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65A Sceptical Guide to Meaning and Rules: Defending Kripke's WittgensteinPhilosophical Quarterly 57 (229): 688-690. 2007.
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203Intuitions, Externalism, and Conceptual AnalysisStudia Philosophica Estonica 2 (2): 81-93. 2009.Semantic externalism about a class of expressions is often thought to make conceptual analysis about members of that class impossible. In particular, since externalism about natural kind terms makes the essences of natural kinds empirically discoverable, it seems that mere reflection on one's natural kind concept will not be able to tell one anything substantial about what it is for something to fall under one's natural kind concepts. Many hold the further view that one cannot even know anything…Read more
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11Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Language (edited book)Bloomsbury Academic. 2015.The first balanced and detailed study of the central methodological issues in the philosophy of language.
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1615Meta-Externalism vs Meta-Internalism in the Study of ReferenceAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 91 (3): 475-500. 2013.We distinguish and discuss two different accounts of the subject matter of theories of reference, meta-externalism and meta-internalism. We argue that a form of the meta- internalist view, “moderate meta-internalism”, is the most plausible account of the subject matter of theories of reference. In the second part of the paper we explain how this account also helps to answer the questions of what kind of concept reference is, and what role intuitions have in the study of the reference relation.
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Reference and IntuitionsIn Heimir Geirsson & Stephen Biggs (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference, Routledge. pp. 551-559. 2021.
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179A defence of the conditional analysis of phenomenal conceptsPhilosophical Studies 139 (1). 2008.A recent strategy for defending physicalism about the mind against the zombie argument relies on the so-called conditional analysis of phenomenal concepts. According to this analysis, what kinds of states our phenomenal concepts refer to depends crucially on whether the actual world is merely physical or not. John Hawthorne, David Braddon-Mitchell and Robert Stalnaker have claimed, independently, that this analysis explains the conceivability of zombies in a way consistent with physicalism, thus…Read more
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299Intuitions in Philosophical SemanticsErkenntnis 80 (3): 617-641. 2015.We argue that the term “intuition”, as it is used in metaphilosophy, is ambiguous between at least four different senses. In philosophy of language, the relevant “intuitions” are either the outputs of our competence to interpret and produce linguistic expressions, or the speakers’ or hearers’ own reports of these outputs. The semantic facts that philosophers of language are interested in are determined by the outputs of our competence. Hence, philosophers of language should be interested in inve…Read more
Areas of Specialization
Theories of Reference |
The Basis of Meaning |
Rigid Designation |
Reference Failure |
Realism and Anti-Realism |
Areas of Interest
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Theories of Reference |
Aspects of Reference |
The Basis of Meaning |
Rigid Designation |
Reference Failure |
Realism and Anti-Realism |