Publications

 
 Japanese Translation of D. Lewis Counterfactuals (1986/1973)

(2007) Keiso Shobo: Tokyo.

I translated Lewis' Counterfactuals into Japanese, including

 translator's commentary 50 pages long.
 
A Dynamic Semantics for Vague Predicates
 
 The Annals of the Japan Association for Philosophy of Science 12(2): 109-128.
 
 ABSTRACT: Since the mid-seventies, supervaluationism has been
 supported because of its capacity to give a conservative semantics 
 for vauge predicates and to avoid the so-called sorites paradox. 
 As many opponents point out, however, this framework has something 
 elusive and leaves sereval things unexplained. Dynamic semantics, 
 which I present here, is introduced to interpret the elusiveness
 positively from an information-theoretic point of view. The aim 
 of the paper is to present a dynamic semantics for vague predicates 
 as a revised version of supervaluationism.