Department of Philosophy
"Direct Reference and the Theory of Meaning." PhD Dissertation, University of Chicago, 1984.
"Davidson's Theory of Meaning: Some Questions." Philosophical Studies (July 1985), 48(1):91-105.
Review of Graeme Forbes' The Metaphysics of Modality. Ethics (July 1986), 96(4):895-896.
"Belief, Information and Semantic Content: A Naturalist's Lament." Synthese (April 1987), 71(1):97-124.
"We've Got You Coming and Going." Linguistics and Philosophy (November 1988), 11(4):493-513.
"Narrow Content Functionalism and the Mind-Body Problem." Nous (June 1989), 23(3):355-372.
"Supervenience and Levels of Meaning." Southern Journal of Philosophy (Fall 1989), 27(3):443-458.
Review of Michael Devitt's and Kim Sterelny's Language and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language. Philosophical Review (April 1990), 99(2):260-263.
"On the Pragmatics of Mode of Reference Selection." Communication & Cognition (1993), 26(1):97-127.
"How Not to Refute Eliminative Materialism." Philosophical Psychology (1994), 7(1):101-125.
"Meaning, Reference, and Cognitive Significance." Mind and Language (March-June 1995), 10(1-2):129-180.
"The Psychology of Direct Reference." In Dunja Jutronic-Tihomirovic, ed., The Maribor Papers in Naturalized Semantics, pp. 225-242. Maribor: University of Maribor Press, 1997.
"Same Believers" In Enrique Villanueva, ed., Truth. Philosophical Issues, 8. Atascadero: Ridgeview, 1997.
"Francois Recanati's Direct Reference: From Language to Thought. Accomodationist Neo-Russellianism. Nous (December 1997), 31(4):538-556.
Truth and Meaning: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Language. Oxford & Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 1998.
"Emptiness without Compromise: A Referentialist Semantics for Empty Names." In Anthony Everett and Thomas Hofweber, eds., Empty Names, Fiction, and the Puzzles of Non-existence, pp. 17-36. Stanford, Calif.: CSLI Publications, 2000.
"What in Nature Is the Compulsion of Reason?" Synthese (February 2000), 122(1-2):209-244.
"On the Explanatory Limits of Behavioral Genetics." In David T. Wasserman and Robert Wachbroit, eds., Genetics and Criminal Behavior. Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
"Sex, Breakfast, and Descriptus Interruptus." Synthese (July 2001), 128(1-2):45-61.