My Papers

Welcome to my papers page! These papers are all unpublished, so they're subject to change without warning. They are divided into two groups: finished drafts and drafts in progress. The finished drafts are meant to be the kind of thing you might send to a journal. The drafts in progress are less finished than that. They're in alphabetical order and PDF format. Please don't cite them without asking me. If you want to ask me or you have any comments, my email address is michaelbenchcapon@hotmail.com. I'm also on Twitter and Mastodon.

My PhD thesis, called Empty Names, is here.

Finished drafts 

• A solution to the lawn-mowing puzzle
• Barriers to paraconsistent implication 
• Belief ascriptions and sential quantification
• Composition as identity without collapse
• Divers and González-Varela on beliefs about necessity
• Mixed conjunctions and mixed truth

Drafts in progress

• Is gunk really conceivable?
• Mixing intuitionism and classical logic 
• Rationalizing the Principal Principle
• The enfranchisement of children
• Tolerance, transparency, transitivity, and tonk