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I am a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Leeds. I completed my Ph.D. within Arche in 2005.

A description of my areas of research, etc, is available at my Leeds personal website

My work in progress can now be found at: JRGW work in progress site

Recent Presentations

Paper	Presentation	Date
There is no "might" argument against Conditional Excluded Middle	Arche maths seminar, St Andrews	June 2006
On the possibility of gunk	CMM Seminar, University of Leeds	March 2006
Multiple Actualities	WIP seminar, University of Leeds	November 2005
The possibility of onion worlds	CMM Seminar, University of Leeds	November 2005
Good inference and context	Senior Seminar, University of Leeds	October 2005
An argument for the many	Graduate Session at the Joint Session Conference	July 2005
Eligibility and inscrutability	Barcelona Workshop on the Origins of Reference	June 2005
Good inference and context	Ockham Society, University of Oxford	May 2005
What is inscrutability?	Arche Vagueness Seminar, St Andrews	April 2005
Reductive Paraphrase	Arche Mathematics Seminar, St Andrews	April 2005
Validity, Context and Inscrutability	Arche Mathematics Seminar, St Andrews	February 2005
Counterfactuals, Similarity and Chance	Arche Modality Seminar, St Andrews	January 2005
Complex numbers and reference	Arche Abstraction Workshop	October 2004

Older Work: No longer in progress

There's a fair bit of stuff I did while a postgrad (not too long ago!) that I'd like to return to at some point. Some of these need fairly extensive overhaul, as I am now older and wiser. A few of these papers:

A paradox in the theory of meaning
On the pragmatics of vagueness
The semantic lottery (or: how meaning might fail to supervene on use)
Quantifiers, attitudes and implicature
Complex numbers and reference
Cauchy abstraction principles and the complex numbers

A list of presentations + handouts is now at:

RobbiePresentationsEtc

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