Research Interests
-
Philosophy of Language
-
Philosophy of Mind
-
Metaphysics
-
Current projects include:
-
the philosophy of linguistics
-
foundational issues in semantics
-
the semantics of definite descriptions and demonstratives
-
semantic externalism
-
contemporary debates about scientific realism
Courses Recently Taught
-
Linguistic Pragmatism (Fall 2010)
-
Psychological Reality of Language (Fall 2008, Fall 2006)
-
Animal Cognition (Spring 2008)
-
Meaning (co-taught with Stephen Neale) (Fall 2007)
-
Philosophy of Biology (Spring 2007)
-
Reference (Spring 2006, 2004)
-
Meaning (Spring 2005)
-
Scientific Realism (Spring 2010, Fall 2004, Fall 2001)
-
Psychological Reality of Language (Fall 2003, Spring 2001)
-
Naming and Necessity and Its Background; co-taught with Saul Kripke (Spring 2002)
Representative Publications
Designation. New York: Columbia University Press, 1981, xiii, 311 pp.
Realism and Truth. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1984, ix, 250 pp. (Princeton: Princeton University Press). 2nd edn revised, Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991, xii, 327pp. Reprinted "with a new afterword," Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1997, xii, 371pp.
Coming to Our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1996, x, 338pp.
"Meanings Just Ain't in the Head."
Method, Reason and Language: Essays in honour of Hilary Putnam, George Boolos, ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1990), pp. 79-104. Reprinted in Croatian in Filozofskim Istrazivanjima 45 (1992), pp. 425-45.
"A Shocking Idea about Meaning."
Revue Internationale de Philosophie, a special issue devoted to Hilary Putnam, in press.
"The Metaphysics of Truth." In
The Nature of Truth, Michael Lynch, ed. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press (2001).