I work in the Philosophy of Language; some of my work also overlaps nearby subjects such as Cognitive Science, Epistemology, Metaphysics, and Philosophy of Mind. Some sample publications are posted below.

Books

 

• (2018) The Constitutive A Priori: Developing and Extending an Epistemological Framework. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.

• (2013) Reference and Structure in the Philosophy of Language: a Defense of the Russellian Orthodoxy. Routledge.

 

Papers

• (2022) "Are There Non-Propositional Implicatures?", forthcoming, The Philosophical Quarterly.
• (2022) "Semantic Dimensions of Slurs", Philosophia (50): 1479-1493.
• (2020) "Limning the External Dimensions of Meaning", in Sensations, Thought, Language, Essays in Honor of Brian Loar, Routledge, pp. 113-34.
• (2019) "The Varieties of Verbal Irony", Lingua (232): 1-22.
• (2017) "Evaluating the Cancellability Test", Journal of Pragmatics (121): 162-74.
• (2015) "The Future of the Proposition", Language & Communication (40): 14-23.
• (2015) "What Do Deviant Logians Show About the Epistemology of Logic?", Acta Analytica (30): 179-91.
• (2014) "On the Semantic Relevance of Romanovs", in Semantics and Beyond: Philosophical and Linguistic Investigations, ed., P. Stalmaszczyk, de Gruyter, Press, pp. 255-70
• (2013) "Multiple propositions, contextual variability, and the semantics/pragmatics... Interface", Synthese (190): 2773-2800.
• (2012) "On Pragmatic Regularities", in Philosophical Approaches to Linguistic Analysis, ed., Stalmaszczyk, Ontos Verlag, pp. 491-513.
• (2012) "Referring in Discourse", in the Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics, K. Allen and K. Jaszczolt, ed., Cambridge University Press.
• (2010) "Millian Externalism", in New Essays on Singular Thought, R. Jeshion, ed., Oxford University Press, pp. 246-69.
• (2009) "Against Structured Referring Expressions", Philosophical Studies (146): 49-74.
• (2008) "Truth in Virtue of Meaning", Canadian Journal of Philosophy (38): 373-97.
• (2007) "Rigid Designation and Semantic Structure", Philosophers’ Imprint (vol.7, #6): 1-22.
• (2005) "Rigid Designation, Direct Reference, and Modal Metaphysics", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (86): 577-99.
• (2005) "Reference, Philosophical theories", in the Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (2nd edition), Elsevier Publishers, K. Brown, ed.
• (2003) "'Paging Dr. Lauben!': Some Questions about Individualism and Competence", Philosophical Studies (115): 201-24.
• (1998) "Singular Propositions and Singular Thoughts", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic (39): 114-27.