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1Referring DescriptionsIn Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout (eds.), Descriptions and beyond, Oxford University Press. 2004.
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131Book review. Think. A compelling introduction to philosophy Simon Blackburn (review)Mind 110 (438): 430-432. 2001.
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92Projections and RelationsThe Monist 81 (1): 133-160. 1998.The paper evaluates Hume's alleged projectivism about causation and moral values.
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87Vagueness and Semantic MethodologyPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 90 (2): 475-482. 2015.
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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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613Scott 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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53Intensional 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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333Fiction 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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