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Articles

Newest (all in pdf)
• Perspectives on Possibilities - Contextualism, Relativism, or What?
• Applying Pragmatics to Epistemology
• Knowledge in and out of Context
• Questions and Answers
• The Top Ten Misconceptions about Implicature
• Semantic Minimalism without Minimal Propositions: Commentary on Insensitive Semantics
•     Minimalism for Dummies: Reply to Cappelen and Lepore
•     From the Strange to the Bizarre: Another reply to Cappelen and Lepore
• Referentially Used Descriptions
• Getting a Thing into a Thought
• Why talk about wine?
• Knowledge, Wine, and Taste

      Language

On Referring
• On Referring and Not Referring (.pdf)
• Comparing Frege and Russell
• Descriptions: Points of Reference
• Giorgione was So-called Because of his Name
• Intentions and Demonstrations

Semantics-Pragmatics Series
• Regressions in Pragmatics (and Semantics)
• Impliciture vs. Explicature: What's the difference?
• Minding the Gap
• Context ex Machina (.pdf)
• The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction: What It Is and Why It Matters
• Seemingly Semantic Intuitions
• Speaking Loosely: Sentence Nonliterality
• Quantification, Qualification, and Context
• You Don't Say?
• Conversational Impliciture
• The Myth of Conventional Implicature
• Standardization Revisited
• Semantic, Pragmatic

Meeting of Minds
• The Emperor's New 'Knows' (.pdf)
• A Puzzle about Belief Reports
• Do Belief Reports Report Beliefs? (.rtf)
• Terms of Agreement

      Mind & World

• An Analysis of Self- Deception (.pdf)
• Emotional Disorder and Attention
• Default Reasoning: Jumping to conclusions and knowing when to think twice (.pdf)
• A Rationale for Reliabilism (.pdf)
• Accidental Truth and Would-be Knowledge
• Minimalism about Truth Aptitude
• Searle against the world: How can experiences find their objects?
• Part of What a Picture Is (.pdf)

Papers from the Past (1975-1994)

OLDIES

Encyclopedia Entries

• Ambiguity
• Content: Wide vs. Narrow
• Grice, Paul
• Indexical Content
• Meaning (MIT ECS)
• Meaning (Nature ECS)
• Performatives
• Speech Acts
  
• Speech Acts and Pragmatics

Reviews

• George Ainslie, Picoeconomics
• Jose Bermudez, The Paradox of Consciousness
• Emma Borg, Minimal Semantics
• Sometimes a Great Notion (review of Mark Crimmins, Talk about Beliefs)
• Engineering the Mind (review of Fred Dretske, Naturalizing the Mind)
• Robert Fiengo, Asking Questions
• Jerry Fodor, Concepts
• Krista Lawlor, New Thoughts about Old Things>
• B. McLaughlin and A. Rorty (eds.), Perspectives on Self-Deception
• Alfred Mele, Self-Deception Unmasked
• Chris Potts, The Logic of Conventional Implicatures
• Francois Recanati, Literal Meaning
• Robert Stainton, Words and Thoughts

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