Ken Akiba is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. He came to VCU in 2004. He has published in such areas as philosophical logic, philosophy of language, and metaphysics.

Publications

Papers

“A new theory of quantifiers and term connectives.” Journal of Logic, Language and Information 18 (2009): 403–31.

“Probabilistic measures of coherence and the problem of belief individuation” (with Luca Moretti). Synthese 154 (2007): 73–95.

“A unified theory of quotation.” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 86 (2005): 161–71.

“Vagueness in the world.” Noûs 38 (2004): 407–29.

“Can deflationism allow for hidden indeterminacy?” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 83 (2002): 223–34.

“A deflationist approach to indeterminacy and vagueness.” Philosophical Studies 107 (2002): 69–86.

“Identity is simple.” American Philosophical Quarterly 37 (2000): 389–404.

“Shogenji’s probabilistic measure of coherence is incoherent.” Analysis 60 (2000): 356–59.

“Vagueness as a modality.” Philosophical Quarterly 50 (2000): 359–70.

“Indefiniteness of mathematical objects.” Philosophia Mathematica (3) 8 (2000): 26–46.

“Logic and truth: a fictionalist view.” Journal of Philosophical Research 25 (2000): 101–23.

“On super- and subvaluationism: a classicist’s reply to Hyde.” Mind 108 (1999): 727–32.

“Nominalistic metalogic.” Journal of Philosophical Logic 27 (1998): 35–47.

“Field on the notion of consistency.” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 37 (1996): 625–30.

“Logic as instrument: the Millian view on the role of logic.” History and Philosophy of Logic 17 (1996): 73–83. Reprinted in Victor Sanchez-Valencia (ed.), The General Philosophy of John Stuart Mill, 313–23 (Ashgate, 2002).

“Quine and the linguistic doctrine of logical truth.” Philosophical Studies 78 (1995): 237–56.