Unpublished Papers

Papers Expected to Appear in Print Soon Enough

"Meditations on Second Philosophy: Anti-Nominalist Reflections on Maddy's Semi-Nominalism"

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"Construction Theorems and Constructive Proofs in Geometry"

A logician's footnote to a classical philosophy / history of mathematics paper by Jonathan Beere and Benjamin Morison.
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Orphaned Papers

"Parsons and the Structuralist View"

.Invited contribution to a volume on the thought of Charles Parsons that has not materialized. To download in pdf format click here.

"On a Challenge of Parsons"

A very short note on the development of arithmetic in set theory without infinity.
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Review of Harold Noonan, Kripke and Naming and Necessity

Written to fit a short word limit of the journal that solicited it but then never published or even acknowledged receipt of it.
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"Satan, Baalzebub, and Peter Geach"

From a conference talk of 2005, on Geach's notion of nominal essence, with a new section on Geach's notion of quasi-name.
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"Mentality & Modality"

About the supervenience thesis in philosophy of mind.
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Further Publications

To download my curriculum vitae in doc format click here or to download in pdf format 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