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221Kuhn's world changesIn Thomas Nickles (ed.), Thomas Kuhn, Cambridge University Press. pp. 246. 2003.
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201Conditional assertions and "biscuit" conditionalsNoûs 33 (3): 405-420. 1999.kind of joke to ask what is the case if the antecedent is false—“And where are the biscuits if I don’t want any?”, “And what’s on PBS if I’m not interested?”, “And who shot Kennedy if that’s not what I’m asking?”. With normal indicative conditionals like.
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138Information-based epistemology, ecological epistemology and epistemology naturalizedSynthese 70 (February): 191-203. 1987.Shannon's notion of information is more useful for naturalized epistemology than Dretske's
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73Philosophical grounds of rationality: intentions, categories, ends (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1986.H.P. Grice is known principally for his influential contributions to the philosophy of language, but his work also includes treatises on the philosophy of mind, ethics, and metaphysics--much of which is unpublished to date. This collection of original essays by such philosophers as Nancy Cartwright, Donald Davidson, Gilbert Harman, and P.F. Strawson demonstrates the unified and powerful character of Grice's thoughts on being, mind, meaning, and morals. An introductory essay by the editors provid…Read more
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67Epistemology Naturalized and "Epistemology Naturalized"Midwest Studies in Philosophy 19 (1): 341-349. 1994.
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65Semantic intentions and linguistic structure: comments on Schiffer's paper: "Intention-based semantics"Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 23 (n/a): 327-332. 1982.
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55A definition of truth for theories with intensional definite description operatorsJournal of Philosophical Logic 1 (2): 137--155. 1972.
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51An Ockhamite Criticism of Church SemanticsThe Monist 61 (3): 401-407. 1978.Ockham’s criticisms of earlier theories of universals depend on the fact that they are universals, that the supposed entities are essentially different in kind from particulars. Since modern theories which postulate the existence of senses or propositions as part of a semantic theory make no such claims about those entities it would seem that Ockham’s views are irrelevant to disputes over the value of those semantic theories. That is, for Frege, Church and others the senses or propositions postu…Read more
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47Words and Objections: Essays on the Work of W. V. QuinePhilosophical Review 82 (1): 99-110. 1973.Articles: Smart, "Quine's Philosophy of science"; Harman, "An Introduction to 'Translation and Meaning', Chapter Two of Word and Object"; Stenius, "Beginning with Ordinary Things"; Chomsky, "Quine's Empirical Assumptions"; Hintikka, "Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation"; Stroud, "Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation"; Strawson, "Singular Terms and Predication"; Grice, "Vacuous Names"; Geach, "Quine's Syntactical Insights"; Davidson, "On Saying That"; Follesdal, "Quine on M…Read more
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44Students often study logic on the assumption that it provides a normative guide to reasoning in English. In particular, they are taught to associate connectives like “and” with counterparts in Sentential Logic. English conditionals go over to formulas with → as principal connective. The well-known difficulties that arise from such translation are not emphasized. The result is the conviction that ordinary reasoning is faulty when discordant with the usual representation in standard logic. Psycholo…Read more
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39Rule systems are not dead: Existential quantifiers are harderBehavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (2): 351-352. 1993.
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