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papers
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Some publications (page-proofs may not exactly accord with final, published version):
Can One Sincerely Say What One Doesn't Believe? In Mind & Language, Symposium on Cappelen and Lepore, 21, 2006, pp. 11-20.
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Can Empirical Theories of Semantic Competence Really Help Limn the Structure of Reality? In Nous 40, 2006, pp. 43-81. [pdf]
Trivalent Semantics and the Vaguely Vague. In Synthese (forthcoming). [pdf]
The Biconditional Doctrine: Contra Koelbel on a 'Dogma' of Davidsonian Semantics. In Erkenntnis 62, 2005, pp. 189-210. [pdf]
The Nature of Semantics: On Jackendoff's Arguments. In The Linguistic Review 22, 2005, pp. 249-270. [pdf]
Context-Sensitive Truth-Theoretic Accounts of Semantic Competence. In Mind & Language 20, 2005, pp. 68-102. [pdf]
Linguistic Understanding and Belief. In Mind 114, 2005, pp. 61-6. [pdf]
Putnam, Context, and Ontology. In Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34, 2004, pp. 507-54. [pdf]
Vagueness, Indirect Speech Reports, and the World. In Protosociology (Special Issue on Semantic Theory and Reported Speech)
17, 2002, pp. 153-68. [pdf]
Vagueness, Indeterminacy, and Uncertainty. In Indeterminacy, ed. J. Ciprut (MIT Press, forthcoming). (Written in 1999-2000.
A much longer version circulated under the title An Invitation to Vagueness.)
Is Context-Sensitivity Eliminable? Some Remarks. In The Dialogue (Yearbook of Philosophical Hermeneutics: The Legitimacy of
Truth, Proceedings of the Third Meeting, Italian-American Philosophy) 2, 2002, pp. 21-38. [pdf]
Putnam, Kontext und Ontologie. In Hilary Putnam und die Tradition des Pragmatismus, eds. Marie-Luise Raters and Marcus
Willaschek (Suhrkamp, 2002), pp. 404-36.
Vagueness in Context. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference
of the Cognitive Science Society, eds. Lila Gleitman and Avarind Joshi (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000), pp. 208-13.
Essays
on Linguistic Context-Sensitivity and its Philosophical Significance. Studies in Philosophy: Outstanding Dissertations (Routledge,
2001). (Contents: Introduction; I. The Pervasiveness and Utility of Context-Sensitivity; II. What is a Context?; III. Context-Sensitivity
and Truth-Theoretic Accounts of Semantic Competence; IV. Context, Vagueness, and the Sorites Paradox; V. Context and Ontology
(Some Initial Considerations).)
Some reviews and encyclopedia entries:
Natural Kind Terms. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., 2006, vol. 8, pp. 492-6. [pdf]
Normativity. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., 2006, vol. 8, pp. 698-701. [pdf]
Review of Robert Brandom, Articulating Reasons, in The Philosophical Review 111 (April, 2002), pp. 284-7. [pdf]
Review of Jerry Fodor, Concepts, in Mind 110 (April 2001), pp. 469-75. [pdf]
Review of Fiona Cowie, What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered, in The Philosophical Review 110 (January 2001), pp. 94-7. [pdf]
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