Juhani Yli-Vakkuri
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  • Research
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  • Events
    • Frege Lectures: Timothy Williamson
    • Humboldt Vagueness and Modality Workshop
    • Humboldt Logic and Language Workshop
    • Williamson in Montreal
    • Workshop on Meaning and Modality
    • Workshop on Narrow Content
    • Workshop on Tense, Modality, and Semantic Values
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Publications

Books

  • The Bounds of Possibility: Puzzles of Modal Variation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2021 (with Cian Dorr and John Hawthorne). Ca. 460 pp.
  • Narrow Content. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018 (with John Hawthorne). 213 pp.
    • Review by David Chalmers in Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
    • Review by Sarah Sawyer in Mind​
    • Review by Anandi Hattiangadi in Analysis
    • Comment by Alex Byrne in Philosophical Studies
    • Comment by Paul Pietroski in Philosophical Studies
    • Comment by Jeff Speaks in Philosophical Studies
    • Comment by Sarah Sawyer in Inquiry
  • Williamson on Modality. London: Routledge, 2017 (edited, with Mark McCullagh). 406 pp.
    • Review by Lev Lamberov in Философия науки (Philosophy of Science), 77 (2018), pp. 158-171 (in Russian)

Articles

  • “Intensionalism and Propositional Attitudes”, forthcoming in Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Mind (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Counterpart Theory and Counterfactuals”, forthcoming in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Challenges for an Experimentalist’s Skepticism about Cases”, in D. Prelevic and A. Vaidya, eds., The Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Thinking. London: Routledge, forthcoming  ​(with Margot Strohminger). 
  • “Précis of Narrow Content”, Philosophical Studies​, published online 25 September 2020 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Reply to Byrne”, Philosophical Studies, published online 23 September 2020​ (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Reply to Pietroski”, Philosophical Studies​, published online 24 September 2020 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Reply to Speaks”, Philosophical Studies, published online 24 September 2020​ (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Reply to Mendelovici and Bourget”, forthcoming in Inquiry​ (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Reply to Sawyer”, Inquiry​, published online 25 October 2020 (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Kas tähendus on suvaline?” [“Is Meaning Arbitrary?”], forthcoming in Akadeemia. Translated into Estonian by Henrik Sova.
  • “Modal Epistemology”, in John Hawthorne, ​Essays in Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming (with John Hawthorne) [Draft at Academia.edu]
  • “Knowledge of Objective Modality”, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 176 (2019), pp. 1155–1175 ​(with Margot Strohminger). [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers.]
  • “Operator Arguments Revisited”, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 176, (2019), pp. 2933–2959 (with John Hawthorne and Peter Fritz) [Draft at Academia.edu | PhilPapers]​
  • “The Necessity of Mathematics”, Noûs​, published online-first, 18 September 2018 (with John Hawthorne) [Draft at Academia.edu | PhilPapers]​
  • “Moderate Modal Skepticism”, in M. Benton, J. Hawthorne, and D. Rabinowitz, eds., Knowledge, Belief, and God: New Insights in Religious Epistemology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018, pp. 302-321 (with Margot Strohminger). [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers.]
  • “Semantic Externalism without Thought Experiments”, Analysis, Vol. 78 (2018), pp. 81–89 [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers.] Related:
    • A reply by ​Sarah Sawyer, Analysis, Vol. 78 (2018), pp. 675–681
    • A reply by Michael Rieppel, Analysis, Vol. 79 (2019), pp. 470-447
    • A reply by Casey Woodling, Philosophia, published online-first, 17 July 2019
  • “The Epistemology of Modality”, Analysis, Vol. 77 (2017), pp. 825-838 (with Margot Strohminger). [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers]
  • “Vagueness and Modality”, Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 30 (2016), pp. 229–269  (with Jon Litland).  [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers.]
  • “Epistemicism and Modality”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 46, Nos. 4-5 (2016), pp. 803–835. [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers.] Related:
    • ​Appendix by Peter Fritz, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 46, Nos. 4-5 (2016), pp. 836–838.
    • A Reply by Timothy Williamson, Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 46, Nos. 4-5 (2016), pp. 839-851.
  • “Propositions and Compositionality”, Philosophical Perspectives, Vol. 27 (2013), pp. 526-563.  [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers.]
  • “Modal Skepticism and Counterfactual Knowledge”, Philosophical Studies, Vol. 162 (2013), pp. 605–623  [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers.]
  • “Habitual and Conditional Analyses of Disposition Ascriptions”, Philosophical Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 240 (2010), pp. 664-670. [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers.]
  • “Causal and Explanatory Autonomy: Comments on Menzies and List”. In G. Macdonald and C. Macdonald, eds., Emergence in Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010, pp. 129-138 (with Ausonio Marras). [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers.]
  • “Reference and Extension”. In P. C. Hogan, ed., The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2010, pp. 705-707 (with James McGilvray). 
  • “The Supervenience Argument”. In S. Gozzano and F. Orilia, eds., Tropes, Universals, and the Philosophy of Mind. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag, 2008, pp. 101-132 (with Ausonio Marras). [Archived at Academia.edu | PhilPapers.]

​Work in Progress

Books

  • Vagueness and Ignorance (with John Hawthorne)

Articles

  • “Being in a Position to Know” (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Higher-Order Logic as Metaphysics” (with Zachary Goodsell)
  • “Rigid Designation”
  • “Propositional Attitudes” (with John Hawthorne)
  • “Structural Unknowability” (with John Hawthorne)
  • ​“Counterpart Theory and Modal Logic” [Draft at Academia.edu]​
  • “Rigidity and limits of stipulation“
  • “Purely Logical Opacity”
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