Unpublished Papers

Recently Written

Review of Paul Gregory, Quine's Naturalism

Prepared for Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews.
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"Axiomatizing the Logic of Comparative Probability"

Written for submission to the 50th anniversary issue of the Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, and a very belated sequel to my first publication ever.
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"Friedman and the Axiomatization of Kripke's Theory of Truth"

Talk for the Ohio State University conference celebrating Harvey Friedman's 60th birthday. May appear in a volume of proceedings of the event.
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"Putting Structuralism in Its Place"

Talk given to the Stanford logic colloquium in January, 2009, and the conference on philosophy of mathematics at NYU in April, 2009. May appear in an RSL volume of proceedings of the latter event.
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"Two Undecidable Questions About Group Actions"

A short note revisiting some basic questions of invariant descriptive set theory from my student years. Written for a special issue of Sankhya, the journal of the Indian Statistical Institute, dedicated to the memory of the institute's former director Ashok Maitra, who was one of my teachers.
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Forthcoming Publications

"On the Outside Looking In: A Caution About Conservativeness"

My contribution to the symposium on Goedel's philosophy of mathematics at the spring 2006 Association for Symbolic Logic meeting in Montreal. To appear in an ASL volume of proceedings of the Goedel sessions at that meeting.
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Review of Charles Parsons, Mathematics in Philosophy

Prepared for Philosophy of Science.
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Review of Charles Parsons, Mathematical Thought and Its Objects

Prepared for Philosophy of Science.
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"Kripke Models"

Expository. To appear in Cambridge University Press Contemporary Philosophers series, volume on Saul Kripke, edited by Alan Berger.
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"Kripke on Truth"

To appear in the same volume as the preceding. Contains some information on Kripke's unpublised work.
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Further Publications

To download my curriculum vitae as a Word document click here. Electronic files for most items since 1995, and hard-copy reprints of most the items before that date are available on request. (Be sure to indicate to what address you want it sent.) My e-mail address is: jburgess@princeton.edu