I am an assistant professor at the University of Southern California; before this I held a Junior Research Fellowship at Magdalen College, Oxford. I'm currently working on issues relating to conditionals, vagueness and the semantic paradoxes, but I'm interested in just about any topic in metaphysics, epistemology, the philosophy of language, philosophical logic or the philosophy of mathematics.

Contact information

E-mail: ab(remove me)acon@usc.edu
Address: Andrew Bacon, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern California, 3709 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles, CA 90089
Office: 224 Stonier Hall

Papers

A paradox for supertask decision makers. Philosophical Studies: Volume 153, Issue 2 (2011), Page 307. Penultimate draft: PDF

A new conditional for naïve truth theory. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic. Volume 54, Number 1 (2013), 87-104. Penultimate draft: PDF

Non-wellfounded mereology. (with Aaron J. Cotnoir) The Review of Symbolic Logic. Volume 5, Issue 02, June 2012, pp 187-204. Penultimate draft: PDF

Non-classical metatheory for non-classical logics. Journal of Philosophical Logic. Forthcoming. Penultimate draft PDF

Curry's paradox and omega-inconsistency. Studia Logica. Volume 101, Issue 1, February 2013, pp 1-9. Penultimate draft: PDF

Representing Counterparts. The Australasian Journal of Logic. Forthcoming

In progress

Quantificational logic and empty names. In progress.

Vagueness at every order: the prospects of denying B. In progress.

In defence of a naive epistemology of conditionals. In progress.

Two counterexamples to van Fraassen's reflection principle. In progress.

Opaque semantics. In progress.

Margins and estimates. In progress.

Other


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