Selected Publications


Books

Designation (1981)

Realism and Truth (1984/1991/1997)

Realism and Truth Index 1997
(The 1997 Princeton edition is the 1991 Blackwell 2nd edition together with a new Afterword.
Its index is a reprint of the 1991 index and so does not cover the Afterword.)

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)

Putting Metaphysics First: Essays on Metaphysics and Epistemology (2010)
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Papers

1.   Philosophy of Language

1.1 Meaning

Still Against Direct Reference (2012)

Deference and the Use Theory (2011)

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)

Suspension of Judgment (1976)

1.2 Reference

Semantic Epistemology: Response to Machery (2012)

Whither Experimental Semantics? (2012)

Experimental Semantics (2011)

Buenos Aires Symposium on Definite Descriptions: Responses (2009)

Buenos Aires Symposium on Rigidity: Responses (2009)

Referential Descriptions and Conversational Implicatures (2008)

Referential Descriptions: A Note on Bach (2008)

Reference Borrowing: A Response to Dunja Jutronić (2008)

Rigid Application (2005)

The Case for Referential Descriptions (2004)

Theories of Reference (2003)

Reference (1998)

On Determining Reference (1997)

Naturalistic Representation (1991)

Critical Notice of The Varieties of Reference by Gareth Evans (1985)

Donnellan’s Distinction (1981)

Brian Loar on Singular Terms (1980)

Singular Terms (1974)

2. Philosophy of Linguistics

Linguistic Intuitions Revisited (2010)

What ‘Intuitions’ are Linguistic Evidence? (2010)

Psychological Conception, Psychological Reality (2009)

Explanation and Reality in Linguistics (2008)

A Response to Collins’ Note (2008)

Methodology in the Philosophy of Linguistics (2008)

Intuitions in Linguistics (2006)

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

Linguistics is not Psychology (2003) 

What's Wrong with the Right View (1989)

3. Metaphysics

3.1 Realism

Hilary and Me: Tracking Putnam on the Realism Debate (2012)

Are Unconceived Alternatives a Problem for Scientific Realism? (2012)

Realism/Anti-Realism (2008)

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)

Abberations of the Realism Debate (1991)

Realism without Representation: A Response to Appiah (1991)

Dummett's Anti-Realism (1983)

3.2 Truth

The Metaphysics of Truth (2001)

Minimalist Truth (1991)

3.3 Mind

Methodology and the Nature of Knowing How (2011)

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) 

3.5 Biology

Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms (2011)

Biological Realisms (2009)

Resurrecting Biological Essentialism (2008)

4. Epistemology

The Role of Intuitions in the Philosophy of Language (2012)

Linguistic Knowledge (2011)

No Place for the A Priori (2011)

On Determining What There Isn't (2009)

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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