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62Davidson's Sentences and Wittgenstein's BuildersProceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association 68 (2). 1994.Words stand for things of various kinds and for various kinds of things. Because words do this, the sentences made up of words mean what they do, and are capable of expressing our thoughts, our beliefs and conjectures, desires and wishes. This simple idea seems right to me, but it flies in the face of formidable authority. In a famous passage in “Reality without Reference,” Donald Davidson criticizes what he calls the “building-block theory:”.
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22Predelli's Threatening Note: Contexts, Utterances, and Tokens in the Philosophy of LanguageJournal of Pragmatics 35 (3): 373--387. 2003.
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59Situation Theory and its Applications Vol. (edited book)CSLI Publications. 1990.Preface This volume represents the proceedings of the First Conference on Situation Theory and Its Applications held by CSLI at Asilomar, California, ...
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98IndexicalsIn Edwards (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Philosophy Supplement, Simon and Schuster Macmillan. pp. 257--258. 1996.
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363Personal identity, memory, and the problem of circularityIn Personal Identity, University of California Press. 1975.
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16The importance of being identicalIn Amelie Oksenberg Rorty (ed.), The Identities of Persons, University of California Press. pp. 67-90. 1976.
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700A Dialogue on Personal Identity and ImmortalityHackett. 1977.A DIALOGUE on PERSONAL IDENTITY and IMMORTALITY This is a record of conversations of Gretchen We/rob, a teacher of philosophy at a small mid- western ...
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195What is information?In Philip P. Hanson (ed.), Information, Language and Cognition, University of British Columbia Press. 1990.
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132Knowledge, Possibility, and ConsciousnessMIT Press. 2001.A defense of antecedent physicalism, which argues against the idea that if everything that goes on in the universe is physical, our consciousness and feelings ..
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41Mary and Max and jack and NedIn Dean Zimmerman (ed.), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press. pp. 79. 2006.
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74Précis of Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 68 (1). 2004.In Knowledge, Possibility and Consciousness I argue that the Zombie Argument, the Knowledge Argument, and the Modal Argument do not provide people with broadly common-sensical views about consciousness and the mental, and an inclination towards physicalism, any reasons not to be physicalists. That is, they do not support the doctrine of neo-dualism, advocated by Chalmers, Jackson, and others: although the mind may be the brain, qualia, the what-its-like properties of experiences that makes them …Read more
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496Themes From Kaplan (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1989.This anthology of essays on the work of David Kaplan, a leading contemporary philosopher of language, sprang from a conference, "Themes from Kaplan," organized by the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University.
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291Compatibilist OptionsIn and D. Shier M. O'Rourke J. K. Campbell (ed.), Freedom and Determinism, Mit Press. pp. 231. 2004.…those who accept that responsibility for a situation implies an ability to bring it about and, perhaps, an ability to prevent it, must explain how agents are able to do other than they are caused to do. Without it, they can give no defense of their counterexamples. With it, they can be confident that.
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48Situation semantics was originally conceived as an alternative to extensional model theory and possible world semantics especially suited to the analysis of various problematic constructions, including naked-infinitive perception verbs (Barwise 1981) and belief-reports (Barwise and Perry 1981a, 1981b). In its earliest forms, the central ideas were.
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42Directing intentionsIn Joseph Almog & Paolo Leonardi (eds.), The philosophy of David Kaplan, Oxford University Press. pp. 187--201. 2010.
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260Broadening the Mind (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (1): 223-231. 1998.The main topic of Jerry Fodor’s The Elm and the Expert,1, and the title of the first chapter, is “If Psychological processes are computational, how can psychological laws be intentional?” I focus on the first and second chapters; The first is devoted to setting up the question, the second to answering it
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1383The Prince and the Phone Booth: Reporting Puzzling BeliefsJournal of Philosophy 86 (12): 685. 1989.Beliefs are concrete particulars containing ideas of properties and notions of things, which also are concrete. The claim made in a belief report is that the agent has a belief (i) whose content is a specific singular proposition, and (ii) which involves certain of the agent's notions and ideas in a certain way. No words in the report stand for the notions and ideas, so they are unarticulated constituents of the report's content (like the relevant place in "it's raining"). The belief puzzles (He…Read more
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29Return of the zombies?In Hill Christopher & Gozzano Simone (eds.), New Perspectives on Type Identity: The Mental and the Physical, Cambridge University Press. pp. 251. 2012.
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213Indexicals, Contexts and Unarticulated ConstituentsIn Atocha Aliseda-Llera, Rob J. Van Glabbeek & Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Proceedings of the 1995 CSLI-Armsterdam Logic, Language and Computation Conference, Csli Publications. 1998.Philosophers and logicians use the term “indexical” for words such as “I”, “you” and “tomorrow”. Demonstratives such as “this” and “that” and demonstratives phrases such as “this man” and “that computer” are usually reckoned as a subcategory of indexicals. (Following [Kaplan, 1989a].) The “context-dependence” of indexicals is often taken as a defining feature: what an indexical designates shifts from context to context. But there are many kinds of shiftiness, with corresponding conceptions of co…Read more
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72Fodor and psychological explanationIn Barry M. Loewer (ed.), Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics, Blackwell. 1991.[In Meaning in Mind, edited by Barry Loewer and Georges Rey. Oxford: Basil Black- well, 1991, 165.
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203Semantic Innocence and Uncompromising SituationsMidwest Studies in Philosophy 6 (1): 387-404. 1981.
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1318The problem of the essential indexicalNoûs 13 (1): 3-21. 1979.Perry argues that certain sorts of indexicals are 'essential', in the sense that they cannot be eliminated in favor of descriptions. This paper also introduces the influential idea that certain sorts of indexicals play a special role in thought, and have a special connection to action.
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411Situations and AttitudesMIT Press. 1983.This volume tackles the slippery subject of 'meaning'.
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119Myself and "I"In Marcelo Stamm (ed.), Philosophie in Synthetischer Absicht, . pp. 83--103. 1998.In this essay I distinguish three kinds of self-knowledge. I call these three kinds agent-relative knowledge, self-attached knowledge and knowledge of the person one happens to be. These aspects of self-knowledge dier in how the knower or agent is represented. Most of what I say will be applicable to beliefs as well as knowledge, and to other kinds of attitudes and thoughts, such as desire, as well.1 Agent-relative knowledge is knowledge from the perspective of a particular agent. To have this s…Read more
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