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Truthmaker Accounts of Propositions (2022)
Book Chapter
Jago, M. (2022). Truthmaker Accounts of Propositions. In C. Tillman, & A. R. Murray (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Propositions. Routledge

Truthmaker Semantics for Relevant Logic (2020)
Journal Article
Jago, M. (2020). Truthmaker Semantics for Relevant Logic. Journal of Philosophical Logic, 49, 681-702. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-019-09533-9

I develop and defend a truthmaker semantics for the relevant logic R. The approach begins with a simple philosophical idea and develops it in various directions, so as to build a technically adequate relevant semantics. The central philosophical idea... Read More about Truthmaker Semantics for Relevant Logic.

Impossible Worlds (2019)
Book
Berto, F., & Jago, M. (2019). Impossible Worlds. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198812791.001.0001

The latter half of the twentieth century witnessed an ‘intensional revolution’, a great collective effort to analyse notions which are absolutely fundamental to our understanding of the world and of ourselves—from meaning and information to knowledge... Read More about Impossible Worlds.

Logic for exact entailment (2019)
Journal Article
Fine, K., & Jago, M. (2019). Logic for exact entailment. Review of Symbolic Logic, 12(3), 536-556. https://doi.org/10.1017/s1755020318000151

An exact truthmaker for A is a state which, as well as guaranteeing A's truth, is wholly relevant to it. States with parts irrelevant to whether A is true do not count as exact truthmakers for A. Giving semantics in this way produces a very unusual c... Read More about Logic for exact entailment.

Knowing how things might have been (2018)
Journal Article
Jago, M. (2021). Knowing how things might have been. Synthese, 198(S8), 1981–1999. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1869-6

I know that I could have been where you are right now and that you could have been where I am right now, but that neither of us could have been turnips or natural numbers. This knowledge of metaphysical modality stands in need of explanation. I will... Read More about Knowing how things might have been.

From nature to grounding (2018)
Book Chapter
Jago, M. (2018). From nature to grounding. In R. Bliss, & G. Priest (Eds.), Reality and its structure: essays in fundamentality. Oxford University Press

Grounding is a powerful metaphysical concept; yet there is widespread scepticism about the intelligibility of the notion. In this paper, I propose an account of an entity’s nature or essence, which I then use to provide grounding conditions for that... Read More about From nature to grounding.

Essential bundle theory and modality (2018)
Journal Article
Jago, M. (2021). Essential bundle theory and modality. Synthese, 198(4), 1439–1454. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-018-1819-3

Bundle theories identify material objects with bundles of properties. On the traditional approach, these are the properties possessed by that material object. That view faces a deep problem: it seems to say that all of an object’s properties are esse... Read More about Essential bundle theory and modality.

What Truth Is (2018)
Book
Jago, M. (2018). What Truth Is. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198823810.001.0001

© Mark Jago 2018. What Truth Is presents and defends a novel theory of what truth is, in terms of the metaphysical notion of truthmaking. This is the relation which holds between a truth and some entity in the world, in virtue of which that truth is... Read More about What Truth Is.

Material Objects and Essential Bundle Theory (2017)
Journal Article
BARKER, S., & Jago, M. (2018). Material Objects and Essential Bundle Theory. Philosophical Studies, 175(12), 2969-2986. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-0990-6

In this paper we present a new metaphysical theory of material objects. On our theory, objects are bundles of property instances, where those properties give the nature or essence of that object. We call the theory essential bundle theory. Property p... Read More about Material Objects and Essential Bundle Theory.

Material objects and essential bundle theory (2017)
Journal Article
Barker, S., & Jago, M. (2017). Material objects and essential bundle theory. Philosophical Studies, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-017-0990-6

In this paper we present a new metaphysical theory of material objects. On our theory, objects are bundles of property instances, where those properties give the nature or essence of that object. We call the theory essential bundle theory. Property p... Read More about Material objects and essential bundle theory.