Links are (where available) to the PhilPapers entry for the paper, and the published versions (many of which are Open Access). If the papers are not open access, then pre-proof versions can be found through the PhilPapers links and via my PhilPeople profile. If there is anything that you would like to see but cannot get access to, please e-mail me and I'll be happy to send a copy.
There are many other people also called James Miller, including a few other philosophers that share the name. To try to avoid confusions, I publish using my initials and surname, as JTM Miller.
Forthcoming, Words and Other Linguistic Entities, Oxford University Press. (Available here)
2022, Metaphysical Realism and Anti-Realism, Cambridge University Press. (Available here)
2021, The Language of Ontology, Oxford University Press. (Available here)
2020, The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, Routledge. Co-edited with Ricki Bliss. (Available here)
Forthcoming, Words, in Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Linguistics, edited by Gabe Dupre, Ryan Nefdt, and Kate Stanton.
Forthcoming, Towards a Non-Ideal Metaphysics of Words. Grazer Philosophische Studien, as part of a special issue on 'The Social Foundations of Language'.
2025, Words Without Intentions, Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 25(74): 211-220. [Published Version]
2025, ‘Water’ and ‘Water’: On Twin Earth and the Metaphysics of Words, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, 1-19. Online First. [Published Version]
2025, How to Misspell 'Paris'. Philosophy, 99(4): 511 – 537. [Published Version]
2025, ‘Types and Tokens’ in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Third Edition), edited by Hilary Nesi, Petar Milin and Matthieu Fontaine. [Published Version].
2025, ‘Linguistic Kinds’ in Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics (Third Edition), edited by Hilary Nesi, Petar Milin and Matthieu Fontaine. [Published Version].
2025, There Are No Uninstantiated Words, Inquiry. 68(2): 209-214. DOI: 10.1080/0020174X.2022.2078405. Open Access [Published Version]
2024, The Metaphysics of Puns, Synthese. 203: 130 . Open Access [Published Version]
2024, 'Hyperintensionality and Ontological Categories', Erkenntnis. 89, 2663–2681 (2024). DOI: 10.1007/s10670-022-00646-3. Open Access [Published Version]
2023, Who's Afraid of Conceptual Analysis?. In Thomasson on Ontology, Miguel Garcia-Godinez (ed.), p. 85-108. Palgrave Macmillan. [Published Version]
2023, Easy Ontology, Regress, and Holism, Erkenntnis. 88: 1855–1868. DOI: 10.1007/s11229-024-04583-2 Open Access [Published Version]
2023, 'Merely Verbal Disputes and Common Ground', Theoria. 89(1): 114-123. DOI: 10.1111/theo.12449. Open Access [Published Version]
2022, 'Sameness of Word', European Journal of Analytic Philosophy. 18(2): 2-26. DOI: 10.31820/ejap.18.2.2. Open Access [Published Version]
2022, Does Linguistics Need (Weak) Emergence?, in From Electrons to Elephants and Elections: Saga of Content and Context, S. Wuppuluri and I. Steward (eds.), pp. 23-38. Springer. [Published Version]
2021, Words, Species, and Kinds, Metaphysics. 4(1):18–31. Open Access [Published Version]
2021, What Counts as a ‘Good’ Metaphysical Language?, in The Language of Ontology, pp. 102-119, OUP. [Pubished Version]
2021, A Bundle Theory of Words, Synthese. 198: 5731–5748. Open Access [Published Version]
2020, Metaphysics as the Science of the Possible, in The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, pp. 480-491. Routledge. [Pubished Version]
2020, The Ontology of Words: Realism, Nominalism, and Eliminativism, Philosophy Compass, 15(7): 1-13. [Published Version]
2020, On the Individuation of Words, Inquiry. 63(8): 875-884. [Published Version]
2019, Natural Name Theory and Linguistics Kinds, The Journal of Philosophy, 116(9): 494-508. [Published Version]
2018, Are All Primitives Created Equal?, Southern Journal of Philosophy, 56(2): 273-292. [Published Version]
2018, E.J. Lowe, Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy. [Published Version]
2017, Language and Ontological Emergence, Philosophica, 91(1): 105-143. [Published Version]
2016, The Non-existence of Ontological Categories: A defence of Lowe, Metaphysica,17(2): 163–176. [Published Version]
2016, Can an Ontological Pluralist Really be a Realist?, Metaphilosophy,47 (3): 425–430. [Published Version]
2014, Lexicalisation and the Origin of the Human Mind, Biosemiotics,7(1): 11-27 (with Thomas J. Hughes). [Published Version]
2012, The Unavoidable Dream Problem, in Inception and Philosophy, Johnson, D, and Irwin, W. (eds.), Hoboken, New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell.
2011, Methodological Issues for Interdisciplinary Research, Postgraduate English, 23: 1-13.
2023, Review of 'E.J. Lowe and Ontology, Edited by Mirosław Szatkowski', The Philosophical Quarterly. [Published Version]
2021, The Language of Ontology, in The Language of Ontology, pp. 1-7, OUP.
2020, What is Metametaphysics?, in The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics (with Ricki Bliss), pp. 1-10, Routledge.
2017, Strong Emergence: Introduction to Special Issue, Philosophica. 91(1): 5-13 (with Alexander D. Carruth). [Published Version]
2017, Review of Benovsky’s Meta-metaphysics: On Metaphysical Equivalence, Primitiveness, and Theory Choice, Dialectica, 71(4): 623-628. [Published Version]
2016, Review of Handfield’s A Philosophical Guide to Chance, The Philosophical Quarterly, 66 (262): 193-196. [Published Version]
2014, Review of Button’s The Limits of Realism, Philosophy in Review, 34(3-4): 151-154. [Published Version]
2013, Review of Hirsch’s Quantifier Variance and Realism: Essays in Metaontology, Philosophy in Review, 33(6): 464-467. [Published Version]
2023, The Philosophy of Words, Synthese. Co-edited with Thomas J. Hughes. [Link to Issue]
2017, Strong Emergence, Philosophica, 2017, Vol. 91-2. Co-edited with Alexander Carruth and Mark Pexton. [Link to Issue]