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101The Good, the Bad, and the UglyIn Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout (eds.), Descriptions and beyond, Oxford University Press. pp. 230--260. 2004.
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100Naming Names: A Deep Dive into Saul Kripke’s PhilosophySimply Charly. 2023.Charles Carlini interviews Nathan Salmón about the philosophical work of his mentor and friend, the late Saul Kripke, one of the foremost philosophers of the 20th Century.
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99Fregean Theory and the Four Worlds Paradox: A Reply to David overPhilosophical Books 25 (1): 7-11. 1984.
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93Propositions and Attitudes (edited book)Oxford University Press. 1988.The concept of a proposition is important in several areas of philosophy and central to the philosophy of language. This collection of readings investigates many different philosophical issues concerning the nature of propositions and the ways they have been regarded through the years. Reflecting both the history of the topic and the range of contemporary views, the book includes articles from Bertrand Russell, Gottlob Frege, the Russell-Frege Correspondence, Alonzo Church, David Kaplan, John Pe…Read more
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93À Propos de Pierre, Does He…or Doesn’t He?In Ernest Lepore & David Sosa (eds.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, 3, Oxford University Press. pp. 176-181. 2023.In Frege’s Puzzle (1986), Salmon analyzed ‘a withholds believing p’ in terms of a ternary relation BEL of x believing a proposition p under a guise g. The proposed analysis is the following: There is a proposition guise g such that a grasps p by means of g but a does not stand in BEL to p and g. Sean Crawford has made a proposal for Millians to evade propositional guises through second-order belief. Specifically, in effect, Crawford’s proposes to analyze the crucial notion of withheld belief ins…Read more
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92Interview with Nathan Salmon, Univeristy of California, Santa BarbaraYale Philosophy Review 2008 (4): 78-90. 2008.
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91How Things Have to BeIn Duško Prelević & Anand Vaidya (eds.), Epistemology of Modality and Philosophical Methodology, Routledge. pp. 128-149. 2023.Penelope Mackie and Scott Soames argue, contrary to my Reference and Essence (R&E), that Hilary Putnam was correct that the direct-reference theory of natural-kind terms, taken in conjunction with empirical or otherwise uncontroversial premises, yields non-trivial essentialism, such as the conclusion that water is essentially two-parts hydrogen, one-part oxygen. A controversial distinction is drawn between rigid and non-rigid general terms. A new criterion for general-term rigidity is proposed, …Read more
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89Cognition and RecognitionIntercultural Pragmatics 15 (2): 213-235. 2018.Expressions are synonymous if they have the same semantic content. Complex expressions are synonymously isomorphic in Alonzo Church’s sense if one is obtainable from the other by a sequence of alphabetic changes of bound variables or replacements of component expressions by syntactically simple synonyms. Synonymous isomorphism provides a very strict criterion for synonymy of sentences. Several eminent philosophers of language hold that synonymous isomorphism is not strict enough. These philosoph…Read more
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81Personal Identity: What’s the Problem?In _Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophical Papers I_, Oxford University Press. pp. 192-225. 2005.
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78Effective ProceduresPhilosophies 8 (2): 27. 2023.This is a non-technical version of "The Decision Problem for Effective Procedures." The “somewhat vague, intuitive” notion from computability theory of an effective procedure (method) or algorithm can be fairly precisely defined, even if it does not have a purely mathematical definition—and even if (as many have asserted) for that reason, the Church–Turing thesis (that the effectively calculable functions on natural numbers are exactly the general recursive functions), cannot be proved. However,…Read more
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77Mythical ObjectsIn Joseph Keim Campbell, Michael O'Rourke & David Shier (eds.), Meaning and Truth: Investigations in Philosophical Semantics, Seven Bridges Press. pp. 105-123. 2002.
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77Three Perspectives on Quantifying InIn Robin Jeshion (ed.), New Essays on Singular Thought, Oxford University Press. pp. 64. 2010.
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77Tense and Singular PropositionsIn Joseph Almog, John Perry & Howard Wettstein (eds.), Themes From Kaplan, Oxford University Press. pp. 331--392. 1989.
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75Introduction to Propositions and AttitudesIn Nathan Salmon & Scott Soames (eds.), _Propositions and Attitudes_, Oxford University Press. pp. 1-15. 1988.
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73The Very Possibility of Language: A Sermon on the Consequences of Missing ChurchIn Alonzo Church, C. Anthony Anderson & Michael Zelëny (eds.), Logic, meaning, and computation: essays in memory of Alonzo Church, Kluwer Academic Publishers. 2001.
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70Two Conceptions of SemanticsIn Zoltan Gendler Szabo (ed.), Semantics Versus Pragmatics, Oxford University Press. pp. 317-328. 2005.
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68Tense and IntensionIn Aleksandar Jokić & Quentin Smith (eds.), Time, Tense, and Reference, Mit Press. pp. 107-154. 2003.
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68Puzzles about IntensionalityIn Dale Jacquette (ed.), A Companion to Philosophical Logic, Blackwell. 2006.
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67The Philosopher's Stone and Other Mythical ObjectsIn Stuart Brock & Anthony Everett (eds.), Fictional Objects, Oxford University Press. 2015.
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66Proper Names and DescriptionsIn John Corcoran (ed.), Encyclopedia of Philosophy. 2nd edition, Macmillan. 2006.
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65A Millian Heir Rejects the Wages of SinnIn C. A. Anderson & J. Owens (eds.), Propositional Attitudes: The Role of Content in Logic, Language, and Mind, Csli Publications. pp. 215-247. 1990.
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65Semantically Empty GesturesIn Keith Allan, Jay David Atlas, Brian E. Butler, Alessandro Capone, Marco Carapezza, Valentina Cuccio, Denis Delfitto, Michael Devitt, Graeme Forbes, Alessandra Giorgi, Neal R. Norrick, Nathan Salmon, Gunter Senft, Alberto Voltolini & Richard Warner (eds.), Further Advances in Pragmatics and Philosophy: Part 1 From Theory to Practice, Springer Verlag. pp. 3-24. 2018.Frege held that the bare demonstrative ‘that’ is incomplete, and that it is the word together with a gesture that serves as the designating expression, and likewise that it is the word ‘yesterday’ together with the time of utterance that designates the relevant day. David Kaplan’s original theory of indexicals holds that Frege’s supplementation thesis is correct about demonstratives but incorrect about ‘yesterday’. Kaplan’s account of demonstratives deviates from Frege’s in treating supplemented…Read more
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64Naming and Non-necessityIn Andrea Bianchi (ed.), Language and Reality from a Naturalistic Perspective, Springer. pp. 237-248. 2020.Kripke’s examples of allegedly contingent a priori sentences include ‘Stick S is exactly one meter long’, where the reference of ‘meter’ is fixed by the description ‘the length of stick S’. In response to skepticism concerning apriority Kripke replaced the meter sentence with a more sophisticated variant, arguing that the modified example is more immune to such skepticism. The case for apriority is examined. A distinction is drawn between apriority and a broader notion, “qua-priority,” of a trut…Read more
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62Modal Logic Kalish-and-Montague StyleIn _Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophical Papers I_, Oxford University Press. pp. 111-118. 2005.
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