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71Inferences about Members of Kinds: The Generics HypothesisLanguage and Cognitive Processes 27 887-900. 2012.
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55Redemption and the Sacred Subject: Themes from WagnerIn Andy Hamilton & Nick Zangwill (eds.), Scruton's Aesthetics, Palgrave-macmillan. 2012.
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192Conceptual distinctions amongst genericsCognition 126 (3): 405-422. 2013.Generic sentences (e.g., bare plural sentences such as “dogs have four legs” and “mosquitoes carry malaria”) are used to talk about kinds of things. Three experiments investigated the conceptual foundations of generics as well as claims within the formal semantic approaches to generics concerning the roles of prevalence, cue validity and normalcy in licensing generics. Two classes of generic sentences that pose challenges to both the conceptually based and formal semantic approaches to generics …Read more
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406Essence and natural kinds: When science meets preschooler intuitionOxford Studies in Epistemology 4 108-66. 2013.The present paper focuses on essentialism about natural kinds as a case study in order to illustrate this more general point. Saul Kripke and Hilary Putnam famously argued that natural kinds have essences, which are discovered by science, and which determine the extensions of our natural kind terms and concepts. This line of thought has been enormously influential in philosophy, and is often taken to have been established beyond doubt. The argument for the conclusion, however, makes critical use…Read more
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107Do Lions have Manes? For Children, Generics are about Kinds, not QuantitiesChild Development 83 423-433. 2012.
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82Quantified Statements are Recalled as Generics: Evidence from Preschool Children and AdultsCognitive Psychology 64 (186): 214. 2012.
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76All Ducks Lay Eggs: The Generic Overgeneralization EffectJournal of Memory and Language 65 15-31. 2011.
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Cognitive Science |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |