“Context and Community” (handout
and slides)
Presented at the Bob Stalnaker Celebration, 16 April 2016.
“Slurs and Ideologies”
Presented at the Yale Ideology Conference, 29 January 2016.
Revised version forthcoming in Analyzing Ideology. Robin Celikates, Sally Haslanger, and Jason Stanley, editors. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
“Language and Ideology”
In Justin Khoo and Rachel Sterken (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language. London: Routledge, 2021.
“Channels for Common Ground”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. Online first 2020; DOI: 10.1111/phpr.12741.
“Omissive Implicature”
Philosophical Topics, vol. 45, no. 2 (2017): 117–137. DOI: 10.5840/ philtopics201745216
Critical notice of Jason Stanley’s How Propaganda Works
Mind, vol. 126, no. 503 (2017): 937–947. DOI: 10.1093/mind/fzw045
“Indeterminacy in Causation”
Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 67, no. 268 (2017): 606–624. DOI: 10.1093/pq/pqw068
“Probability in Philosophy of Language”
In Alan Hájek and Chris Hitchcock (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Probability and Philosophy, 772–788. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016.
“The Application of Constraint Semantics to the Language of Subjective Uncertainty”
Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 45, no. 2 (2016): 121–146. DOI: 10.1007/s10992-015-9367-5
“Ordering Supervaluationism, Counterpart Theory, and Ersatz
Fundamentality”
Journal of Philosophy, vol. 109, no. 6 (2014): 289–310.
“Subjunctive Biscuit and Stand-Off Conditionals”
Philosophical Studies, vol. 163, no. 3 (2013): 637–648. DOI: 10.1007/s11098-011-9836-9
“Conditional Excluded Middle without the Limit Assumption”
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 85, no. 2 (2012): 301–321. DOI: 10.1111/ j.1933-1592.2011.00507.x
“The Language of Causation”
In Delia Graff Fara and Gillian Russell (eds.), The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language, 716–728. London: Routledge, 2012.
“Propositional
Attitudes”
In Claudia Maienborn,
Klaus von Heusinger, and Paul Portner (eds.), Semantics:
An International Handbook of
Natural Language Meaning, vol. 2, 1538–1561. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2012.
“On the Treatment of Incomparability in Ordering Semantics and Premise
Semantics”
Journal of Philosophical Logic, vol. 40, no. 6 (2011): 693–713. DOI: 10.1007/s10992-010-9157-z
“How Not to Theorize about the Language of Subjective
Uncertainty”
In Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson (eds.), Epistemic
Modality, 249–269. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Lessons from the Context Sensitivity of
Causal Talk”
Journal of Philosophy, vol. 107, no. 5 (2010): 221–242.
“Structurally Defined Alternatives and Lexicalizations of XOR”
Linguistics and Philosophy, vol. 33, no. 1 (2010): 31–36. DOI: 10.1007/s10988-010-9074-1
“On Scope Relations between Quantifiers and Epistemic Modals”
Journal of Semantics, vol. 27, no. 4 (2010): 529–540. DOI: 10.1093/jos/ffq010
Review
of Reflections on Meaning, by Paul Horwich
Philosophical Review, vol. 118, no. 1 (2009): 131–134.
“Modality
in Language”
Philosophy
Compass, vol. 3, no. 6 (2008): 1193–1207. DOI:
10.1111/j.1747-9991 .2008. 00177.x
I've changed my mind about some things discussed in this article. On weak modals, and on the limit assumption, see “On the Treatment of Incomparability in Ordering Semantics and Premise
Semantics” (above); on the force associated with modals, drop me an email.
“A Note
on Gibbard's ‘Rational Credence and the Value of Truth’”
Oxford Studies in Epistemology, vol. 2 (2007): 179–189.
“Biscuit Conditionals and Common Ground”
Second North American Summer School
in Language, Logic and Information Student Session Proceedings (2003): 26–34.
“Imperative Force in the English Modal System” (handout)
Presented at the (first) 2012 Michigan Workshop in Philosophy and Linguistics, 5 May 2012.
“Constraint Semantics and the Language of Subjective Uncertainty” (handout and slides)
Presented at the
Chambers Philosophy Conference on Epistemic Modals at University of Nebraska-Lincoln,
16 April 2010.
“Constraint Semantics and its Application to Conditionals” (handout
and slides)
Presented at the First
Formal Epistemology
Festival, 29 July 2008.
Interactions with
Context
My dissertation (MIT, 2006). This contains (very) early versions of material in
“Propositional Attitudes,” “How Not to Theorize about the Language of
Subjective Uncertainty,” “Lessons from the Context Sensitivity of
Causal Talk,” and the constraint semantics papers and presentations.