Selected
Publications and Work in Progress
Certain
publications are marked as
available in pdf form. Others will be available soon.
Works
in Progress
New
Thinking About
Structured Propositions, book
ms with Scott Soames and Jeff Speaks
under contract with Oxford University Press
'Acquaintance,
Singular Thought and Singular Propositions', under revision
'"Descriptive
Readings" of Indexicals and
Demonstratives', book ms
Books
The
Nature and Structure of Content.
New York: Oxford University Press, (2007). View
Complex
Demonstratives: A
Quantificational Account.
Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, (2001). View
Articles
'Propositional
Unity: What's the Problem,
Who has it
and Who Solves it?' forthcoming in Philosophical Studies PDF
'Speaker
Intentions in Context', forthcoming
in Nous
PDF
'On
Fineness of Grain', forthcoming in Philosophical
Studies PDF
"Questions
of Unity ", Proceedings
of the Aristotelian Society CIX,
Part 3, (2009), pp. 257-277. PDF
"Complex
Demonstratives, QI Uses and
Direct Reference", The
Philosophical Review 117,
(2008), pp.
99-117 . PDF
"Complex
Demonstratives as
Quantifiers: Objections and Replies", Philosophical
Studies
141(2), (2008), pp. 209-242. PDF
"What
in the world are the ways
things might have been?", Philosophical
Studies 133, (2007),
pp. 443-453 . PDF
"Singular
Terms, Reference and
Methodology in Semantics", Philosophical
Issues, supplement to Nous
16, (2006), pp. 141-161. PDF
"Semantics
for Monists", Mind
115(460), (2006), pp. 1023-1058. PDF
"Semantics,
Pragmatics and the Role
of Semantic Content". In Semantics
versus Pragmatics,
Zóltan Gendler Szabó (ed.), New York: Oxford
University
Press, (2005) pp. 111-164. PDF
Co-authored with Jason Stanley
"Context
Dependent Quantifiers and
Donkey Anaphora". In New
Essays in the Philosophy of Language,
Supplement to Canadian Journal of Philosophy, vol. 30,
M. Ezcurdia,
R. Stainton and C. Viger (ed.), Calgary, Alberta, Canada: University of
Calgary Press, (2004) pp. 97-127. PDF
"Tense,
Modality and Semantic
Values". In Philosophical
Perspectives, vol. 15, J.
Hawthorne
(ed.), Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Press, (2003) pp. 195-245. PDF
"Syntactic
Evidence for Semantic
Claims", Unpublished Ms.
Reply to Johnson and Lepore (2003),
RuCSS Technical Report 69, (2003), pp. 17. PDF
"Two
Sorts of Claims about Logical
Form". In Logical Form and
Language, G. Preyer and G. Peter
(ed.), New York: Oxford University Press, (2002) pp. 118-131. PDF
"Designating
Propositions", Philosophical
Review 111(3), (2002), pp.
341-371. PDF
"Remarks
on the Syntax and Semantics
of Day Designators". In Philosophical
Perspectives, vol. 15, J.
Tomberlin (ed.), Atascadero, CA: Ridgeview Press, (2001) pp. 291-333. PDF
"Are
Complex 'That' Phrases Devices
of Direct Reference?", Nous
33(2), (1999), pp. 155-182. PDF
"What
is a Philosophical Analysis?", Philosophical
Studies 90, (1998), pp. 155-179.
PDF
"The
Sources of Necessity", Protosociology
10, (1997), pp. 86-109.
"Structured
Propositions and Sentence
Structure", Journal of
Philosophical Logic 25(5),
(1996), pp.
495-521.
"Structured
Propositions and Complex
Predicates", Nous
29(4), (1995), pp. 516-535. PDF
"Can
Propositions be Naturalistically
Acceptable?", Midwest Studies
in Philosophy 19, (1994), pp.
53-75.
"Anaphora
and Operators", Nous
Supplement Philosophical
Issues, vol.8, (1994), pp.
221-250. PDF
"Intentional
Identity Generalized", Journal
of Philosophical Logic 22(1),
(1993), pp. 61-93.
"Instantial
Terms, Anaphora and
Arbitrary Objects", Philosophical
Studies 61(3), (1991), pp.
239-266. PDF
"Are
Indefinite Descriptions
Ambiguous?", Philosophical
Studies 53(3), (1988), pp.
417-440. PDF
"Pronouns,
Descriptions and the
Semantics of Discourse", Philosophical
Studies 51(3), (1987),
pp. 341-363. PDF