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At long, long last, here is my piece on Quine and truth, in Philosopher's Imprint. Refereeing was speedy enough but afterwards it languished for perhaps two years. I don't blame them, though. It's an on-line journal that has had trouble with funding etc. Quine's view is Tarskian -- strictly not, what some loose words suggest, deflationist or correspondence-to-fact.

Quine’s Tarskian Angle on Truth: Immanence, Semantic Ascent and the Importance of Generality There are two main parts to this article:  (1) Quine's view of truth is substantive in a way that is not generally recognized.  There are elements in the view of deflationism, minimalism, and of course disquotationalism to be sure, but from Quine's perspective the capacity for generalizati...

There are two jobs at the University of Glasgow that are open for philosophers to apply for. One is in medical humanities (https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/appointments/146088/) and the other is in scholarship relating to race and ethnicity, black and indigenous studies, reparative justice and decolonial pedagogies (https://www.gla.ac.uk/explore/jobs/appointments/146090/).

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