Emeritus Professor Max Cresswell
Max.Cresswell@mcs.vuw.ac.nzFestschrift for Max on the occasion of his 65th birthday, Logique et Analyse, Vol. 46 No. 181 (2003).
Research Interests
Logic (particularly modal logic, espcially modal predicate logic), formal semantics, ancient philosophy, the philosophy of John Locke, and the philosophy of F.H.Bradley.Books
- An Introduction to Modal Logic (with G.E. Hughes), Methuen, 1968
- Logics and Languages, Methuen, 1973
- A Companion to Modal Logic (with G.E. Hughes), Methuen, 1984
- Structured Meanings: The Semantics of Propositional Attitudes, Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1985
- Adverbial Modification, Reidel, 1985
- Semantical Essays: Possible Worlds and Their Rivals, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988
- Entities and Indices, Kluwer, 1990
- Language in the World Cambridge University Press, 1994
- Semantic Indexicality, Kluwer, 1996
- A New Introduction to Modal Logic (with G.E. Hughes), Routledge, 1996
Selected Articles
A. Modal Logic
Incompleteness and the Barcan Formula. Journal of Philosophical Logic Vol 24, 1995,
pp.379‑403
Some
incompletable modal predicate logics. Logique et Analyse No 160, 1997,
pp. 321-334
How
to complete some modal predicate logics. Advances in Modal Logic, Vol 2,
(ed M. Zakharyaschev, K. Segerberg, M. de Rijke and H. Wansing.), CSLI
Publications, 2001, pp. 155-178
Possibility semantics for intuitionist logic.
Australasian Journal of Logic, Vol 2, 2004, pp.11-29
B. Semantics
The
semantics of degree. Montague Grammar (B.H. Partee ed.), Academic Press,
Semantic
competence. Meaning and Translation (F. Guenthner and M. Guenthner‑Reutter,
eds), Duckworth, 1978, pp.9‑27
Why
propositions have no structure. Nous Vol 36, 2002, pp. 643-662
Static
semantics for dynamic discourse. Linguistics and Philosophy Vol 25,
2002, pp. 545-571
Adequacy
conditions for counterpart theory. Australasian Journal of Philosophy,
Vol 82, 2004, pp. 28-41
C. History of Philosophy
Is
there one or are there many one and many problems in Plato? The Philosophical
Quarterly Vol 22, 1972, pp.149‑154
What
is Aristotle’s theory of universals? Australasian Journal of Philosophy
Vol 53, 1975, pp.238‑247
Reality
as experience in F.H. Bradley. Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol
55, 1977, pp.169‑188
Aristotle’s
Phaedo. Australasian Journal of Philosophy Vol 65, 1987, pp.131‑155
All
things being particulars. Locke Studies Vol 2, 2002, pp. 19-51
Non‑contradiction and substantial predication. Theoria, 69 (2004), 166-183.
Legitimizing force: A Lockean account. Armed Forces and Society, 30 (2004), 629-648.
