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7Five Flies in the Ointment: Some Challenges for Traditional Semantic TheoryIn Richard Schantz (ed.), Prospects for Meaning, Walter De Gruyter. pp. 287-308. 2012.
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53Review of Robert Andrew Wilson: Cartesian Psychology and Physical Minds: Individualism and the Sciences of the Mind (review)British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 48 (1): 151-156. 1997.
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43Knowledge of Meaning: An Introduction to Semantic TheoryPhilosophical Review 106 (1): 122. 1997.To the best of my knowledge, no one in recent decades has written a book of this magnitude about the semantics of natural language. Certainly, nothing available today matches this volume in depth, precision, and coherence. The authors present classical and recent results of linguistic semantics within the framework of interpretative T-theories and defend the philosophical foundations of their approach by showing how it fits into the larger enterprise of cognitive linguistics. The book also inclu…Read more
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89Hope as a Primitive Mental StateRatio 28 (2): 207-222. 2015.We criticize attempts to define hope in terms of other psychological states and argue that hope is a primitive mental state whose nature can be illuminated by specifying key aspects of its functional profile
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249Indexical PredicatesMind and Language 24 (4): 467-493. 2009.We discuss the challenge to truth-conditional semantics presented by apparent shifts in extension of predicates such as ‘red’. We propose an explicit indexical semantics for ‘red’ and argue that our account is preferable to the alternatives on conceptual and empirical grounds.
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Truth and MeaningIn Ernest Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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18Consciousness, by W. G. Lycan (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 51 (1): 240-243. 1991.
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151The causal efficacy of contentPhilosophical Studies 63 (July): 1-30. 1991.Several philosophers have argued recently that semantic properties do play a causal role. 1 It is our view that none of these arguments are satisfactory. Our aim is to reveal some of the deficiencies of these arguments, and to reassess the question in our own way. In section 1, we shall explain in more detail what is involved in the pretheoretical idea of a causally efficacious property and so provide a fuller sense of the issue. In section 2 we shall discuss Fodor's and Kim's arguments that the…Read more
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24Commentary on Hanna Pickard, “The Purpose in Chronic Addiction”American Journal of Bioethics Neuroscience 3 (2): 63-64. 2012.
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81Two Theories of NamesRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 51 75-93. 2002.The aim of this paper is to assess the relative merits of two accounts of the semantics of proper names. The enterprise is of particular interest because the theories are very similar in fundamental respects. In particular, they can agree on three major features of names: names are rigid designators; different co-extensive names can have different cognitive significance; empty proper names can be meaningful. Neither theory by itself offers complete explanations of all three features. But each th…Read more
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32The Causal Inefficacy of ContentMind and Language 24 (1): 80-102. 2009.The paper begins with the assumption that psychological event tokens are identical to or constituted from physical events. It then articulates a familiar apparent problem concerning the causal role of psychological properties. If they do not reduce to physical properties, then either they must be epiphenomenal or any effects they cause must also be caused by physical properties, and hence be overdetermined. It then argues that both epiphenomenalism and over‐determinationism are prima facie perfe…Read more
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28Addiction and Choice: Rethinking the Relationship (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.Views on addiction are often polarised - either addiction is a matter of choice, or addicts simply can't help themselves. But perhaps addiction falls between the two? This book contains views from philosophy, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, and the law exploring this middle ground between free choice and no choice.
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111Two theories of namesMind and Language 16 (5). 2001.Two semantic theories of proper names are explained and assessed. The theories are Burge’s treatment of proper names as complex demonstratives and Larson and Segal’s quasi-descriptivist account of names. The two theories are evaluated for empirical plausibility. Data from deficits, processing models, developmental studies and syntax are all discussed. It is concluded that neither theory is fully confirmed or refuted by the data, but that Larson and Segal’s theory has more empirical plausibility
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663On a unitary semantical analysis for definite and indefinite descriptionsIn Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout (eds.), Descriptions and beyond, Oxford University Press. pp. 420-437. 2004.
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The philosophy of psychologyIn Philosophy 2: Further Through the Subject, Oxford University Press. 1998.
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192Keep making senseSynthese 170 (2): 275-287. 2009.In a number works Jerry Fodor has defended a reductive, causal and referential theory of cognitive content. I argue against this, defending a quasi-Fregean notion of cognitive content, and arguing also that the cognitive content of non-singular concepts is narrow, rather than wide.
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45Content and Computation: Chasing the Arrows A Critical Notice of Jerry Fodor's The Elm and the ExpertMind and Language 12 (3-4): 490-501. 1997.
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Please allow me to recapitulate some territory that will be familiar to most readers. Here is how the problem of mental causation has typically been set up since shortly after the onset of non-reductive physicalism. It is now widely assumed that the realm of the physical is causally closed. This means that the probability of any event’s occurring is fully determined by physical causes, and physical causes alone. There is no space in the physical causal nexus for any non-physical event to exert a…Read more
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22Interpreting Davidson (edited book)Center for the Study of Language and Inf. 2001.Donald Davidson is, arguably, the most important philosopher of mind and language in recent decades. His articulation of the position he called "anomalous monism" and his ideas for unifying the general theory of linguistic meaning with semantics for natural language both set new agendas in the field. _Interpreting Davidson_ collects original essays on his work by some of his leading contemporaries, with Davidson himself contributing a reply to each and an original paper of his own
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128Reference, causal powers, externalist intuitions, and unicornsIn Richard Schantz (ed.), The Externalist Challenge, De Gruyter. pp. 329. 2004.In this chapter, I will compare and contrast singular concepts with what I call
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63IntentionalityIn Frank Jackson & Michael Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Philosophy, Oxford University Press. 2005.Article
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37VI*—In the Mood for a Semantic TheoryProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 91 (1): 103-118. 1991.Gabriel Segal; VI*—In the Mood for a Semantic Theory, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 91, Issue 1, 1 June 1991, Pages 103–118, https://doi.org/1.
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O jednorodnej analizie semantycznej deskrypcji określonych i nieokreślonych (tłum. Filip Kawczyński)Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 75. 2010.