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Areas of Interests
Philosophy of Language, Metaphysics
Education
PhD 1995, MIT
Recent Courses Taught
- Spring 2010 Infinity
- Fall 2010 Context
- Spring 2011 Causation
- Fall 2011 Philosophy of Language
- Fall 2011 Convention
- Spring 2012 Early Modern Philosophy
- Spring 2012 Modality
Recent Publications
- ‘Against Logical Form.’ A Reappraisal of Davidson's Philosophy (G. Preyer ed.); forthcoming.
- ‘Verbs.’ The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language (G.Russell and D. Fara eds.); 2012.
- ‘The Case for Compositionality.’ The Oxford Handbook on Compositionality (W. Hinzen, et al. eds.); 2011.
- ‘Bare Quantifiers.’ Philosophical Review; 2011.
- ‘Tasks and Ultra-tasks.’ Magyar Filozófiai Szemle; 2010.
- ‘Specific, Yet Opaque.’ Logic, Language, and Meaning. (M. Aloni et al. eds.); 2010.
- ‘The Ontological Attitude.’ The Analytical Way. (T. Czarnecki et al. eds.); 2010.
- ‘The Determination of Content.’ Philosophical Studies ; 2010.
- ‘Structure and Conventions.’ Philosophical Studies; forthcoming.
- ‘Counting across Times.’ Philosophical Perspectives; 2007
- ‘The Distinction Between Semantics and Pragmatics.’ The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (E. LePore and B. Smith eds.), 2006
- ‘Sensitivity Training.’ Mind and Language, 2006.
- ‘The Loss of Uniqueness.’ Mind, 2005.
- ‘Sententialism and Berkeley’s Master Argument.’ Philosophocal Quarterly, 2005.
- ‘On the Progressive and the Perfective.’ Noûs, 2004.
- ‘On Qualification.’ Philosophical Perspectives, 2003.
- ‘Descriptions Without Uniqueness: A Reply to Abbott.’ Philosophical Studies, 2003.
- ‘Nominalism.’ The Oxford Handbook of Metaphysics (M. J. Loux and D. Zimmerman eds.), 2003.
- ‘Believing in Things.’ Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2003.
For a complete list of publications, see CV.
Works in Progress
- ‘Epistemic Comparativism.’ (with Jonathan Schaffer)
- ‘Modal with a Taste of the Deontic.’ (with Joshua Knobe)
- ‘Dyadic Truth.’
- ‘Major Parts of Speech.’
- On Predication.
- ‘Things in Progress’
- ‘Belief, More or Less’
- Review of Reference without Referents by M. Sainsbury for Mind.