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11Truth and the Theory of ContentIn Herman Parret & Jacques Bouveresse (eds.), Meaning and understanding, W. De Gruyter. pp. 204-222. 1981.
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9What Do Belief Ascrebers Really Mean? A Reply to Stephen SchifferPacific Philosophical Quarterly 77 (4): 404-423. 2017.Stephen Schiffer has recently claimed that the currently popular “hidden‐indexical” theory of belief reports is an implausible theory of such reports. His central argument for this claim is based on what he refers to as the “meaning‐intention” problem. In this paper, I claim that the meaning‐intention problem is powerless against the hidden‐indexical theory of belief reports. I further contend that the theory is in fact a plausible theory of such reports.
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7Deflationist Theories of Truth, Meaning, and ContentIn Bob Hale, Crispin Wright & Alexander Miller (eds.), A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Wiley. 2017.Every deflationist semantic theory has its inflationist correlate: this is the semantic theory the deflationist theory is designed to deflate. This chapter presents Radical Inflationism and Radical Deflationism as stipulatively defined theories, without regard to who might subscribe to them, or to one or another of their parts. Radical Deflationism is based on a view worked out over a number of important publications by Hartry Field. In other words, radical inflationist is on board with the view…Read more
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3III*—Intentionality and the Language of ThoughtProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 87 (1): 35-56. 1987.Stephen Schiffer; III*—Intentionality and the Language of Thought, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 87, Issue 1, 1 June 1987, Pages 35–56, https
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3VaguenessIn Michael Devitt & Richard Hanley (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language, Wiley-blackwell. 2006.This chapter contains sections titled: The Sorites Paradox Some Attempts at a Solution Happy‐and Unhappy‐Face Solutions Vagueness, Indeterminacy, and Partial Belief.
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2Descartes's Meditations: Critical Essays (edited book)Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. 1997.This collection of recent articles by leading scholars is designed to illuminate one of the greatest and most influential philosophical books of all time. It includes incisive commentary on every major theme and argument in the Meditations, and will be valuable not only to philosophers but to historians, theologians, literary scholars, and interested general readers
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2Does mentalese have a compositional semantics?In Barry M. Loewer (ed.), Meaning in Mind: Fodor and His Critics, Blackwell. 1991.
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1Propositions, What Are They Good For?In Richard Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 531-552. 2012.
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1Knowledge of meaningIn Alex Barber (ed.), Epistemology of language, Oxford University Press. 2003.
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1Extensionalist Semantics and Sententialist Theories of BeliefIn Ernest Lepore (ed.), New Directions in Semantics, Academic Press. 1987.
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1Propositional attitudes in direct-reference semanticsIn K. Jaszczolt (ed.), The Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports, Elsevier. pp. 14--30. 2000.
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1Functionalism and beliefIn Myles Brand & Robert M. Harnish (eds.), The Representation of Knowledge and Belief, University of Arizona Press. 1986.
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1Direct Reference: From Language to Thought (review)Linguistics and Philosophy 19 (1): 91-102. 1996.
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Fodor's characterIn Enrique Villanueva (ed.), Information, Semantics, and Epistemology, Blackwell. 1990.
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A Source of Paradox: Response to Paul HorwichIn Gary Ostertag (ed.), Meanings and Other Things: Themes From the Work of Stephen Schiffer, Oxford University Press. 2016.
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Philosophical and jurisprudential issues of vaguenessIn Geert Keil & Ralf Poscher (eds.), Vagueness and Law: Philosophical and Legal Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2016.