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29Knowing Our Own Minds: Essays in Self-KnowledgeOxford University Press. 1998.Self-knowledge is the focus of considerable attention from philosophers: Knowing Our Own Minds gives a much-needed overview of current work on the subject, bringing together new essays by leading figures. Knowledge of one's own sensations, desires, intentions, thoughts, beliefs, and other attitudes is characteristically different from other kinds of knowledge: it has greater immediacy, authority, and salience. The contributors examine philosophical questions raised by the distinctive character…Read more
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Quine and Chomsky on the Ins and Outs of LanguageIn Gilbert Harman & Ernest LePore (eds.), A Companion to W. V. O. Quine, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.
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5Quine and Chomsky on the Ins and Outs of LanguageIn Ernie Lepore & Gilbert Harman (eds.), A Companion to W. V. O. Quine, Wiley-blackwell. 2013.Barry C. Smith: Quine and Chomsky on the Ins and Outs of Language: W.V.O. Quine's thinking has had a profound and lasting influence on the philosophy of language despite the fact that he remained firmly at odds with the science of linguistics for over thirty years. His rejection of the cognitive revolution ushered in by Noam Chomsky's work on language was rooted in a deeply held philosophical conviction that language was a publicly observable medium. However, Quine's advocacy of naturalized epis…Read more
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15Not Just Philosophy of Neuroscience but Philosophy and NeuroscienceThe Philosophers' Magazine 83 94-101. 2018.
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Publicity, externalism and inner statesIn Tomáš Marvan (ed.), What determines content?: the internalism/externalism dispute, Cambridge Scholars Press. 2006.
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A moment of captureIn Damien Freeman & Derek Matravers (eds.), Figuring Out Figurative Art: Contemporary Philosophers on Contemporary Paintings, Acumen Publishing. 2014.
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398What we mean, what we think we mean, and how language can surprise usIn B. Soria & E. Romero (eds.), Explicit Communication: Robyn Carston's Pragmatics, Palgrave. 2007.In uttering a sentence we are often take to assert more than its literal meaning - though sometimes we assert less. This phenomenon is taken by many to show that what is said or asserted by a speaker on an occasion is a contextually enriched or developed version of the semantic content of the words uttered. I argue that we can resist this conclusion by recognizing that what we think we are asserting, or take others to assert, involves selective attention to just one of the ways a sentence could …Read more
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549The Chemical SensesIn Mohan Matthen (ed.), The Oxford Handbook to Philosophy of Perception. pp. 314-353. 2015.Long-standing neglect of the chemical senses in the philosophy of perception is due, mostly, to their being regarded as ‘lower’ senses. Smell, taste, and chemically irritated touch are thought to produce mere bodily sensations. However, empirically informed theories of perception can show how these senses lead to perception of objective properties, and why they cannot be treated as special cases of perception modelled on vision. The senses of taste, touch, and smell also combine to create unifie…Read more
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122Understanding LanguageProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 92. 1992.Barry C. Smith; VI*—Understanding Language, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 92, Issue 1, 1 June 1992, Pages 109–142, https://doi.org/10.1093/ari.
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The nature of sensory experience: the case of taste and tastingPhenomenology and Mind 4 212--227. 2013.
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29Predicates of Taste and Relativism about TruthProtoSociology 31 138-159. 2014.Is relativism about truth ever a coherent doctrine? Some people have argued that an answer to this question depends on whether there can be cases of genuine disagreement where those who disagree hold conflicting beliefs towards the same proposition and yet are each entitled to say that what they believe is true. These have been called cases of faultless disagreement and are often explored by considering the case of disagreements about taste. However, this is not the right way to formulate the re…Read more
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752Why We Still Need Knowledge of LanguageCroatian Journal of Philosophy 6 (3): 431-456. 2006.In his latest book, Michael Devitt rejects Chomsky’s mentalist conception of linguistics. The case against Chomsky is based on two principal claims. First, that we can separate the study of linguistic competence from the study of its outputs: only the latter belongs to linguistic inquiry. Second, Chomsky’s account of a speaker’s competence as consisiting in the mental representation of rules of a grammar for his language is mistaken. I shall argue, first, that Devitt fails to make a case for sep…Read more
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15Does science underwrite our folk psychologyIn William T. O'Donohue & Richard F. Kitchener (eds.), The Philosophy of Psychology, Sage Publications. pp. 256--264. 1996.
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1Taste, Philosophical PerspectivesIn Hal Pashler (ed.), Encyclopedia of the Mind, Sage Publications. 2009.
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43The Objectivity of Tastes and TastingIn Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of Wine, Oxford University Press. pp. 41. 2007.
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1The publicity of meaning and the interiority of mindIn Annalisa Coliva (ed.), Mind, meaning, and knowledge: themes from the philosophy of Crispin Wright, Oxford University Press. 2012.
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818Relativism and Predicates of Personal TasteIn Francois Recanati, Isidora Stojanovic & Neftali Villanueva (eds.), Context-depenece, Perspective and Relativity, De Gruyer Mouton. 2010.
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41Frege and Chomsky: Sense and PsychologismIn Petr Kotatko & John Biro (eds.), Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 25--46. 1995.
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594The Oxford Handbook to the Philosophy of Language (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2006.The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Ernie Lepore …Read more
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Tim Crane, ed., "The Contents of Experience" (review)International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2 (2): 347. 1994.
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967On Knowing One's Own LanguageIn Crispin Wright, Barry C. Smith & Cynthia Macdonald (eds.), Knowing Our Own Minds, Oxford University Press. pp. 391--428. 1998.We rely on language to know the minds of others, but does language have a role to play in knowing our own minds? To suppose it does is to look for a connection between mastery of a language and the epistemic relation we bear to our inner lives. What could such a connection consist in? To explore this, I shall examine strategies for explaining self-knowledge in terms of the use we make of language to express and report our mental states. Success in these strategies will depend on the view we take…Read more
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49What Does Metacognition Do For Us?Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 89 (3): 727-735. 2014.