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60Vagaries about VaguenessIn Richard Dietz & Sebastiano Moruzzi (eds.), Cuts and Clouds: Vaguenesss, its Nature and its Logic, Oxford University Press. 2010.
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60Content, Cognition, and Communication: Philosophical Papers II (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2007.Nathan Salmon presents a selection of nineteen of his essays from the early 1980s to 2006, on a set of closely connected topics central to analytic philosophy. The book is divided into four thematic sections, on direct reference, apriority, belief, and the distinction between semantics and pragmatics. The volume concludes with four essays about the distinction between meaning and use, or more generally, the distinction between semantics and pragmatics.
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60Constraint with RestraintIn Gary Ostertag (ed.), Meanings and Other Things: Themes From the Work of Stephen Schiffer, Oxford University Press. 2016.
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60Fiction, Myth, and RealityIn Alan Berger (ed.), Saul Kripke, Cambridge University Press. pp. 49-77. 2011.
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59From Time to TimeIn Shyam Wuppuluri & Giancarlo Ghirardi (eds.), Space, Time and Limits of Human Understanding, Springer. pp. 61-75. 2017.The topic is time travel of the sort depicted in H. G. Wells’ classic novel, The Time Machine—Wellsian time travel. The range of proper applicability of the concept of Wellsian time travel is investigated. The results of this investigation are applied to provide a new argument against the metaphysical possibility of time travel in absolute time. Alternatively, the argument is against the possibility of Wellsian time travel relative to a single temporal frame of reference. The argument leaves ope…Read more
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58TemporalityIn William Bright (ed.), Oxford International Encyclopedia of Linguistics, Oxford University Press. 1990.
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57Quantifying into the unquantifiable: the life and work of David KaplanIn Joseph Almog & Paolo Leonardi (eds.), The philosophy of David Kaplan, Oxford University Press. pp. 25. 2010.
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56Introduction to Sense and ReferenceIn Robert M. Harnish (ed.), Basic Topics in the Philosophy of Language, Pearson College Division. pp. 99-129. 1994.
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54A Note on Kripke's Puzzle about BeliefIn Alan Berger (ed.), Saul Kripke, Cambridge University Press. pp. 235-252. 2011.
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53A Father's MessageIn _Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning: Philosophical Papers I_, Oxford University Press. 2005.
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53Points, complexes, complex points, and a yachtIn Nicholas Griffin & Dale Jacquette (eds.), Russell Vs. Meinong: The Legacy of "on Denoting", Routledge. 2009.
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32Reference and information content: names and descriptionsIn Dov M. Gabbay & Franz Guenthner (eds.), Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 409--461. 1983.
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6Foreword to Matthew Davidson, ed., On Sense and Direct ReferenceIn Matthew Davidson (ed.), On Sense and Direct Reference, Mcgraw-hill. 2007.
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4Reference and EssencePrinceton University Press. 1981.Considered a classic in the philosophy of language movement known variously as the New Theory of Reference or the Direct-Reference Theory, as well as in the metaphysics of modal essentialism that is related to this philosophy of language. This award-winning book is based on the author’s doctoral dissertation.
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1Essentialism in Current Theories of ReferenceDissertation, University of California, Los Angeles. 1979.This 1979 doctoral dissertation was the basis for the author’s 1981 book, /Reference and Essence/ (Princeton University Press and Basil Blackwell). The dissertation was published by University Microfilms International (Ann Arbor, Michigan: 1980).
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Singular TermsIn Hans Burkhardt & Barry Smith (eds.), Handbook of metaphysics and ontology, Philosophia Verlag. pp. 835-837. 1991.
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Frege's Puzzle (excerpts 1)In Robert M. Harnish (ed.), Basic Topics in the Philosophy of Language, Pearson College Division. pp. 447-489. 1994.
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An alternative to the classical Stalnaker-Lewis account of subjunctive conditionals is outlined. A distinction is drawn between a basic notion of “wouldness” and a more full-bloodedly modal variant, each with its own logic. Previous philosophers have challenged the alleged vacuity of counterpossibles using logico-mathematically impossible worlds. Here the vacuity thesis as well as other orthodox alleged logical principles are challenged instead through consideration of a logico-mathematically po…Read more
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Reference and Essence, Korean translationHankook Publishing Company. 2000.Korean translation of the 1st edition of Nathan Salmon, _Reference and Essence_.
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This expanded version of the author’s autobiographical “My Philosophical Education” is available from the author on request.
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Frege's Puzzle (excerpts 2)In Darragh Byrne & Max Kölbel (eds.), Arguing about language, Routledge. pp. 56-71. 2010.
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Wie man ein Millianer wirdIn Mark Textor (ed.), _Neue Theorien der Referenz_, Mentis. pp. 38-47. 2004.German translation of Nathan Salmon, "How to Become a Millian Heir"
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The debate over whether the basic principles of Frege's philosophy of semantics committed him to the hierarchy of indirect senses is adjudicated. It is demonstrated by means of a simple device that Frege was indeed committed to the hierarchy.
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Kripke, Saul AaronIn Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy (2nd Edition), Cambridge University Press. pp. 476. 1999.
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From Frege's Puzzle (excerpts 3) (6th ed.)In A. P. Martinich & David Sosa (eds.), The Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. pp. 86-102. 2013.
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Die Krux von Freges RätselIn Mark Textor (ed.), _Neue Theorien der Referenz_, Mentis. pp. 60-71. 2004.German translation of Nathan Salmon, "The Crux of Frege's Puzzle"
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Reference: Names, Descriptions, and VariablesIn Handbuch Sprachphilosophie: Volume 2, Walter De Gruyter & Co. pp. 1123-1152. 1996.
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