Selected Publications

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Books

Facing Facts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2002). View

Descriptions. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, (1990). View

Edited Volumes

Mind (Special Issue) . Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2005). View

Articles

“Silent Reference” In G. Ostertag (ed.) Meanings and Other Things: Essays in Honor of Stephen Schiffer. Oxford University Press, in press. Final version, of 6/29/2016. Please contact for copy.

“Term Limits Revisited”. Philosophical Perspectives, 22, 1 (2008), pp. 375-442.

“Heavy Hands, Magic, and Scene-Reading Traps”, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy vol 3, no. 2 (2007), pp. 77-132.

“On Location”. In Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry, M. O’Rourke & C. Washington (ed.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, (2007) pp. 251–393.

“Pronouns and Anaphora”. In The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language, M. Devitt and R. Hanley (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell, (2006) pp. 335-373.

“Descriptions” (co-authored with Peter Ludlow). In The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language, M. Devitt and R. Hanley (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell, (2006) pp. 288-313.

“Pragmatism and Binding”. In Semantics versus Pragmatics, Zoltán Gendler Szabó (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2005) pp. 165-285.

“Gramatická Forma, Logická Forma a Neúplné Symboly”, Organon F 12, 3, (2005), pp. 294-334.

“A Century Later”, Mind 114, (2005), pp. 809-871.

“This, That and the Other”. In Descriptions and Beyond, Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2004) pp. 68-182.

“Abbreviation, Scope & Ontology”. In Logical Form & Language, Gerhard Preyer & Georg Peter (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, (2002) pp. 13-53.

 “No Plagiarism Here”, Times Literary Supplement February 9, (2001), pp. 12-13.

“Meaning, Truth, Ontology”. In Interpreting Davidson, P. Kotako, P. Pagin & G. Segal (ed.), Stanford: CSLI, (2001) pp. 155-197.

“Meaning, Grammar and Indeterminacy”. In The Philosophy of Quine, vol. 4, D. Føllesdal (ed.), New York: Garland Press. [Reprint of 1987 paper], (2001) pp. 417-437.

“Implicature and Colouring”. In Paul Grice’s Heritage, G. Consenza (ed.), Rome: Brepols, (2001) pp. 135-180.

“H. P. Grice”. In A Companion to Analytic Philosophy, A. P. Martinich and D. Sosa (ed.), Oxford: Blackwell, (2001) pp. 254-273.

“Syntax”  (co-authored with Peter Ludlow). In The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, E. Craig (ed.), London: Routledge, (2000) pp. 873-874.

“On a Milestone of Empiricism”. In Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine, P. Kotatko & A. Orenstein (ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, (2000) pp. 237-346.

“On Being Explicit”, Mind & Language 15, (2000), pp. 284-294.

“Descriptions”. In The Concise Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, E. Craig (ed.), London: Routledge, (2000) pp. 205.

“Persistence, Polarity, and Plurality”. In Reference and Anaphoric Relations, U. Egli & K. von Heusinger (ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, (1999) pp. 147-153.

“On Representing”. In Library of Living Philosophers: Donald Davidson, L. E. Hahn (ed.), Illinois: Open Court, (1999) pp. 656-669.

“From Semantics to Ontology”. In Donald Davidson: Truth, Meaning and Knowledge, U. Zeglen (ed.), London: Routledge, (1999) pp. 76-87.

“Coloring and Composition”. In Philosophy and Linguistics, R. Stainton (ed.), Boulder, CO: Westview Press, (1999) pp. 35-82.

“Syntax” (co-authored with Peter Ludlow). In The Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 9, E. Craig (ed.), London: Routledge, (1998) pp. 246-253.

“Grammatical Form, Logical Form, and Incomplete Symbols”. In Definite Descriptions: A Reader, G. Ostertag (ed.), Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. [Reprint of 1993 paper], (1998) pp. 79-121.

“Grain and Content”, Philosophical Topics 26, (1998), pp. 199-206.

“Descriptions”. In The Routledge Encylopedia of Philosophy, Vol. 3, E. Craig (ed.), London: Routledge, (1998) pp. 19-24.

“Context and Communication”. In Definite Descriptions: A Reader, G. Ostertag (ed.), Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press. [Reprint of 1997 paper], (1998) pp. 309–368.

“Speaker’s Reference and Anaphora”. In Naturalized Semantics, D. Jutronic (ed.), Maribor, Slovenia: University of Maribor Press, (1997) pp. 202-214.

“Slingshots and Boomerangs”, Mind 106, (1997), pp. 143-168.
Co-authored with Josh Dever

“Inspiratívnost´ Russellovej Teórie Deskripcií (The Inspiring Ideas of Russell’s Theory of Descriptions)”, Organon F 4, 1, (1997), pp. 62-66.

“Context and Communication”. In Readings in the Philosophy of Language, P. Ludlow (ed.), Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, (1997) pp. 415-474.

“Anaphora”. In The Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Supplement, D. M. Borchert (ed.), New York: Simon & Schuster, (1996) pp. 23-27.

“The Philosophical Significance of Gödel’s Slingshot”, Mind 104, (1995), pp. 761-825.

“What is Logical Form?”. In Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science, D. Prawitz & D. Westerstahl (ed.), Dordrecht: Kluwer, (1994) pp. 583-598.

“The Place of Language”, Proceedings of the Aristotelean Society XCIV, (1994), pp. 215-227.

“Term Limits”, Philosophical Perspectives 7, (1993), pp. 89-114.

“Logical Form and LF”. In Noam Chomsky: Critical Assessments, Chris Otero (ed.), London: Routledge, (1993) pp. 788-838.

“Illuminating Sense and Illuminating Reference”, From the Logical Point of View 1, (1993), pp. 55-56 (abstract).

“Grammatical Form, Logical Form and Incomplete Symbols”. In Russell and Analytic Philosophy, A. D. Irvine & G. A. Wedeking (ed.), Toronto: University of Toronto Press, (1993) pp. 97-139.

“Paul Grice and the Philosophy of Language”, Linguistics & Philosophy 15, (1992), pp. 509-559.

“Obituary: H. Paul Grice”, Proceedings of the Academic Senate, University of California at Berkeley, (1992), pp. 58-60.
Co-authored with Barry Stroud, Bruce Vermazen & Bernard Williams

“Binary Quantifiers and Unary Quantifier-formers”, Journal of Symbolic Logic 57(1), (1992), pp. 318 (abstract).

“Reference”. In Handbook of Metaphysics & Ontology, H. Burkhardt & B. Smith (ed.), Munich: Philosophia Verlag, (1991) pp. 765-769.

“Logic and Anaphora”. In The Oxford International Encyclopaedia of Linguistics, W. Bright (ed.), Oxford: Oxford University Press, (1991) pp. 358-363.

“Indefinite Descriptions: In Defense of Russell”, Linguistics & Philosophy 14, (1991), pp. 761-825.
Co-authored with Peter Ludlow

“Event Descriptions and Modality”, Journal of Symbolic Logic 56(3), (1991), pp. 1136 (abstract).

“La Théorie des Descriptions: Passé et Présent”, Hermes 7, (1990), pp. 63-89.

“Descriptive Pronouns and Donkey Anaphora”, Journal of Philosophy 87(3), (1990), pp. 113-150.

“Russellian Indefinites, Russellian Anaphors”, Journal of Symbolic Logic 54, (1989), pp. 666-667 (abstract).
Co-authored with Peter Ludlow

“On One as an Anaphor”, Behavioral & Brain Science 12(2), (1989), pp. 353-54.

“Events and Logical Form”, Linguistics & Philosophy 11(3), (1988), pp. 303-321.

“A Russelian Solution to the Donkey Problem”, Journal of Symbolic Logic 53(4), (1988), pp. 1295 (abstract).

“Meaning, Grammar and Indeterminacy”, Dialectica 41(4), (1987), pp. 301-319.