Research

Books

Propositional Content, Oxford University Press, June 2015. (Amazon

    "What Made Russell Feel Ready for Suicide?" OUP Blog Post   

    NDPR review by Andreas Stokke

    Philosophical Review review by Indrek Reiland

    European Journal of Philosophy review by Daniel Brigham

   Language review by Peter Pagin


Papers

“The Varieties of Cancellation,” in Force, Content, and the Unity of the Proposition, edited by Gabriele Mras and Michael Schmitz, Routledge, 2022, 93-111.

“Singular Propositions,” Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, vol. II, edited by Ernest Lepore and David Sosa, Oxford: Oxford University Press,  2021. (link)

“Soames on the Tractatus,” Philosophical Studies 176, 2019, 1367-1376.

"On Cancellation," Synthese, Special Issue: Unity of Structured Propositions, edited by Bjorn Jespersen and Manuel Garcia-Carpintero, April 2019, 1385-1402.

"Types of Speech Acts," in New Work on Speech Acts, edited by Daniel Fogal, Daniel Harris, and Matt Moss, Oxford University Press, 2018, 123-43.

"The Explanatory Role of Propositions," Analysis 77, April 2017, 359-70. (link)

"Predication and Rule-Following," in Philosophy and Logic of Predication, edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Peter Lang GmbH, 2017, 199-223. 

"Propositions, Synonymy, and Compositional Semantics," forthcoming in Act-Based Conceptions of Propositional Content: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives, Friederike Moltmann and Mark Textor (eds.), Oxford University Press, 2017, 235-53.

"Bipolarity and Sense in the Tractatus," Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 2, No.9, 2014. (link)

"What are the Primary Bearers of Truth?" Canadian Journal of Philosophy 43, Special Issue: Essays on the Nature of Propositions, David Hunter and Gurpreet Rattan (eds.), October - December 2013, pp. 558-74. (link)

"First-Person Propositions," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 86, January 2013, 155-182. (link)

"Early Wittgenstein on Judgment," in Wittgenstein's Early Philosophy, Jose Zalabardo (ed.), Oxford University Press, 2012, 37-63.

"Structured Propositions as Types," Mind 120, January 2011, 11-52. (link)

"Recent Work on Propositions," Philosophy Compass 4, March 2009, 1-18. 

"Conceiving of Pain," (with Brendan O'Sullivan), Dialogue 47, 2008, 351-76. 

"A Dilemma About Necessity," Erkenntnis 68, January 2008, 129-48. (link)

"The Content-Force Distinction," Philosophical Studies 134, May 2007, 141-64. (link)

"How Wittgenstein Defeated Russell's Multiple Relation Theory of Judgment," Synthese 154, January 2007, 121-46. (link)


Handbook and Encyclopedia Articles

"The Distinction Between Content and Force," The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, edited by Ernest Lepore and Una Stojnic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.  

"Propositions, Predication, and Assertion," The Cambridge Handbook of Philosophy of Language, edited by Piotr Stalmaszczyk, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022,  349-65. 

“The View of Propositions as Types of Actions,” Routledge Handbook of Propositions, edited by Chris Tillman, Routledge, forthcoming.

"Reference as a Speech Act," The Oxford Handbook on Reference, edited by Barbara Abbott & Jeanette Gundel, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019, 11-18.

"Questions," The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, Macmillan, 2006, vol. 10, 32-7. 

"Addendum to 'Propositions'," The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd Edition, Macmillan, 2006, vol. 8, 90-1. 


Reviews

Self-Consciousness and Objectivity: An Introduction to Absolute Idealism, by Sebastian Rödl, European Journal of Philosophy 27, March 2019, 291-4.

Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions: A History and Defense of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement, by Samuel Lebens, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, March 2018. (link) 

The Early Wittgenstein on Metaphysics, Natural Science, Language and Value, Chon Tejedor, Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, Jan. 2017. (link)

New Thinking About Propositions, Jeffrey King, Scott Soames, and Jeff Speaks, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Sept. 2014. (link)   

Transient Truths, Berit Brogaard, Analysis 74, July 2014, pp. 541-3. (link)  

Belief About the Self: A Defense of the Property Theory of Content, Neil Feit, Analysis 69, July 2009. (pdf)

Donald Davidson: Meaning, Truth, Language, and Reality, Ernest Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, International Philosophical Quarterly 46, June 2006.

Reference Without Referents, R.M. Sainsbury, Disputatio 1, May 2006. 

Critical Study of Beyond Rigidity, Scott Soames, Nous 40, March 2006, 184-203. 

The Mechanics of Meaning, David Hyder, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, April 2004.