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752Reference Without ReferentsClarendon Press. 2005.Reference is a central topic in philosophy of language, and has been the main focus of discussion about how language relates to the world. R. M. Sainsbury sets out a new approach to the concept, which promises to bring to an end some long-standing debates in semantic theory. Lucid and accessible, and written with a minimum of technicality, Sainsbury's book also includes a useful historical survey. It will be of interest to those working in logic, mind, and metaphysics as well as essential readin…Read more
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941Intentionality without exoticaIn Robin Jeshion (ed.), New Essays on Singular Thought, . 2010.The paper argues that intensional phenomena can be explained without appealing to "exotic" entities: one that don't exist, are merely possible, or are essentially abstract.
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1Referring DescriptionsIn Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout (eds.), Descriptions and Beyond, Clarendon Press. 2004.
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91Projections and RelationsThe Monist 81 (1): 133-160. 1998.The paper evaluates Hume's alleged projectivism about causation and moral values.
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130Book review. Think. A compelling introduction to philosophy Simon Blackburn (review)Mind 110 (438): 430-432. 2001.
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5Meeting the Hare in her doubles : Causal belief and general beliefIn Marina Frasca-Spada & P. J. E. Kail (eds.), Impressions of Hume, Oxford University Press. 2005.Article
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75Vagueness and Semantic MethodologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (2): 475-482. 2015.
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597Scott Soames, philosophical analysis in the twentieth century: Volume 1: The dawn of analysis (review)Philosophical Studies 129 (3). 2006.The review praises the philosophical quality, but is less enthusiastic about the scholarship and historical accuracy.
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50Intensional Transitives and PresuppositionsCritica 40 (120): 129-139. 2008.My commentators point to respects in which the picture provided in Reference without Referents is incomplete. The picture provided no account of how sentences constructed from intensional verbs can be true when one of the referring expressions fails to refer. And it gave an incomplete, and possibly misleading, account of how to understand certain serious uses of fictional names, as in "Anna Karenina is more intelligent than Emma Bovary" and "Anna Karenina does not exist". In the present response…Read more
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326Fiction and FictionalismRoutledge. 2009.Are fictional characters such as Sherlock Holmes real? What can fiction tell us about the nature of truth and reality? In this excellent introduction to the problem of fictionalism R. M. Sainsbury covers the following key topics: what is fiction? realism about fictional objects, including the arguments that fictional objects are real but non-existent; real but non-factual; real but non-concrete the relationship between fictional characters and non-actual worlds fictional entities as abstract art…Read more
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RussellIn Ted Honderich (ed.), The Philosophers: Introducing Great Western Thinkers, Oxford University Press. 1999.
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2001Concepts without boundariesIn Rosanna Keefe & Peter Smith (eds.), Vagueness: A Reader, Mit Press. pp. 186-205. 1996.
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9Option negation and dialetheiasIn Graham Priest, Jc Beall & Bradley P. Armour-Garb (eds.), The Law of Non-Contradiction : New Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press. pp. 85--92. 2004.
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89Benevolence and evilAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 58 (2). 1980.This Article does not have an abstract
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43Tolerating VaguenessProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 89. 1989.R. M. Sainsbury; III*—Tolerating Vagueness, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 89, Issue 1, 1 June 1989, Pages 33–48, https://doi.org/10.1093/arist.
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10Semantic Theory and Grammatical StructureAristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 54 (1): 133-172. 1980.
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474'Of course there are fictional characters'Revue Internationale de Philosophie 262 (4): 615-40. 2012.There is no straightforward inference from there being fictional characters to any interesting form of realism. One reason is that “fictional” may be an intensional operator with wide scope, depriving the quantifier of its usual force. Another is that not all uses of “there are” are ontologically committing. A realist needs to show that neither of these phenomena are present in “There are fictional characters”. Other roads to realism run into difficulties when negotiating the role that presuppos…Read more
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12Indexicals and Reported SpeechIn T. J. Smiley & Thomas Baldwin (eds.), Studies in the Philosophy of Logic and Knowledge, Published For the British Academy By Oxford University Press. pp. 209. 2004.
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English speakers should use "I" to refer to themselvesIn Anthony Hatzimoysis (ed.), Self-Knowledge, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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1Philosophical LogicIn Dermot Moran (ed.), The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy, Abingdon, Routledge 2008: 347–81., . 2008.
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6Review of Simon Blackburn: Spreading the Word: Groundings in the Philosophy of Language (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 36 (2): 211-215. 1985.
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