Juhani Yli-Vakkuri is Professor of the Philosophy of Language at the University of Tartu, Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow in Philosophy at Bielefeld University, and Associate Faculty Member at the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Oxford, where he is currently working on the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation-funded project Vagueness and Modality with John Hawthorne and Timothy Williamson. Yli-Vakkuri holds a PhD (DPhil) in philosophy from the University of Oxford, and has previously been a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Philosophy at the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature, a Norwegian Centre of Excellence at the the University of Oslo, as well as having held visiting postdoctoral positions at the Humboldt University of Berlin, the University of Oslo, and the University of Oxford. Yli-Vakkuri's research is in the areas of metaphysics and epistemology, broadly construed. His most recent work concerns, inter alia, internalism vs. externalism about mental content, the interaction of vagueness with metaphysical modality, and the interaction of epistemic with objective modalities. He is co-editor (with Mark McCullagh) of Williamson on Modality (Routledge, 2017), co-author (with John Hawthorne) of Narrow Content (Oxford University Press, 2018), and co-author (also with Hawthorne) of Vagueness and Ignorance (in progress).
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Narrow Content by Juhani Yli-Vakkuri and John Hawthorne. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018
“This is one of the most convincing philosophy books I have read in a long time. It takes a widely held constellation of views, lays them out with admirable clarity, and patiently reduces them to rubble.”
Jeff Speaks, University of Notre Dame
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“This is one of the most convincing philosophy books I have read in a long time. It takes a widely held constellation of views, lays them out with admirable clarity, and patiently reduces them to rubble.”
Jeff Speaks, University of Notre Dame
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Williamson on Modality, ed. by Juhani Yli-Vakkuri and Mark McCullagh. London: Routledge, 2017
According to the publisher: “Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics. His work in these areas has been particularly influential in shaping debates about metaphysical modality, which is the topic of his recent provocative and closely-argued book Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013). The present book comprises ten essays by metaphysicians and logicians responding to Williamson’s work on metaphysical modality. The authors include some of the most distinguished philosophers of modality in the world, as well as several rising stars. Each essay is followed by a reply by Williamson. In addition, the book contains a major new essay by Williamson, ‘Modal science,’ concerning the role of modal claims in natural science.”
Contributors: Andrew Bacon | Kit Fine | Peter Fritz | Jeremy Goodman | John Hawthorne |Øystein Linnebo | Meghan Sullivan | Theodore Sider | Robert Stalnaker | Gabriel Uzquiano | Barbara Vetter | Timothy Williamson | Juhani Yli-Vakkuri
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According to the publisher: “Timothy Williamson is one of the most influential living philosophers working in the areas of logic and metaphysics. His work in these areas has been particularly influential in shaping debates about metaphysical modality, which is the topic of his recent provocative and closely-argued book Modal Logic as Metaphysics (2013). The present book comprises ten essays by metaphysicians and logicians responding to Williamson’s work on metaphysical modality. The authors include some of the most distinguished philosophers of modality in the world, as well as several rising stars. Each essay is followed by a reply by Williamson. In addition, the book contains a major new essay by Williamson, ‘Modal science,’ concerning the role of modal claims in natural science.”
Contributors: Andrew Bacon | Kit Fine | Peter Fritz | Jeremy Goodman | John Hawthorne |Øystein Linnebo | Meghan Sullivan | Theodore Sider | Robert Stalnaker | Gabriel Uzquiano | Barbara Vetter | Timothy Williamson | Juhani Yli-Vakkuri
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