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132Beauty and languageBritish Journal of Aesthetics 47 (3): 258-267. 2007.I argue against Hume and Kant, who maintain that ‘beauty’ expresses a state of the subject, rather than describes features of the object. The word ‘beauty’ is far from being alone in having an expressive dimension, and that which it has falls short of individuating it semantically. Instead, I propose a theory of linguistic idealism with respect to ‘beauty’
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4312 Modern PhilosophersWiley-Blackwell. 2010.Featuring essays from leading philosophical scholars, __12 Modern Philosophers__ explores the works, origins, and influences of twelve of the most important late 20th Century philosophers working in the analytic tradition. Draws on essays from well-known scholars, including Thomas Baldwin, Catherine Wilson, Adrian Moore and Lori Gruen Locates the authors and their oeuvre within the context of the discipline as a whole Considers how contemporary philosophy both draws from, and contributes to, the…Read more
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32Quine’s Criticisms of SemanticsIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Philosophy of Language and Linguistics: The Legacy of Frege, Russell, and Wittgenstein, De Gruyter. pp. 139-160. 2014.
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1Michael Dummett, Origins of Analytical PhilosophyJournal of the History of Philosophy 33 (4): 699-699. 1995.
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47Critical notice of Alan Richardson,'Carnap's construction of the world: the Aufbau and the emergence of logical empiricism'Philosophical Books 40 (2): 89-98. 1999.
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633Editors' IntroductionIn Frederique Janssen-Lauret & Gary Kemp (eds.), Quine and His Place in History, Palgrave. pp. 1-7. 2014.Editors' introduction which discusses Quine's place in the history of analytic philosophy and the content of the papers collected in this volume.
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80Review of W. V. Quine, Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays; and, Quine in Dialogue (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2009 (4). 2009.
University of California, Santa Barbara
Department of Philosophy, University of California, Santa Barbara
PhD, 1993
Areas of Specialization
| Philosophy of Language |
| Aesthetics |
| 20th Century Philosophy |
| Metaphysics and Epistemology |