Ordinary Objects. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.

Fiction and Metaphysics. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1999.

Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind. (Co-edited with David W. Smith). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Articles and Book Chapters:

"Modal Normativism and the Methods of Metaphysics", in Philosophical Topics, forthcoming.

"The Significance of Artifacts for Metaphysics", in Anthonie Meijers, ed. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science Volume: Handbook of Philosophy of the Technological Sciences, Elsevier Science, forthcoming.

“Answerable and Unanswerable Questions”, in David Chalmers, Ryan Wasserman and David Manley, eds. Metametaphysics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 (in press). (Prior version available at Online Philosophy Conference.)

"Phenomenal Consciousness and the Phenomenal World", Monist, 91, No. 2 (April 2008): 191-214.

“Existence Questions”. Philosophical Studies 141 (2008): 63-78.

“Conceptual Analysis in Phenomenology and Ordinary Language Philosophy”, in Michael Beaney, ed. The Analytic Turn: Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology, London: Routledge, 2007.

“Artifacts and Human Concepts”, Creations of the Mind: Essays on Artifacts and their Representation, ed. Stephen Laurence and Eric Margolis, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.

“Metaphysical Arguments against Ordinary Objects”, Philosophical Quarterly 56, No. 224 (July 2006): 340-359.

Self-Awareness and Self-Knowledge. Psyche. 12/2 (May 2006).

“Debates about the Ontology of Art: What are we doing here?”, Philosophy Compass, Volume 1. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006.

“Ingarden and the Ontology of Cultural Objects”, Existence, Culture, Persons: The Ontology of Roman Ingarden. Arkadiusz Chrudzimski, ed. Frankfurt: Ontos, 2005.

“First-Person Knowledge in Phenomenology”, Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, ed. David W. Smith and Amie L. Thomasson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

(with David W. Smith) Introduction to Phenomenology and Philosophy of Mind, ed. David W. Smith and Amie L. Thomasson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

“The Ontology of Art and Knowledge in Aesthetics”, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 63:3 (Summer 2005): 221-229.

“Methods of Categorization”, in Achille C. Varzi and Laure Vieu, eds. Formal Ontology in Information Systems: Proceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS 2004). Amsterdam: IOS Press, 2004.

“The Ontology of Art”, The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, ed. Peter Kivy, Oxford: Blackwell (2004): 78-92.

“Fictional Characters as Abstract Artifacts” (reprinted from Chapter 1 of my (1999) Fiction and Metaphysics). In Philosophy of Literature: Contemporary and Classic Readings, ed. Eileen John and Dominic McIver Lopes. Oxford: Blackwell (2004): 144-153.

“Introspection and Phenomenological Method”, Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences, Vol. 2, Issue 3 (2003): 239-254.

“Foundations for a Social Ontology”, Protosociology, "Understanding the Social II: Philosophy of Sociality" Vol. 18-19 (2003): 269-290.

“Speaking of Fictional Characters”, Dialectica, Vol. 57, No.2 (2003): 207-226.

“Realism and Human Kinds”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXVII, No.3 (November 2003): 580-609.

“Ingarden and the Theory of Dependence”, published in Polish as “Ingarden i teoria zależności bytowej” (translated by Artur Mordka). ΣΟΦΙΑ Nr. 3 (2003): 243-262.

“Fictional Characters and Literary Practices”, British Journal of Aesthetics, Vol. 43, No. 2, April 2003.

“Phenomenology and the Development of Analytic Philosophy”, Southern Journal of Philosophy Philosophy Vol XL (2002) Supplement (Proceedings of the 2001 Spindel Conference “Origins: The Common Sources of the Analytic and Phenomenological Traditions”): 115-142.

“Ontological Minimalism”, American Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 38, No. 4 (October 2001): 319-331.

“Geographic Objects and the Science of Geography”, Topoi Vol. 20, No. 2 (September 2001): 149-159.

“After Brentano: A One-Level Theory of Consciousness”, European Journal of Philosophy Vol. 8 No. 2 (August 2000): 190-209.

“A Non-reductivist Solution to Mental Causation”, Philosophical Studies 89 (1998): 181-191.

“The Ontology of the Social World in Searle, Husserl and Beyond” Phenomenological Inquiry Vol. 21 (October 1997): 109-136.

“Fiction, Modality and Dependent Abstracta”, Philosophical Studies 84, Nos. 2-3 (December 1996): 295-320.

“Fictional Characters: Dependent or Abstract? A Reply to Reicher's Objections” Conceptus XXIX, Nr. 74 (1996): 119-144.

“ Fiction and Intentionality”, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56, No. 2 (June 1996): 277-298.

“Die Identität fiktionaler Gegenstände” (“The Identity of Fictional Objects”), Conceptus XXVII, Nr. 70 (1994): 77-95.

“The Reference of Fictional Names”, Kriterion 3, No. 6 (1993): 3-12.

Encyclopedia Entries:

"Fictional Entities", review essay in Gary Rosenkrantz, ed. A Companion to Metaphysics. Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming.

“Categories”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/categories. (first posted 2004).

“Roman Ingarden”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ingarden. (first posted 2003).

Book Reviews and Discussions:

"In what sense is Phenomenology Transcendental?" Comments on Dan Zahavi "Subjectivity and the First-Person Perspective," Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2007.

Review of Wolfgang Huemer The Constitution of Consciousness: A Study in Analytic Phenomenology, Husserl Studies 23/2 (July 2007): 161-67.

Review of Crawford Elder Real Natures and Familiar Objects, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 74/2 (2007): 518-523.

“Two Puzzles for a New Theory of Consciousness”, in symposium on Charles Siewert’s The Significance of Consciousness,  Psyché (e-journal), Volume 8 (February 2002):  http://psyche.cs.monash.edu.au/v8/psyche-8-03-thomasson.html

Review of Arindam Chakrabarti Denying Existence, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. LXI, No. 1 (July 2000): 233-235.

Review of D. W. Mertz Moderate Realism and Its Logic, Philosophical Review, Vol. 107, No. 3 (July 1998): 474-477.

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