Gratitude
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I have a paper arguing in defence of propositional gratitude -- gratitude that such-and-such is the case -- as a component of gratitude alongside the more familiar directed gratitude -- gratitude to so-and-so (for what-have-you). I'm also working on companion pieces on the nature of ingratitude and the relation of gratitude to the virtues.
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Processes
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I'm working on a paper in which I advocate an account of processes along broadly the lines given by Rowland Stout, but argue that the best solution to the Imperfective Paradox, concerning how to understand assertions with progressive aspect, suggests there can be no partial processes, that is, processes cannot be interrupted or finish before their time.
As well as being of independent interest, this is also groundwork for a larger project in which I elaborate and defend an ontology of a single process instantiating properties in spatiotemporally local ways. |