Selected Publications


 

Books

Designation (1981)
Realism and Truth (1984/1991/1997)
Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language (with Kim Sterelny) (1987/1999)
Coming to Our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (1996)
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language (co-edited with Richard Hanley) (2006)
Ignorance of Language (2006)

 

Papers

1.   Philosophy of Language

1.1 Meaning

Meaning and Use (2002)

A Shocking Idea about Meaning (2001)

Precis of Coming to Our Senses (1997)

A Priori Convictions about Psychology (1997)

Meanings and Psychology: A Reply to Mark Richard (1997)

Responses to the Maribor Papers (1997)

The Methodology of Naturalistic Semantics (1994)

A Critique of the Case for Semantic Holism (1993)

Meanings Just Ain't in the Head (1990)

On Removing Puzzles about Belief Ascription (1990)

            Reference

Rigid Application (2005)

The Case for Referential Descriptions (2004)

Theories of Reference (2003)

Reference (1998)

On Determining Reference (1997)

Naturalistic Representation (1991)

2.   Philosophy of Linguistics

Intuitions in Linguistics (2006)

Defending Ignorance of Language: Responses to the Dubrovnik Papers (2006)

Linguistics is not Psychology (2003)

 

3.   Metaphysics

3.1 Realism

Scientific Realism (2005)

Worldmaking Made Hard (2004)

Moral Realism: A Naturalistic Perspective (2002)

Underdetermination and Realism (2002)

Incommensurability and the Priority of Metaphysics (2001)

Sustaining Actualism (2001)

A Naturalistic Defense of Realism (1999)

Putting Metaphysics First (1998)

3.2 Truth

The Metaphysics of Truth (2001)

Minimalist Truth (1991)

3.3 Mind

Intuitions (2006)

Transcending Transcendentalism: A Response to Boghossian (1991)

Why Fodor Can't Have it Both Ways (1991)

Transcendentalism about Content (1990)

3.4 Nonfactualism

The Metaphysics of Nonfactualism (1996)

 

4. A Priori Knowledge

There is No A Priori (2005)
Reply to Bonjour (2005)

Naturalism and the A Priori (1998)

5.   Sundry

Responses to the Rijeka Papers (2006)


 


 


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