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4Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, 3 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2023.Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. Since that 'linguistic turn' much of the most important work in philosophy has related to language. But until now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers. Anyone wanting to know what's happening in philosophy of language could start with these volumes.
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8Truth within ReasonMidwest Studies in Philosophy 47 227-236. 2023.It can be seen as a mark against a belief that its causal history be disconnected from the truth. And that idea fits well with the view that discovering that a belief’s causal history is so disconnected itself diminishes its normative status. But this latter view can also be held independently: believing that your belief was influenced by irrelevant factors might be seen as problematic even should it not be seen as in general a mark against a belief that it be caused in one way or another. I pur…Read more
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32Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language Volume 2 (edited book)Oxford Studies in Philosophy O. 2021.Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers.
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24Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.Philosophy of language has been at the centre of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. Since that 'linguistic turn' much of the most important work in philosophy has related to language. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers. Anyone wanting to know what's happening in philosophy of language could start with these volumes.
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6Saul Kripke (1940–)In A. P. Martinich & David Sosa (eds.), A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, Blackwell. 2001.This chapter contains sections titled: Life Modal logic Meaning Necessity, a priority, the mind‐body problem, and essentialism Truth Substitutional quantification Wittgenstein on following a rule.
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25Primacy of Metaphysics, by Christopher PeacockeMind 131 (524): 1364-1375. 2021.Peacocke introduces The Primacy of Metaphysics with the apt observation that ‘[t]here can be few issues as fundamental as the relation between the metaphysics o.
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96A Counter‐ReformationPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research 104 (1): 250-255. 2022.Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 104, Issue 1, Page 250-255, January 2022.
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24Belief beyond groupsAsian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1): 1-9. 2023.While groups can do many things, and are subject to important sorts of assessment, persons can exhibit some normative statuses that no group can realize. I defend an anti-realist position about group belief (and group agency, generally) and suggest that it can still, in a way, sympathetically accommodate the range of cases discussed by Lackey in her groundbreaking The Epistemology of Groups. The distinctive normative character of belief—its integration, in consciousness, into a framework of rati…Read more
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What is it like to be a group?In Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller & Jeffrey Paul (eds.), Utilitarianism: the aggregation question, Cambridge University Press. 2009.
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18Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers.
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293Standard BearersEpisteme 14 (3): 329-341. 2017.In both ethics and epistemology an important question is whether justification is a fully internal or a partly external matter. In view of analogies between relevant considerations in each area, I recommend distinguishing, as basic and independent subjects of normative status, (i) people and (ii) what they do. Evaluations of subjects, on one hand, and of their beliefs and actions, on the other, are less intimately related than is presupposed. This helps resolve internalism/externalism controvers…Read more
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Sellars',,Linguistizismus". Ein Kommentar zu BrandomDeutsche Zeitschrift für Philosophie 48 (4): 615-620. 2000.
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170Slouching Towards Dualism (review)Revue Internationale de Philosophie 55 (216): 257-263. 2001.Searle may protest too much his anti-dualism. It may be that what needs reconsideration is not so much the traditional opposition between material and mental as the supposed opposition between property dualism and our contemporary scientific world view. Searle at one points notes that "[w]hen we come to the proposition that reality is physical, we come to what is perhaps the crux of the whole discussion." I agree.
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The inference that leaves something to chanceIn Sanford Goldberg (ed.), Internalism and externalism in semantics and epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 219-234. 2007.
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56T.M. Scanlon, What We Owe to Each Other (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1998) A Big, Good ThingNoûs 38 (2): 359-377. 2004.
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171What is it like to be a group?Social Philosophy and Policy 26 (1): 212-226. 2009.Consequentialist and Kantian theories differ over the ethical relevance of consequences of actions. I investigate how they might differ too over the relevance of what actions are consequence of. Focusing on the case of group action and collective responsibility, I argue that there's a kind of analog to the problem of aggregating the value of consequencesthat Kantian theories will not confront and consequentialist theories will. The issue provides a useful way to characterize a deep difference be…Read more
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3Pathetic ethicsIn Brian Leiter (ed.), Objectivity in Law and Morals, Cambridge University Press. pp. 287--329. 2001.
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250The Counterexample FallacyMind 120 (480): 1143-1158. 2011.Manley and Wasserman (2008) join the chorus of opposition to the possibility of conditional analysis of dispositions. But that score cannot be settled without more careful attention to the implicit philosophical methodology. Some of the opposition to such an analysis badly overestimates the effect of counterexamples, as if the Gettier example were sufficient to refute the possibility of conjunctive analysis of knowledge. A general objection to a form of analysis must satisfy a number of constrai…Read more
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557The Import of the Puzzle About BeliefPhilosophical Review 105 (3): 373-402. 1996.Relocating Kripke's puzzle about belief, this paper investigates i) in what the puzzle consists, exactly; ii) the method used in its construction; and iii) relations between meaning and rationality. Essential to Kripke's puzzle is a normative notion of contradictory belief. Different positions about the meaning of names yield different views of what constitutes the attribution of contradictory belief; and Kripke's puzzle unwittingly _imports a Millian assumption. Accordingly, the puzzle about be…Read more
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48RigidityIn Ernest Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. 2006.For an expression to be rigid means that it refers to one and the same thing with respect to any possible situation. But how is this in turn to be understood? An example will help us work through the definition. Take a word like ‘Aristotle.’ That word is a proper name; and proper names are a clear case of a type of word that refers. ‘Aristotle’ refers to a particular person, the last great philosopher of antiquity; in general, a name refers to the thing of which it is the name. To continue worki…Read more