Kai F. Wehmeier 

Dean's Professor of Logic & Philosophy of Science

Professor of Language Science and of Philosophy 

Director, Center for the Advancement of Logic, its Philosophy, History & Applications (C-ALPHA)

UC Irvine

Kai at Academia.edu

Curriculum Vitae 

Papers

"Wittgensteinian Predicate Logic and Compositionality" (penultimate draft), accepted for publication in the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic.

Peter Schroeder-Heister on Proof-Theoretic Semantics, Thomas Piecha and Kai Wehmeier (eds), Springer 2024 (open access).

"On Equivalence Relations between Interpreted Languages, with an Application to Modal and First-Order Language," Erkenntnis 88, 2023, 193–213 (open access).

"Are Quantifiers Intensional Operators?", Inquiry 64 (5-6), 2021 (special issue on Operators vs. Quantifiers), 511–532. Official version available here or (possibly for free, even without institutional access) here.

"Frege's Begriffsschrift Theory of Identity Vindicated" (with Ulrich Pardey), in E. Lepore and D. Sosa (eds), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language vol. 1, Oxford University Press, 2019, 122–147.

"Still in the Mood: The Versatility of Subjunctive Markers in Modal Logic" (with Helge Rückert), Topoi 38 (2), 2019 (special issue on Logical Pluralism and Translation), 361–377. Official pre-publication version freely viewable here (via Springer Nature SharedIt). Official version of record downloadable here (for those with subscriber access).

"The Proper Treatment of Variables in Predicate Logic," Linguistics and Philosophy 41 (2), 2018, 209–249. Official version freely viewable here (via Springer Nature SharedIt), or, for those with subscriber access, downloadable here.

"Identity and Quantification," Philosophical Studies 174 (3), 2017, 759–770. Official version freely viewable here (via Springer Nature SharedIt) or, for those with subscriber access, downloadable here

"Critical Remarks on Frege's Conception of Logic by Patricia Blanchette," Journal for the History of Analytic Philosophy 3 (7), 2015. Official version (with inferior formatting) here (open access).

"Still living without identity: Reply to Trueman," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 92:1, 2014, 173–175. Official version available here.

"Nothing but d-truth" (discussion note), Analytic Philosophy 55 (1), 2014, 114–117. Official version here.

"The Proof of Hume's Principle" (with Robert May), forthcoming in P. Ebert and M. Rossberg (eds.), A Companion to Frege's Grundgesetze, Oxford University Press.

"Subjunctivity and Conditionals," Journal of Philosophy, Vol. CX, No. 3, March 2013, pp. 117–142. Official version available here.

"Actuality in Propositional Modal Logics" (penultimate draft; with Allen Hazen and Benjamin Rin), Studia Logica 101(3), 2013, 487–503. Official version freely viewable here (via Springer Nature SharedIt), or, for those with subscriber access, downloadable here.

"Gingerbread Nuts and Pebbles Frege and the Neo-Kantians: Two Newly Discovered Documents" (with Sven Schlotter), British Journal for the History of Philosophy, Vol. 21, No. 3, 2013, 591–609.

"Tractarian First-Order Logic: Identity and the N-Operator" (with Brian Rogers), Review of Symbolic Logic 5(4), 2012, 538–573. Official version available here.

"How to live without identity and why," Australasian Journal of Philosophy 90:4, 2012, 761– 777. (This is a preprint of an article whose final and definitive form has been published in the Australasian Journal of Philosophy here; the Australasian Journal of Philosophy is available online at: http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/.)

"Subjunctivity and Cross-World Predication" (open access), in Philosophical Studies. 159 (1), 2012, pp. 107-122.

"On Ramsey's 'Silly Delusion' Regarding Tractatus 5.53," in Giuseppe Primiero and Shahid Rahman (eds.), Acts of Knowledge - History, Philosophy and Logic, College Publications, London, 2009, pp. 353-368.

Wittgensteinian Tableaux, Identity, and Co-Denotation,” Erkenntnis 69 (3),  2008, pp.  363-376.Official version freely viewable here (via Springer Nature SharedIt), or, for those with subscriber access, downloadable here.

Ein unbekannter Brief Gottlob Freges” (with Sven Schlotter), in Methodisches Denken, Peter Bernhard and Volker Peckhaus (eds.), mentis Verlag, Paderborn (Germany), 2008, pp. 171-176 [Note: 10 MB file].

On the Relations between Heinrich Scholz and Jan Lukasiewicz" (with H.-C. Schmidt am Busch), History and Philosophy of Logic 28 (February 2007), pp. 67-81. Official version available here.

Gottlob Frege,” The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd edition, Donald Borchert, editor-in-chief, Macmillan Reference USA, 2005, 725-736.

Modality, Mood, and Descriptions,” in Reinhard Kahle (ed.), Intensionality: An Interdisciplinary Discussion, Lecture Notes in Logic, Wellesley, Mass.: AK Peters, 2005, pp. 187-216.

Frege’s Permutation Argument Revisited" (with Peter Schroeder-Heister), Synthese 147, 2005, pp. 43-61. Official version viewable here (via Springer Nature SharedIt) or, for those with subscriber access, downloadable here.

Heinrich Scholz – Logiker, Philosoph, Theologe (co-edited with H.-C. Schmidt am Busch; see table of contents and preface here [6MB file]), Paderborn/Germany: mentis Verlag, 2005 (review by Matthias Wille in the Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 12, 2006, pp. 135-137).

Heinrich Scholz und Jan Lukasiewicz“ (with H.-C. Schmidt am Busch), in Schmidt am Busch and Wehmeier 2005, pp. 119-131. Reprinted with a postscript by Nikolaus Lobkowicz in Forum für Osteuropäische Ideen- und Zeitgeschichte 11 (2), 2007, pp. 107-125.

“‘Es ist die einzige Spur, die ich hinterlasse’ – zur Geschichte des Instituts für Mathematische Logik und Grundlagenforschung” (with H.-C. Schmidt am Busch), in Schmidt am Busch and Wehmeier 2005, pp. 93-101 [Note: 6MB file].

The Quest for Frege’s Nachlass” (with H.-C. Schmidt am Busch), in Michael Beaney and Erich Reck (eds.), Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers: Gottlob Frege, vol. I, London: Routledge, 2005, pp. 54-67 (English translation of Wehmeier and Schmidt am Busch 2000).

Wittgensteinian Predicate Logic,” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 45, 2004, 1-11.Official version freely available here (open access).

In the Mood,” Journal of Philosophical Logic 33, 2004, 607-630. Official version freely viewable here (via Springer Nature SharedIt) or, for those with subscriber access, downloadable here.

Russell’s Paradox in Consistent Fragments of Frege’s Grundgesetze”, in: Godehard Link (ed.), One Hundred Years of Russell’s Paradox, de Gruyter 2004, 247-257.  

World Travelling and Mood Swings”, in: Benedikt Löwe, Thoralf Räsch, Wolfgang Malzkorn (eds.), Foundations of the Formal Sciences II, Kluwer (Trends in Logic), 2003, 257-260.

"On the Consistency of the Delta^1_1-CA Fragment of Frege’s Grundgesetze” (with Fernando Ferreira), Journal of Philosophical Logic 31, 2002, 301-311. Official version freely viewable here (via Springer Nature SharedIt) or, for those with subscriber access, downloadable here.

“Auf der Suche nach Freges Nachlaß” (with H.-C. Schmidt am Busch), in Gottfried Gabriel and Uwe Dathe (eds.), Gottlob Frege – Werk und Wirkung, Paderborn: mentis Verlag, 2000, 267-281.

Consistent Fragments of Grundgesetze and the Existence of Non-Logical Objects," Synthese 121, 1999, 309-328. Version of record freely viewable here (via Springer Nature SharedIt) or, for those with subscriber access, downloadable here.

Constructing Kripke Models of Certain Fragments of Heyting’s Arithmetic," Publications de l'Institut Mathématique n.s. 63 (77), 1998, 1-8.

Aspekte der Frege-Hilbert-Korrespondenz,” History and Philosophy of Logic 18, 1997, 201-209.

Fragments of HA based on Σ1-induction,” Archive for Mathematical Logic 37, 1997, 37-49.

Classical and Intuitionistic Models of Arithmetic,” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 37, 1996, 452-461.

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