Last updated on December 19, 2011
Forthcoming book
Debating Self-Knowledge, co-authored with Anthony Brueckner. (A collection of some of Tony's and my already-published papers, in which we debate a cluster of closely-linked questions about self-knowledge, anti-individualism, and skepticism, and three new essays, two by me and one by Tony.) Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Forthcoming articles
"The Dialectical Context of Putnam's Argument that We are Not Brains in Vats", in Gary Ebbs and Anthony Brueckner, Debating Self-Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
"Self-Knowledge in Doubt", in Gary Ebbs and Anthony Brueckner, Debating Self-Knowledge (Cambridge University Press, 2012)
"Quine Gets the Last Word," Journal of Philosophy, 2012
“Putnam and the Contextually A Priori,” in Lewis E. Hahn and Randall E. Auxier, eds., The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam (La Salle, Illinois: Open Court) draft (pdf)
“Davidson’s Explication of Meaning,” in Gerhard Preyer, ed., Davidson’s Philosophy: A Reappraisal (Oxford University Press, 2012)
"Mendola's Internalism," in Analytic Philosophy, as part of a symposium on Joe Mendola's book Anti-Externalism
Publications
Rule-Following and Realism |
Truth & Words |
"Carnap and Quine on Truth by Convention," in Mind, Volume 120, Issue 478, April 2011 html, pdf
“Anti-Individualism, Self-Knowledge, and Epistemic Possibility: A Clarification and Defense of a Puzzle About Doubt,” in A. Hatzimoysis, ed., Self-Knowledge (Oxford University Press, 2011), 53-79 pdf
“Why Skepticism About Self-Knowledge is Self-Undermining,” in Analysis, Volume 65, Number 3 (2005): 237-244 pdf
“Denotation and Discovery,” in Frederick F. Schmitt, ed., Socializing Metaphysics: the Nature of Social Reality (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), 247-268 pdf
“A Puzzle About Doubt,” in Susana Nuccetelli, ed., New Essays on Semantic Externalism and Self-Knowledge (MIT, 2003), 143-168 pdf
“Learning from Others,” Noûs, Volume 36, Number 4 (2002): 525-549 pdf
“Truth and Trans-Theoretical Terms,” in James Conant and Urszula Zeglen, eds., Hilary Putnam: Pragmatism and Realism (London: Routledge, 2002), 167-185
“Is Skepticism about Self-Knowledge Coherent?” Philosophical Studies 105 (2001): 43-58
“Carnap’s Logical Syntax,” in Richard Gaskin, ed., Grammar in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy (London: Routledge, 2001), 218-237
“Vagueness, Sharp Boundaries, and Supervenience Conditions,” Synthese 127 (2001): 303-323
“The Very Idea of Sameness of Extension Across Time,” American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 37, Number 3 (2000): 245-268 pdf
“Bilgrami’s Theory of Belief and Meaning,” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 58, Number 3 (1998): 613-620
“Can We Take Our Words at Face Value?” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 56, Number 3 (1996): 499-530
“Realism and Rational Inquiry,” Philosophical Topics, Volume 20, Number 1 (1992): 1-33
“Skepticism, Objectivity, and Brains in Vats,” Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 73, Number 3 (1992): 239-266
Review of Pursuit of Truth, rev. ed., by W. V. Quine, The Philosophical Review, Volume 103, Number 3 (1994): 535-541
Works in Progress
"Carnap and Quine," for Gilbert Harman and Ernest Lepore (eds.), A Companion to Quine (Blackwell)
"Logical Truth from a Quinean Point of View"
"Transparence and Entitlement at the Limits of Doubt"
"How to Think About Whether We Are Brains in Vats"
"Satisfying Predicates for First-Order Schemata: the Löwenheim-Hilbert-Bernays Theorem"
"The Philosophical Significance of the Löwenheim-Hilbert-Bernays Theorem"
"Can a Deflationist Make Sense of Kripke's Semantic Arguments Against Descriptivism?"