Nic Damnjanovic
Papers in Philosophy
Papers in Philosophy
Truth
'New Wave Deflationism' in Pedersen, N. J. and Wright, C. (eds), New Waves in Truth (Palgrave Macmillan, 2010). (This is my attempt to formulate a view shared by most contemporary deflationists about truth. The core of that view is that our concept of truth is a logical concept grasp of which fully reveals the nature of truth. )
'Deflationism and the Success Argument', The Philosophical Quarterly, 58, 2005: 53-67. (I argue that, despite influential arguments to the contrary, deflationists can accept that truth is a causal-explanatory property.)
(with Stewart Candlish) 'The Myth of The Coherence Theory of Truth' in Textor, M. (ed.), Judgment and Truth in Early Analytic Philosophy (Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming). (We argue that no actual philosopher has endorsed what is typically presented as the coherence theory of truth and with good reason: the view is inherently unstable.)
(with Stewart Candlish) 'A Brief History of Truth', in Handbook of the Philosophy of Science. Volume 5: Philosophy of Logic, pp. 273-369. Volume editor: Dale Jacquette. Handbook editors: Dov Gabbay, Paul Thagard and John Woods. (Netherlands: Elsevier BV, 2007) (Despite its title, this is a fairly massive paper tracing the history of theories of truth in the twentieth century.)
(with Daniel Stoljar) 'The Deflationary Theory of Truth', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta, 2007.
(with Stewart Candlish) 'Truth, Identity Theory of', Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, ed. Edward N. Zalta (Stanford, CA: CSLI, Stanford University). Originally supplied 1996; last revised 2010.
Everything Else
'Revelation and Physicalism' dialectica, 66, 2012: 69-91. (In this context, 'Revelation' is the thesis that having experiences with phenomenal properties puts us in a position to know the full nature of those phenomenal properties. This thesis is typically held to be inconsistent with physicalism. Using the Knowledge Argument as a guide, I argue that there are several plausible readings of Revelation that physicalists can accept.)
'No Route to Material Origin Essentialism?' Erkenntnis, 72, 2010: 93-110.
'Sperm, Eggs and Hunks: Forbes on Origin and Identity' Acta Analytica, 24 (2), 2009: 113-126.
(with Stewart Candlish) 'Reason, Action and the Will: the fall and rise of causalism' in Beaney, M. (ed.) The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford University Press, 2011).
(with Stewart Candlish) 'The Tractatus and the Unity of the Proposition' in Jose Zalabardo (ed.) Reading Wittgenstein, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Reviews
‘Review of Braddon-Mitchell, D and Nola, R (eds) “Conceptual Analysis and Philosophical Naturalism”’ Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2011. (The Canberra Plan meets Italo Calvino's Invisible Cities.)
‘Review of Malatesti, L and McMillan, J (eds), “Responsibility and Psychopathy: Interfacing Law, Psychiatry, and Philosophy”’, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 2012.