George Bealer

Professor of Philosophy
george.bealer@yale.edu

Online Papers

Selected Published Papers

Logic, Philosophy of Language, and Metaphysics

• An Inconsistency in Direct Reference Theory
• Propositions
• Analyticity
• Universals
• Universals and Properties
• A Solution to Frege’s Puzzle
• On the Identification of Properties and Propositional Functions
• Completeness in the Theory of Properties, Relations and Propositions
• Theories of Properties, Relations, and Propositions

Epistemology

• Origins of Modal Error
• Modal Epistemology and the Rationalist Renaissance
• Theory of the A Priori
• The Incoherence of Empiricism
• A Priori Knowledge and the Scope of Philosophy
• Philosophical Limits of Scientific Essentialism

Philosophy of Mind

• Fregean Equivocation and Ramsification on Sparse Theories
• Self–Consciousness
• Mental Properties
• Materialism and the Logical Structure of Intentionality

Unpublished Manuscripts

• “Knowledge Without Limits: A Semantical Paradox”
• “New Definitions of Necessity and Possibility”
• “Necessity Is Analyticity: A Proof”
• “A New Theory of Concepts and the Solution to Frege’s Puzzle”
• “Philosophy, Physics, and Intuition”
• “Ramsification and Intensionality”
• “Possibilist Language With Actualist Ontology”
• “Hartry Field’s Nominalism”
• “The Mind–Body Problem”
• “Mental Causation”
• “Gödel’s Second Incompleteness Theorem”
• “In Defense of Abundant, vs. Sparse, Non–well–Founded Set Theories”

Selected Bibliography

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