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267Why We Still Need Knowledge of LanguageCroatian Journal of Philosophy 6 (3): 431-456. 2006.In his latest book, Michael Devitt rejects Chomsky’s mentalist conception of linguistics. The case against Chomsky is based on two principal claims. First, that we can separate the study of linguistic competence from the study of its outputs: only the latter belongs to linguistic inquiry. Second, Chomsky’s account of a speaker’s competence as consisiting in the mental representation of rules of a grammar for his language is mistaken. I shall argue, first, that Devitt fails to make a case for sep…Read more
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15Does science underwrite our folk psychologyIn William T. O'Donohue & Richard F. Kitchener (eds.), The philosophy of psychology, Sage Publications. pp. 256--264. 1996.
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1Taste, Philosophical PerspectivesIn Hal Pashler (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind, Sage Publications. 2009.
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450Publicity, externalism and inner statesIn Tomáš Marvan (ed.), What determines content?: the internalism/externalism dispute, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2006.The critic Cyril Connolly once pointed out that diarists don’t make novelists. He went on to describe the problem for the would-be writer. “Writing for oneself: no public. Writing for others: no privacy” (Cyril Connolly, Journal). This paper addresses Connolly's worry about the public ad private: how can we reconcile the inner and conscious dimension of speech with its outer and public dimension? For if what people mean by their words involves, or consists in, what they have in mind when they sp…Read more
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142Davidson, Interpretation and First‐Person Constraints on Meaning1International Journal of Philosophical Studies 14 (3): 385-406. 2006.International Journal of Philosophical Studies 0967-2559 (print)/1466-4542 (online) Original Article
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702What Remains of Our Knowledge of Language?: Reply to CollinsCroatian Journal of Philosophy 8 (22): 557-75. 2008.The new Chomskian orthodoxy denies that our linguistic competence gives us knowledge *of* a language, and that the representations in the language faculty are representations *of* anything. In reply, I have argued that through their intuitions speaker/hearers, (but not their language faculties) have knowledge of language, though not of any externally existing language. In order to count as knowledge, these intuitions must track linguistic facts represented in the language faculty. I defend this …Read more
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38Relativism, Disagreement and Predicates of Personal TasteIn François Récanati, Isidora Stojanovic & Neftalí Villanueva (eds.), Context Dependence, Perspective and Relativity, Mouton De Gruyter. pp. 195--225. 2010.Disagreements about what is delicious, what is funny, what is morally acceptable can lead to intractable disputes between parties holding opposing views of a given subject. How should we think of such disputes? Do they always amount to genuine disagreements? The answer will depend on how we understand disagreement and how we should think about the meaning and truth of statements in these areas of discourse. I shall consider cases of dispute and disagreement where relativism about truth appears t…Read more
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18L6 Philosophical and empirical approaches to languageIn Matthew C. Haug (ed.), Philosophical Methodology: The Armchair or the Laboratory?, Routledge. pp. 294. 2013.
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180Consciousness: An inner view of the outer worldJournal of Consciousness Studies 13 (7-8): 175-86. 2006.Right now my conscious experience is directed at part of the world. It takes in some aspects of things around me and not others. Some bits of the world occupy my attention, other worldly goings on condition or colour the character of my current perceptual experience. I experience buildings in view through the window, the clothes in the corner of the room, the colour of the walls, the plate with breads, the coffee mugs, the smell of fresh laundry, the muffled sounds of someone in the kitchen, the…Read more
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2108The Objectivity of Tastes and TastingIn Questions of Taste: the philosophy of wine, Oxford University Press. 2007.
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59Questions of Taste: the philosophy of wine (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2007.Is the taste of a wine in our minds or in the glass? Can knowledge make a difference to the pleasure a wine gives us? Do the elaborate descriptions of wines in terms of fruits or spices, their "suppleness" or "brawniness," really mean anything? Questions of Taste is the first book to examine the philosophical issues surrounding our experience and enjoyment of wine. Featuring lucid essays from philosophers, a linguist, a biochemist, a wine producer and a wine critic, these leading thinkers use th…Read more
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24Empathie et perception des valeursDialogue 51 (1): 119-127. 2012.ABSTRACT: Differences of evaluative judgments are often assumed to be a reason to prefer pluralism, relativism or subjectivism to objectivism, and this preference is even more pronounced in the case of judgements of taste. A comparison between perceptual and moral disagreements, however, enables us to understand that differences in judgments may be due to a difference in access to the situation or object, and not necessarily to a difference in value. The feeling of irresolvable differences that …Read more
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1285Speech Sounds and the Direct Meeting of MindsIn Matthew Nudds & Casey O'Callaghan (eds.), Sounds and Perception: New Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press Uk. 2009.
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44The Objectivity of Tastes and TastingIn Questions of Taste: the philosophy of wine, Oxford University Press. pp. 41. 2007.
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1The publicity of meaning and the interiority of mindIn Annalisa Coliva (ed.), Mind, meaning, and knowledge: themes from the philosophy of Crispin Wright, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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845Relativism and Predicates of Personal TasteIn François Récanati, Isidora Stojanovic & Neftalí Villanueva (eds.), Context Dependence, Perspective and Relativity, Mouton De Gruyter. 2010.
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43Frege and Chomsky: Sense and PsychologismIn Petr Kotatko & John Biro (eds.), Frege: Sense and Reference one Hundred Years later, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 25--46. 1995.
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79The Oxford Handbook to the Philosophy of Language (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2006.The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Ernie Lepore …Read more
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Tim Crane, ed., "The Contents of Experience" (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (2): 347. 1994.
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1003On Knowing One's Own LanguageIn C. Macdonald, Barry C. Smith & C. J. G. Wright (eds.), Knowing Our Own Minds: Essays in Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press. pp. 391--428. 1998.We rely on language to know the minds of others, but does language have a role to play in knowing our own minds? To suppose it does is to look for a connection between mastery of a language and the epistemic relation we bear to our inner lives. What could such a connection consist in? To explore this, I shall examine strategies for explaining self-knowledge in terms of the use we make of language to express and report our mental states. Success in these strategies will depend on the view we take…Read more
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52What Does Metacognition Do For Us?Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 89 (3): 727-735. 2014.
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133The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2005.The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Ernie Lepore a…Read more
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The Nature of Linguistic Reality: A Response to Devitt's 'Dodging'Croatian Journal of Philosophy. forthcoming.