Books

Articles & book chapters

1. "Truth and Meaning Redux," with Ernie Lepore, in press, Philosophical Studies.
2. "Donald Davidson," in press, in Key Thinkers in the Philosophy of Language, ed. Barry Lee, Continuum Press.
3. "Triangulation Triangulated," in press, Triangulation: from and epistemological point of view, Cristina Amoretti and Gerhard Preyer, eds., Protosociology.
4. "Donald Davidson," with Ernie Lepore, in 12 Modern Philosophers, eds. C. Belshaw and G. Kemp, Wiley, 2009.
5. "Fodor’s Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind," with Susan Schneider, Mind and Language, 23, 2008: 123-143.
6. "The Concept of Truth and the Semantics of the Truth Predicate," with Emil Badici, Inquiry, 2007, 50(6): 622–638.
7. “Radical Misinterpretation: A Reply to Stoutland,” with Ernie Lepore, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2007, 15(4): 557–585.
8. "The Problem with Radical Interpretation: Reply to Simon Evnine and Piers Rawling," Book Symposium on Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality, Florida Philosophical Review, 2007.
9. "The Epistemology of Thought Experiments: First vs. Third Person Approaches," in Midwest Studies in Philosophy, Philosophy and the Empirical, 2007, 31 (1), 128–159.
10. "The Reality of Language: on the Davidson-Dummett Debate," with Ernie Lepore, The Philosophy of Michael Dummett: The Library of Living Philosophers, Open Court, 2007, pp. 185-214.
11. "The Argument from Normative Autonomy for Collective Agents," Journal of Social Philosophy, 2007, 38(3): 410-427.
12. "Collective Intentional Behavior from the Standpoint of Semantics," Noûs, 2007, 41(3): 355-393.
13. "Foundations of Social Reality in Collective Intentional Behavior", in Intentional Acts and Institutional Facts: Essays on John Searle’s Social Ontology, Savas L. Tsohatzidis (editor), Dordrecht: Springer, 2007.
14. "Ontology in the Theory of Meaning," with Ernie Lepore, International Journal of Philosophical Studies, 2006, 14(3): 321-331.
15. "Semantics for Nondeclaratives," with Daniel Boisvert, The Oxford Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, eds. B. Smith and E. Lepore, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 864-892.
16. "Donald Davidson: Essays on Actions and Events," Classics of Western Philosophy: The Twentieth Century: Quine and After, vol. 5. Acumen Press, 2006, pp. 146-165.
17. "Is the aim of perception to provide accurate representations?" Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science, Blackwell, 2006.
18. "Davidson's Objection to Horwich's Minimalism about Truth," Journal of Philosophy, August 2004, pp. 429-437.
19.  "Rationality, Language and the Principle of Charity," in The Oxford Handbook of Rationality, eds. A. Mele and P. Rawling, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 343-362.
20. "Donald Davidson," with Ernie Lepore, Midwest Studies in Philosophy, September 2004, vol. 28, pp. 309-333.
21.  "The Mind-Body Problem: An Overview," in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind, eds. T. Warfield and S. Stich, Blackwell, 2003, pp. 1-46.
22.  "Outline of a Truth Conditional Semantics for Tense," with Ernie Lepore, in Tense, Time and Reference, eds. A. Jokic and Q. Smith, Cambridge: MIT Press, 2003, pp. 49-105. Abstract.
23.  "Phenomenal Consciousness and Intentionality: Comments on The Significance of Consciousness," Psyche, 8, 2002.
24.  "Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox" with Greg Ray, Philosophical Perspectives 16, 2002.  Abstract.
25.  "What is Logical Form?" with Ernie Lepore, in Interpreting Davidson, eds. P. Kotatko, P. Pagin, G. Segal, Stanford, CSLI, 2001, pp. 111-142; Logical Form and Language, eds. G. Preyer and Georg Peter, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002, pp. 54-90.  Abstract. 
26.  "What is the role of a truth theory in a meaning theory?" in Truth and Meaning: Topics in Contemporary Philosophy, Seven Bridge Press, 2001, pp. 142-163.
27.  "The Semantics and Pragmatics of Complex Demonstratives," with Ernie Lepore, Mind 109 (April 2000): 199-240.  Abstract.
28. "Meaning, Truth and Interpretation," in Discussions with Donald Davidson on Truth, Meaning and Knowledge, ed. Ursula Zeglen, Routledge, 1999: 27-46. Abstract.
29. "Functionalism, Causation and Causal Relevance," Psyche 4(3) March 1998. Abstract.
30. "Semantics for Opaque Contexts," with Greg Ray, Philosophical Perspectives, 12, Language, Mind and Ontology (1998): 141-166. Abstract.
31. "The Truth about Moods," in Protosociology, Cognitive Semantics I: Conceptions of Meaning, 10, (1997): 19-66.  Reprinted in Concepts of Meaning: Framing an Integrated Theory of Linguistic Behavior, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003.  Abstract.
32. "Explaining Why Things Look the Way They Do," in Perception, Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science, v. 5, ed. by Kathleen Akins, Oxford: Oxford University Press (1996): 18-60. Abstract. (pdf)
33. "Duplicating Thoughts," Mind & Language 11 (March 1996): 92-102.  Abstract. (pdf)
34. "Singular Thought and the Cartesian Theory of Mind," Noûs, (December 1996): 434-460.  Abstract.
35. "Shape Properties and Perception," Perception, Philosophical Issues, v. 6, ed. Enrique Villanueva, Ridgeview (1995): 325-350. Abstract. (pdf )
36. "Trying the Impossible: Reply to Adams," Discipline Filosofiche 2 (Fall 1993): 213-226 (in Italian); published in English in The Journal of Philosophical Research XX (1995): 563-570.  Abstract.
37. "Why the difference between Quantum and Classical Mechanics is Irrelevant to the Mind Body Problem," Psyche 2(5) (October 1995). Discussion.
38. "First Person Knowledge and Authority," in Language, Mind, & Epistemology: On Donald Davidson's Philosophy, eds. Gerhard Preyer, Frank Siebelt, Alexander Ulfig, Kluwer Academic Publishers (1994): 367-398. Abstract. (pdf)
39. "Are There More than Minimal A Priori Constraints on Irrationality?" with John Biro, Australasian Journal of Philosophy (March 1994): 89-102. Abstract. (pdf)
40.   "Causal Relevance and Thought Content," Philosophical Quarterly 44 (July 1994): 334-353. Abstract. (pdf)
41. "Dretske on Explaining Behavior," Acta Analytica v. 8 no. 11 (1994): 111-124. Abstract. (pdf)
42. "A Dilemma for Searle's Argument for the Connection Principle," continuing commentary in The Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (March 1993): 194-5. (pdf)
43. "Direct Reference in Thought and Speech," Communication and Cognition 26 (1993): 49-76. Abstract. (pdf)
44. "Is Content Holism Incoherent?", Holism: a consumer's update, special issue of Grazer Philosophische Studien, ed. by Ernie Lepore, 46 (1993): 173-195. Abstract. (pdf)
45. "Externalism, Naturalism, and Method," in Naturalism and Normativity, Philosophical Issues, v. 4,  ed. Enrique Villaneuva, Ridgeview (1993): 250-264. Abstract. (pdf)
46. "Skepticism and Interpretation," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 52 (June 1992): 317-340. Abstract. (pdf)
47. "Impossible Doings," Philosophical Studies 65 (March 1992): 257-281. Abstract. (pdf)
48. "Brains in a Vat, Subjectivity, and the Causal Theory of Reference," The Journal of Philosophical Research XVII (1992): 313-345. Abstract. (pdf)

Reviews & Critical Notices

1. "Critical Notice: Donald Davidson, Subjective, Intersubjective, Objective; Problems of Rationality; Language, Truth and History, Mind, 116 (April 2007): pp. 405-416.
2. "Paul Pietroski, Causing Actions," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 81 (June 2003): pp. 295-297.
3. “Review Essay: John Campbell, Reference and Consciousness,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 66(2) (March 2003): pp. 481-488.
4.  "Francios Recanati's Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta,"  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 66(2) (March 2003): pp. 481-488.
5.  "Critical Notice: Ron McClamrock, Existential Cognition," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 59, no. 2 (June 1999)
6. "Critical Notice: Georges Rey, Contemporary Philosophy of Mind," Mind January 1998.
7. "Blueprint for a Science of Mind: A Critical Notice of Christopher Peacocke's A Study of Concepts," Mind & Language (Dec. 1994): 469-491. 

Dictionary and Encyclopedia entries

Recent and Upcoming Presentations

Past

1. Kompaktseminar on "Truth and Meaning in Davidson's Philosophy: A Critical Assessment," 8-12 February 2010, University of Heidelberg. (seminar blog)
2. "Truth and Meaning Redux: Reply to Soames," Meaning Conference, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, 3-5 September, 2009.
3. "Truth and meaning Redux: Reply to Soames," Colloquium, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 23 April 2009.
4. "Davidson's 'Actions, Reasons and Causes'", Quine-Davidson seminar, Harmon and Lepore, Princeton, April 10, 2009.
5. "Intuitions and Relativity," Seminar on Philosophical Method, University of Oslo, February 25th, 2009.
6. "Ontology and Collective Intentionality," Symposium on Collective Intentionality, Central Division APA, February 18-21, 2009.
7. Commentary on Simon Evnine, Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood, Florida Philosophical Association Book Symposium, November 14, 2008.
8. “Collective Action and Proxy Agency,” Kline Conference, University of Missouri, Columbia, October 3, 2008.
9. “Intuition and Relativity," Armchair in Flames? Experimental Philosophy and its Critics, Workshop, Cologne University, Sept. 22-24, 2008, organized by Thomas Grundmann, Joachim Horvath, University of Cologne, Germany.
10. "Collective Action and Proxy Agency," Collective Intentionality VI, July 8-11, 2008, Berkeley, California.
11. “How is Language Possible?,” 14th Annual Ohio University Philosophy Forum Public Lecture, Ohio University, May 7-9, 2008.
12. "A New Analysis of Constitutive Rules," Society for Exact Philosophy, May 13-18, 2008, Laramie, Wyoming.
13. “Sententialism and Higher-order Attitude Attributions,” Symposium, CD APA, April 18th, 2008, Chicago. Commentators: Stephen Schiffer and James Higginbotham.
14. "Sententialism and Higher-order Attitude Attributions," Society for Exact Philosophy, UBC, Vancouver, May 17-20, 2007.
15. "The Ontology of Collective Agency," colloquium presentation, Philosophy Department, Washington University, St. Louis, December 7, 2006.
16. Author meets critics session on Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality, with Simon Evnine and Peirs Rawling, Florida Philosophical Association, USF, Tampa, November 10th, 2006.
17. "The Argument from Normative Autonomy for Collective Agents," Collective Intentionality V, Helsinki, Finland, August 31st - September 2nd, 2006.
18. "Fodor’s Challenge to the Classical Computational Theory of Mind," with Susan Schneider, Society for Exact Philosophy, San Diego, May 18-21, 2006.
19. Symposium: "Fodor's Version of the Frame Problem: A Solution" with Susan Schneider, Eastern Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, New York, December 30, 2005.
20. "Collective Intentional Behavior," Florida Philosophical Association, November 11, 2005.
21. Authors meet critics session at the Central Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language and Reality, with Gil Harman, Jim Higginbotham, and Paul Pietroski, April 30, 2005.
22. "Collective Intentional Behavior from the Standpoint of Semantics," colloquium, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, March 2, 2005.
23. "Collective Intentional Behavior from the Standpoint of Sementics," Action and Agency, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, February 18-19, 2005.
24. "Aspects of the Aesthetics of Architecture," Bosphorus University, Istanbul, Turkey, December 22, 2004.
25. "Collective Intentional Behavior from the Standpoint of Semantics," colloquium, University of Fribourg, Fribourg, Switzerland, November 4th, 2004.
26. "Collective Intentional Behavior from the Standpoint of Semantics," Conference on Collective Intentionality IV, Siena, Italy, October 14, 2004.
27. "Universalizability and R. M. Hare’s Argument for Utilitarianism," Central Division American Philosophical Association Meetings, Chicago, March 22-25, 2004.
28. "A conservative modal semantics with applications to de re necessities," Pacific Division American Philosophical Association Meetings, Los Angeles, March 24-28, 2004.
29. "Universalizability and R. M. Hare’s Argument for Utilitarianism, " Florida Philosophical Association, St. Petersburg, November 2003
30.  "Hare’s Argument for Utilitarianism," Ethics Conference, Bled, Slovenia, June 2-6, 2003.
31. "Comment on ‘Possibly vs. Actually the Case: On Davidson’s Omniscient Interpreter’," Central Division APA, Cleveland, Ohio, April 25-27, 2003.
32. "Comment on ‘Fodor’s Version of the Frame Problem: A Solution’," Pacific Division APA, San Francisco, California, March 26-30, 2003.
33.  "Rationality and non-inferential knowledge of what we think", Rationality Conference, led, Slovenia, June 3-8, 2002.
34. "Comments on Tim Black’s ‘A Moorean Response to Skepticism’," Pacific Division American Philosophical Association Meetings, Seattle, Washington, March 27-April 1, 2002.
35.  "The Arrangement of the Soul: Philosophy and the Professional Philosopher," Presidential Address, Florida Philosophical Association, November 11^th, 2001.
36. "Comments on Richard’s "Force and Truth"," Rutgers Semantics Workshop, New Brunswick, May 19, 2001.
37. "Ontology and the Theory of Meaning," Society for Exact Philosophy, Montreal, May 12, 2001.
38. "Comments on Siewert’s The Significance of Consciousness," Symposium at the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology, New Orleans, April 14^th, 2001.
39.  "An Ontologically and Epistemically Conservative Modal Semantics with applications to de re necessities and arguments for coincident entities," Language, Mind and World, sponsored by the Autonomous University of Mexico, Tlaxcala, Mexico, March 14^th-17^th, 2001.
40.  "What is the role of a truth theory in a meaning theory?" Symposium paper, Eastern Division APA, December 2000.
41. "An Ontologically and Epistemically Conservative Modal Semantics," conference on Philosophical Analysis, Bled, Slovenia, June 10^th, 2000.
42. "Necessities," Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Paris, May 29^th, 2000.
43. "Davidson’s Transcendental Arguments for the Primacy of the Third Person Point of View," Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Paris, May 26^th, 2000.
44. "An Ontologically and Epistemically Conservative Modal Semantics," Workshop on Quine, Aix en Provence, University of Provence, May 19^th, 2000.
45. "Vagueness and the Sorites Paradox," University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany, May 17^th, 2000.
46. "What is the role of a truth theory in a meaning theory?" 3^rd Inland Northwest Philosophy Conference, Truth and Meaning, Moscow, Idaho & Pullman, Washington, March 24 - 27, 2000.
47. "A Conservative Modal Semantics with Applications to De Re Necessities and Arguments for Coincident Entities," Society for Exact Philosophy, Gainesville, Florida, March 9 - 12, 2000.
48. "Tense, Time and Thought," with Ernie Lepore, Florida Philosophical Association Meetings, November 11-13, 1999.
49. "Is There a Problem about Vagueness?" with Greg Ray, Florida Philosophical Association Meetings, November 11-13, 1999.
50. "What is Logical Form?" with Ernie Lepore, Society for Exact Philosophy meetings, Lethbridge, Canada, May 1999.
51. "Is There a Problem about Vagueness?" with Greg Ray, Pacific Division American Philosophical Association Meetings, March 31 - April 3, 1999.
52. "Is There a Problem about Vagueness?" with Greg Ray, Interuniversity Center Conference on Vagueness, Bled, Slovenia, June 1-5, 1998.
53. "Complex Demonstratives," with Ernie Lepore, Society for Exact Philosophy, May 7-10, 1998.
54. "Conceptions of Logical Form," with Ernie Lepore, invited symposium on logical form, Central Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, May 1998.
55. "Complex Demonstratives," with Ernie Lepore, Pacific Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, March/April 1998.
56. "Complex Demonstratives," Florida State University colloquium, February 6th, 1998
57. "The Truth about Moods," Society for Exact Philosophy, Montreal, May 16-18, 1997.
58. "Comment on Casullo’s ‘A Priori Justification’," American Philosophical Association meetings, Pacific Division, Berkeley, California, March/April 1997.
59. "Semantics for Opacity," with Greg Ray, Easter Division meetings of the American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, December 27-30, 1996.
60. "The Truth about Moods," Interpreting Davidson, the 5th Karlovy Vary Philosophical Symposium, sponsored by the Philosophical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences and the European Society for Analytic Philosophy, Sept. 9-13, 1996.
61. "Semantics for Opacity," with Greg Ray, Society for Exact Philosophy, Memphis, October 1996.
62. "Semantics for Opacity," with Greg Ray, at the Second European Congress of Analytic Philosophy, University of Leeds, England, Sept. 4-6, 1996.

Presentations (1990-1995)

Education

• Ph.D. Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1990.
• B.S. Physics, Highest Honors, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1981.