James Miller
@jtmmiller.bsky.social
Philosopher based at Durham University. Primarily work on topics in metaphysics and ontology, and the philosophy of language and linguistics. https://sites.google.com/site/jamestmmiller/home
I wrote up a short overview of a recent paper of mine, available here for anyone interested newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/water-and-...
‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin-Earth and the Metaphysics of Words - James (JTM) Miller (Durham University)
Journal of the American Philosophical Association, Online First
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September 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
I wrote up a short overview of a recent paper of mine, available here for anyone interested newworkinphilosophy.substack.com/p/water-and-...
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I suspect most philosophers think some topics have had so much written about them, there isn't much more to say. And many will think that Putnam and Twin-Earth is one of them. Well, to prove that wrong, I've got a new paper just out on Putnam, Twin-Earth, and why that argument doesn't work #PhilSky
‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin-Earth and the Metaphysics of Words | Journal of the American Philosophical Association | Cambridge Core
‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin-Earth and the Metaphysics of Words
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-the-american-philosophical-association/article/water-and-water-on-twinearth-and-the-metaphysics-of-words/DA051CDE59342B8CC89A41A70C2D3E4F##PhilSky
July 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I suspect most philosophers think some topics have had so much written about them, there isn't much more to say. And many will think that Putnam and Twin-Earth is one of them. Well, to prove that wrong, I've got a new paper just out on Putnam, Twin-Earth, and why that argument doesn't work #PhilSky
My latest paper now officially published (open access) after some delays in processing. It is about how to account for misspelling (and other forms of linguistic errors) without positing abstract word-types. Another part of my 'no need to posit word-types' series... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
How to Misspell ‘Paris’ | Philosophy | Cambridge Core
How to Misspell ‘Paris’ - Volume 99 Issue 4
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March 19, 2025 at 11:04 AM
My latest paper now officially published (open access) after some delays in processing. It is about how to account for misspelling (and other forms of linguistic errors) without positing abstract word-types. Another part of my 'no need to posit word-types' series... www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
New paper just published online (and open access)! Philosophers/metaphysicians have paid very little/no attention to puns before, and I think we should. I argue that puns provide (another) reason to be nominalists about words.
philpapers.org/rec/MILTMO-64
philpapers.org/rec/MILTMO-64
Jtm Miller, The Metaphysics of Puns - PhilPapers
In this paper, I aim to discuss what puns, metaphysically, are. I argue that the type-token view of words leads to an indeterminacy problem when we consider puns. I then outline ...
philpapers.org
April 19, 2024 at 2:26 PM
New paper just published online (and open access)! Philosophers/metaphysicians have paid very little/no attention to puns before, and I think we should. I argue that puns provide (another) reason to be nominalists about words.
philpapers.org/rec/MILTMO-64
philpapers.org/rec/MILTMO-64
In Nice to give a paper at the SPE/Oasis conference (spe-uca.sciencesconf.org). The weather is not quite the same as Durham in early/mid October...
October 11, 2023 at 6:26 AM
In Nice to give a paper at the SPE/Oasis conference (spe-uca.sciencesconf.org). The weather is not quite the same as Durham in early/mid October...