PUBLICATIONS

BOOKS

  1. ​​Property Versatility and Copredication (with David Liebesman), Oxford University Press 2025. [detailed TOC] 
  2. Category Mistakes​, Oxford University Press, 2013. (Also appeared in paperback edition, 2016.) 

ARTICLES

  1. 'Moral vagueness, epistemicism, and the problem of infectious vagueness', forthcoming in the Lauener Library of Analytical Philosophy [draft]
  2. 'Infinite Jesters: deflationary reflections on new Zeno' (with Alex Kaiserman), Oxford Studies in Metaphysics 14 (2025): 222-257. [draft]
  3. 'Ambiguity tests, polysemy, and copredication' (with David Liebesman), Australasian Journal of Philosophy 102: 551–560 [publication] [draft] 
  4. 'Copredication and meaning transfer' (with David Liebesman), Journal of Semantics 40 (2023): 69-91 [published version (open access)]
  5. 'Meaning transfer revisited' (with David Liebesman), Philosophical Perspectives 32 (2018): 254-297 [draft]
  6. 'Conditional acceptance',  Oxford Studies in the Philosophy of Language 1 (2019): 99-121 [draft]
  7. 'Copredication, counting, and criteria of individuation: a response to Gotham' (with David Liebesman), Journal of Semantics 36 (2019): 549-561 [draft] [publication]
  8. 'How both you and the BIV can know whether or not you are envatted', Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 92 (2018): 151-181. [publication]  [draft]​
  9. 'Co-predication and property inheritance' (with David Liebesman), Philosophical Issues 27 (2017): 131-166  [publication]  [draft] [note: we have changed our mind on a few points in this paper. For our current considered view, please refer to  our 2025 book]
  10. ​'Epistemicism, distribution, and the argument from vagueness', Nous 52 (2018):144-170  ​[publication]  [draft] 
  11. 'Category mistakes and figurative language',  Philosophical Studies 174 (2017): 65-78 ​[publication] [open full view]
  12. 'Reflections on the ideology of reasons' (with John Hawthorne), Daniel Star (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Reasons and Normativity, Oxford University Press 2018, pp. 113-140.  [draft]
  13. 'Endurantism vs. Perdurantism?: A debate reconsidered', Nous 50 (2016): 509-532 [publication]  [draft]
  14. 'Response to Abrusán, Shaw, and Elbourne', Inquiry 59 (2016): 559-586 (*part of a symposium on my book Category Mistakes) [publication]  [draft]
  15. 'Why neither diachronic Universalism, nor the argument from vagueness ​establishes perdurantism', Canadian Journal of Philosophy 45 (2015): 113-126  [publication]  [draft]
  16. 'The myth of the de se',  Philosophical Perspectives ​29 (2015): 249-283 [publication] [draft]
  17. 'Semantic sovereignty' (with Stephen Kearns), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 58 (2012): 322-350. [publication] [draft]
  18. 'Strict finistism and the happy sorites', Journal of Philosophical Logic (2012): 471-91 [publication] [draft]
  19. 'Arbitrary reference' (with Wylie Breckenridge), Philosophical Studies 158 (2012): 377-400 [publication] [draft]​
  20. 'Assertion and epistemic opacity' (with John Hawthorne), Mind 219 (2010): 1087-105 [publication]
  21. 'Assertion, context, and epistemic accessibility' (with John Hawthorne), Mind 118 (2009): 377-397 [publication] [draft]
  22. 'Category mistakes are meaningful', Linguistics and Philosophy 32 (2009): 553-581 [publication]
  23. 'The last dogma of type confusions', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 109 (2009): 1-29 [publication] [draft]
  24. 'Epsitemicism about vagueness and meta-linguistic safety' (with Stephen Kearns), Philosophical Perspectives 22 (2008): 277-304 [publication] [draft]
  25. 'Another note on Zeno's arrow', Phronesis 53 (2008): 359-72 [publication] [draft]
  26. 'Strict finitism refuted?', Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society CVII (2007): 403-411 [publication] [draft]​​

SURVEY PAPERS

  1. 'Category Mistakes', ​Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy​
  2. 'The morning star is the evening star', in  Helen De Cruz (ed.), Philosophy Illustrated: 40 Thought Experiments to Broaden your Mind, Oxford University Press (2021). 
  3. 'The epistemicist solution to the sorites paradox',  in Oms S. and Zardini, E. (eds)., The Sorites Paradox, CUP (2019) [draft]  
  4. Arguments by Leibniz's Law in metaphysics',  Philosophy Compass 6 (2011): 180-95  [publication] 

CRITICAL NOTICES AND BOOK REVIEWS

  1. 'Logical validity, necessary existence, and the nature of propositions', Analysis 77 (2017): 377-393 (a contribution to a symposium on Trenton Merricks, Propositions) [draft]
  2. 'Natural language and how we use it: psychology, pragmatics, and presupposition', Analysis 70 (2010): 160-174 (a critical notice of Scott Soames, Philosophical Essays vol. 1, focusing especially in issues to do with presupposition) [publication]
  3. Review of Peter Ludlow, The Philosophy of Generative Linguistics, Analysis 72 (2012):  844-846. [publication]
  4. Review of Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge of the Internal World, Philosophical Review 119 (2010): 384-391 [publication]

WORK IN PROGRESS

  • 'Common currency names' (With David Liebesman)
  • 'Words apart: the problem of word fission' (with David Liebesman)
  • 'How to be a B-theorist' (with Alex Kaiserman)
  • 'Polysemy and Observations in Linguistics' (with David Liebesman)
  • 'Copredication' (with David Liebesman)', entry for Elsevier Encyclopaedia
    of Language and Linguistics    , third edition.
  • 'What copredication can(not) teach us' (with David Liebesman), to be published as target article in Theoretical Linguistics.
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