philosophy in Cambridge wishes to appoint a temporary Assistant Professor in…
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Glad to see my "What does nihilism tell us about modal logic?" published in Philosophical Studies. (The short answer: I don't think nihilsm, or at least the possibility of nihilism, does tell us much about modal logic!) Linked below if you're interested!
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oooooh I'm trendy now! 😎
Trending in #Philosophy: 1) Cybernetics, May ’68 & the Situationist International (@histmat) 2) Fictions that don’t tell the truth 3) Some Ways the Ways the World Could Have Been Can’t Be 4) Bergsonism & the History of Analytic Philosophy 5) All too real metacapitalism: towards a non-dualist political ontology of metaverse
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The key difference: the results in the earlier paper involve flagrant (perhaps even implausible) violations of serious actualism which aren't everyone's cup of tea. This new paper also establishes some more general results. (5/5)
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Getting increasingly frustrated that you can't attach comments to footnotes in Microsoft Word. What a terrible terrible and terribly glaring design flaw? Why not?
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Glad to see "Serious Actualism and Nonexistence" is now published in AJP! It's strange to finally see this in print—wrote it back in 2020/21. There's stuff I would do differently now; but here it is nonetheless!
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Forget "On Denoting", Russell wrote short stories and they're weird. Incredible second-hand find!
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@LedermanHarvey Bizarrely enough, my landlady told me that Bertrand Russell is her cousin! Must be distant cousins, but she is definitely old enough to have met him. I'll have to ask her if she has.
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RT @PetronellaRR: My paper 'The Value of Risk in Transformative Experience' is now out in Episteme!! I've presented this paper a lot, and i…
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