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107Remembering, imagining, and the first personIn Alex Barber (ed.), Epistemology of language, Oxford University Press. pp. 496--533. 2003.
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170On linguistics in philosophy, and philosophy in linguisticsLinguistics and Philosophy 25 (5-6): 573-584. 2002.After reviewing some major features of theinteractions between Linguistics and Philosophyin recent years, I suggest that the depth and breadthof current inquiry into semanticshas brought this subject into contact both with questionsof the nature of linguistic competence and with modern andtraditional philosophical study of the nature ofour thoughts, and the problems of metaphysics.I see this development as promising for thefuture of both subjects.
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76Languages and idiolects: their language and oursIn Ernie Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 140--50. 2005.An idiolectal conception of language is compatible with a substantive role for external things — objects, including other people — in the characterization of idiolects. Illustrations of this role are not hard to come by. The point of looking outward from the individual is pretty evident for the case of reference to perceptually encountered objects: had the world been significantly different, a person with the same molecular history would have acquired, and called by the same familiar names, diff…Read more
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183Speaking of events (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2000.The idea that an adequate semantics of ordinary language calls for some theory of events has sparked considerable debate among linguists and philosophers. On the one hand, so many linguistic phenomena appear to be explained if (and, according to some authors, only if) we make room for logical forms in which reference to or quantification over events is explicitly featured. Examples include nominalization, adverbial modification, tense and aspect, plurals, and singular causal statements. On the o…Read more
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1On the Nature of Language: A Basic ExpositionIn Manuel García-Carpintero & Max Kölbel (eds.), The Continuum companion to the philosophy of language, Continuum International. 2012.
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18Review: M. J. Cresswell, Entities and Indices (review)Journal of Symbolic Logic 58 (2): 723-725. 1993.
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73Tensed ThoughtsMind and Language 10 (3): 226-249. 1995.: Consider mental states of the type that relate a subject to a content expressed by a sentence. I propose that some of these states necessarily include as constituents of their contents the states themselves. These reflexive states arise when one locates a content as belonging, for example, to one's own present or past. That content is then a tense% thought, ordering one's present state with respect to the content. Anaphoric cross‐reference between an event or state and a constituent of its own…Read more
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1Language and IdiolectsIn Ernie Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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140Expression, truth, predication, and context: Two perspectivesInternational Journal of Philosophical Studies 16 (4). 2008.In this article I contrast in two ways those conceptions of semantic theory deriving from Richard Montague's Intensional Logic (IL) and later developments with conceptions that stick pretty closely to a far weaker semantic apparatus for human first languages. IL is a higher-order language incorporating the simple theory of types. As such, it endows predicates with a reference. Its intensional features yield a conception of propositional identity (namely necessary equivalence) that has seemed to …Read more
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109Sententialism: The thesis that complement clauses refer to themselvesPhilosophical Issues 16 (1). 2006.
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Idiolects: TheirIn Ernie Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 140. 2005.
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