•  3
    Introduction: Motivations for Relativism
    In Manuel García-Carpintero & Max Kölbel (eds.), Relative Truth, Oxford University Press. pp. 1--38. 2008.
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    How to spell out genuine relativism and how to defend indexical relativism
    International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (2). 2007.
    It was the explicit aim of my paper ‘Indexical Relativism versus Genuine Relativism’ to ‘characterize and compare’ (p. 297) two different forms of relativism. One form, exemplified by Harman’s and Dreier’s moral relativism (Harman, 1975 and Dreier, 1990), involves the claim that certain sentences express different propositions in different contexts of utterance, much like indexical sentences – hence the name ‘indexical relativism’. The other form involves the claim that the truth-value of certai…Read more
  •  131
    Review of Ruling Passions by Simon Blackburn (review)
    Mind 111 (442). 2002.
    This is a book review of Simon Blackburn's "Ruling Passions: A Theory of Practical Reasoning"
  •  5
    Conversational Score, Assertion, and Testimony
    In Jessica Brown & Herman Cappelen (eds.), Assertion: New Philosophical Essays, Oxford University Press. pp. 49--77. 2011.
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    An argument for relativism
    Think 5 (14): 51-62. 2007.
    The question is philosophy' equivalent of a trashy horror movie. It sounds radical and deep. One is excited by the enormity of the insight one would gain were one to find out that indeed, everything is relative. Max Ksensible’ form of relativism supported by a straightforward argument
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    Aesthetic judge-dependence and expertise
    Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 59 (6): 589-617. 2016.
    This paper expounds and defends a judge-dependence account of aesthetic concepts, where aesthetic concepts are construed widely, to include for example both concepts of personal taste and more narrowly aesthetic concepts. According to such an account, it can depend on personal features of a judge whether it is correct for that judge to apply an aesthetic concept to a given object. After introducing and motivating the account, the article sets out to explain how some aesthetic questions can seem …Read more
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    The Continuum companion to the philosophy of language (edited book)
    with Manuel García-Carpintero
    Continuum International. 2012.
    The Continuum Companion to Philosophy of Language offers the definitive guide to contemporary philosophy of language. The book covers all the fundamental questions asked by the philosophy of language - areas that have continued to attract interest historically as well as topics that have emerged more recently as active areas of research. Ten specially commissioned essays from an international team of experts reveal where important work continues to be done in the area and, most valuably, the exc…Read more
  •  121
    Agreement and Communication
    Erkenntnis 79 (S1): 101-120. 2014.
    I distinguish two notions of agreement in belief: believing the same content versus having beliefs that necessarily coincide/diverge in normative status. The second notion of agreement,, is clearly significant for the communication of beliefs amongst thinkers. Thus there would seem to be some prima facie advantage to choosing the conception of content operative in in such a way that the normative status of beliefs supervenes on their content, and this seems to be the prevailing assumption of man…Read more
  •  166
    A Criterion for Objectivity
    Theoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 15 (2): 209-228. 2000.
    There are many reasons to assume that the contents expressible by declarative sentences are generally truth-evaluable. This assumption of global truth-evaluability, however, appears to conflict with the view that the contents of some sentences do not admit of truth or falsehood for lack of objectivity of their subject matter. Could there be a notion of truth on which the truth-evaluability of a content does not rule out the non-objectivity of its subject matter?In this paper, I discuss Crispin W…Read more
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    Arguing about language (edited book)
    Routledge. 2010.
    Arguing About Language presents a comprehensive selection of key readings on fundamental issues in the philosophy of language. It offers a fresh and exciting introduction to the subject, addressing both perennial problems and emerging topics. Classic readings from Frege, Russell, Kripke, Chomsky, Quine, Grice, Lewis and Davidson appear alongside more recent pieces by philosophers or linguists such as Robyn Carston, Delia Graff Fara, Frank Jackson, Ernie Lepore & Jerry Fodor, Nathan Salmon, Zoltá…Read more