Roy Sorensen
Online Papers
Papers are in Pdf format
Precis for Vagueness and Contradiction
and Reply to Critics
Articles:
Empty Quotation,Analysis (forthcoming)
Permission to Cheat, Analysis (forthcoming)
Knowledge Beyond the Margin of Errror, Mind (forthcoming)
Bald-faced Lies! Lying Without the Intent to Deceive, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, 88/2, 251-264.
Hearing Silence: the Perception and Introspection of Absences, in Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays, ed. by Matthew Nudds and Casey O'Callaghan (Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2008)
The Vanishing Point: the Self as an Absence, Monist, forthcoming
Logically Equivalent -- but Closer to the Truth, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (2007) 58/2: 287-297.
Can the Dead Speak?, Themes from G. E. Moore: New Essays in Epistemology and Ethics, ed. by Susana Nuccetelli and Gary Seay (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
Future Law, Nous (2006) 40/1: 166-183.
Originless Sin: Rational Dilemmas for Satisficers, Philosophical Quarterly (2006) 56/223: 213-223.
The Disappearing Act, Analysis (2006) 66/4: 319-325.
Meta-conceivabilty and Thought Experiments, in Architecture of the Imagination, ed. Shaun Nichols (Oxford University Press, 2006): 257-272.
The Ethics of Empty Worlds, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (2005) 83/3: 349-358.
Charity implies Meta-Charity, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2004) LXCIII/2: 290-315
Commercial Applications of Skepticism, Pyrhonnian Skepticism ed. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong, Oxford University Press, (Oxford University Press, 2004): 208-232.
Para-reflections, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 54 (2003) 93-101.
A Definite No-No, Liars and Heaps ed. J. C. Beall, (Oxford University Press): 225-229.
Art of the Impossible, Imagination, Conceivability, Possibility ed. Tamar Gendler and John Hawthorne (Oxford University Press, 2002)
Mirror Imagery and Biological Selection, Biology and Philosophy 17/3 (June 2002) 409-422
Meaningless Beliefs and Mates' Problem, American Philosophical Quarterly 39/2 (2002) 169-182
The Aesthetics of Mirror Imagery, Philosophical Studies 100/2 (2000) 175-191
Direct Reference and Vague Identity, Philosophical Topics (Spring 2000) 177-92
A Vague Demonstration, Linguistics and Philosophy(2000) 23: 507-522
Faking Munchausen's Syndrome, Analysis (April 2000) 202-209
Moore's Problem with Iterated Belief, Philosophical Quarterly 50/199 (January 2000) 28-43
Blanks: Signs of Omission, American Philosophical Quarterly 36/4 (October 1999) 309-321
Towards a fairer share of dish-washing, The Independent (July 6, 1999) 7
The Unbearable Lightness of Logical Conclusions, The Independent on Sunday (January 24, 1999) Culture Section, 3
An Empathic Theory of Circularity, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (December 1999) 498-509
Rewarding Regret, Ethics (April 1998) 528-37
Self-Strengthening Empathy, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58/1 (March 1998): 75-98.
Infinite 'Backward' Induction Arguments, Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (September 1999) 278-83
Logical Luck, Philosophical Quarterly (July 1998) 319-34
Ambiguity, Discretion, and the Sorites, Monist 81/2 (1998) 217-35
Do butterflies dream?, The Independent on Sunday (November 22, 1998) Culture Section, 3
A Cure for Incontinence!, Mind (October 1997) 743
The Metaphysics of Words , Philosophical Studies (March 1996) 193-214
Unbeggable
Questions, Analysis (January
1996) 51-5
Unknowable Obligations,
Utilitas 7/2 (November 1995) 247-271
Infinite Decision Theory,
in Gambling With God: Essays on Pascal's Wager, ed. Jeffrey
Jordan (Rowman & Littlefield, 1994) 139-59
The Epistemic Conception
of Vagueness: Comments on Wright, The Southern Journal
of Philosophy Supplement (1994) 161-170
The Egg Came Before The Chicken,
Mind (July 1992) 541-2
Debunkers and Assurers,
Australasian Journal of Philosophy (December 1991) 469-91
Vagueness Implies Cognitivism,
American Philosophical Quarterly (January 1990) 1-14
Vagueness, Blurinesss, and Measurement
, Synthese (January 1988) 45-82
Reviews:
Review of R.M.
Sainsbury's Paradoxes, for
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (June 1994) 483-6
Review of
Soren Haggqvist's Thought Experiments in Philosophy, for Theoria vol. LXIV (1998) 108-18