Philosophy and Linguistics papers

Ludlow, Peter (in press) “Philosophical Implications of Generative Grammar.” Cambridge University Press Handbook in the Philosophy of Language.


Ludlow, Peter (2019). “The philosophy of generative linguistics: best theory criteria.” In András Kertész, Edith Moravcsik, Csilla Rákosi (Eds.), Current Approaches to Syntax: A Comparative Handbook (pp. 521–548). Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110540253-019.


Ludlow, Peter (2019) “The Social Furniture of Virtual Worlds.” Disputato https://doi.org/10.2478/disp-2019-0009.


den Dikken, Marcel, Richard Larson, and Peter Ludlow. (2018) “Intensional Transitive Verbs and Abstract Clausal Complementation.” In A. Grzankowski and M. Montague (eds), Non-Propositional Intentionality, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 46-94.


Ludlow, Peter. (2017) “Cypher’s Choices: The Varieties and Reality of Virtual Experiences.” In M. Silcox (ed.) Experience Machines: The Philosophy of Virtual Words, New York: Roman and Littlefield, 13-32.


Ludlow, Peter. (2017) “Incorporation and Alleged Epistemic Modals.” Topoi 36, 155-159.

Ludlow, Peter. (2016) “Universal Grammar and the Philosophy of Language”. In I. Roberts (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Universal Grammar. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 61-76.

Ludlow, Peter. (2016) “Linguistic and Philosophical Methodology.” In H. Cappelen, T. Gendler, and J. Hawthorne (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 486-504.

Ludlow, Peter. (2016) “Tense, Perspectival Properties, and Special Relativity.” Manuscrito, 39, 49-74. https://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0100-6045.2016.v39n4.pl

Ludlow, Peter. (2015) “Tense, the Dynamic Lexicon, and the Flow of Time.” Topoi 34, 137-142.

Ludlow, Peter. (2014) “Recursion, Legibility, Use.” In P. Speas and T. Roeper (eds.) Recursion: Complexity in Cognition. Oxford University Press, 89-112.

Ludlow, Peter. (2014) “Descriptions.” In D. Fara and G. Russell. Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language. New York: Routledge, 380-391.

Ludlow, Peter. (2014) “Norms of Word Meaning Litigation.” ProtoSociology Volume 31: Language and Value, 88-112

Ludlow, Peter. (2013) “Tensism.” In L. de Saussure & K Jaszczolt (eds), Time: Language, Cognition and Reality. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 175-192

Ludlow, Peter. (2012) “Tense and the Philosophy of Language.” In R. Binnick (ed.). Oxford Handbook on Tense and Aspect. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ludlow, Peter. (2012) “Contextualism, Multi-tasking, and Third Person Knowledge Reports: A Note on Keith Derose’s The Case for Contextualism.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.

Ludlow, Peter. (2011) “Semantic Knowledge.” In S. Bernecker, (eds.). Routledge Companion to Epistemology. New York: Routledge, .

Ludlow, Peter. (2010) “Having Linguistic Rules and Knowing Linguistic Facts.” In D. Patterson and J. Woodbridge (eds.). Meaning, Understanding, and Knowledge: Baltic International Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 2010.

Ludlow, Peter. (2008) “Cheap Contextualism,” Nous. Philosophical Issues 16: Annual Supplement, Sosa and Villanueva (eds.).

Ludlow, Peter. (2007) “Understanding Temporal Indexicals,” (with reply by John Perry) in M. O'Rourke and C. Washington, (eds.). Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry. Cambridge: MIT Press.

Ludlow, Peter. (2006) "Tense," in E. Lepore and B. Smith (eds.), Handbook in the Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ludlow, Peter and Stephen Neale. (2006) "Descriptions," in M. Devitt and M. Hanley (eds.). Blackwell's Guide to the Philosophy of Language. Oxford: Blackwell's.

Ludlow, Peter. (2006) “The Myth of Human Language.” Croatian Journal of Philosophy 18.

Ludlow, Peter. (2006) “Derivare Consequenze Metafisiche da una Teoria Davidoniana Della Verita’.” Semantica e Ontologia, special issue of Rivista di Estetica 32, 21-40.

Ludlow, Peter. (2005) "Contextualism and the New Linguistic Turn In Epistemology" in G. Preyer and G. Peter (eds.) Contextualism in Philosophy: Knowledge, Meaning, Truth. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Ludlow, Peter. (2005) "A Note on Alleged Cases of Non-sentential Speech," in R. Eluguardo and R. Stainton. (eds.) Non-Sentential Speech. Dordrecht: Kluwer.

Ludlow, Peter. (2004) "What was I Thinking? Social Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Shifting Memory Targets," in R. Schantz (ed.), The Externalist Challenge: New Studies on Cognition and Intentionality, Berlin: de Gruyter.

Ludlow, Peter, and Gabriel Segal. (2004) "On a Unitary Semantical Analysis for Definite and Indefinite Descriptions." In A. Bezuidenhout and M. Reimer (eds.) Descriptions and Beyond: An Interdisciplinary Collection of Essays on Definite and Indefinite Descriptions. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

(2010) Translated into Polish as: “O jednorodnej analizie semantycznej deskrypcji określonych i nieokreślonych,” (tłum. Filip Kawczyński) Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 75, 2010.

Ludlow, Peter. "Presentism, Triviality, and the Varieties of Tensism," in D. Zimmerman (ed.) Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Vol. I. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, 21-36.

Ludlow, Peter. "Referential Semantics for I-Languages?" (with reply by Noam Chomsky), in N. Hornstein and L. Antony (eds.), Chomsky and His Critics, Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003, 140-161.

Ludlow, Peter, and Stacie Friend. "Disagreement and Deference: is Diversity of Opinion a Precondition for Thought?" Philosophical Perspectives 17: Language and Philosophical Linguistics, 2003, 115-139.

Ludlow, Peter. "Externalism, Logical Form, and Linguistic Intentions," in A. Barber (ed.), The Epistemology of Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002, 132-168.

Ludlow, Peter. "LF and Natural Logic." In G. Preyer (ed.) Logical Form, Language and Ontology: On Contemporary Developments in the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Ludlow, Peter. "Metaphysical Austerity and the Problems of Temporal and Modal Anaphora," in J. Tomberlin (ed.) Philosophical Perspectives 15: Metaphysics. Atascadero: Ridgeview Press, 2001. Preprint version appeared in Chronos, the Journal of the Philosophy of Time Society, Summer 2001.

Ludlow, Peter. "Noam Chomsky," in D. Sosa and A. Martinich (eds.), Blackwell's Companion to Analytic Philosophy. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2001.

Ludlow, Peter. “Interpreted Logical Forms, Belief Attribution, and the Dynamic Lexicon.” In. K.M. Jaszczolt (ed.) Pragmatics of Propositional Attitude Reports. Elsevier Science, Ltd, 2000.

Ludlow, Peter. “First Person Authority and Memory.” In M. de Caro (ed.), Interpretations and Causes: New Perspectives on Donald Davidson's Philosophy. Kluwer, 1999.

Ludlow, Peter. "Simplicity and Generative Grammar." In R. Stainton and K. Murasugi (eds.), Philosophy and Linguistics. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.

Ludlow, Peter. "Tempo e Tempo Verbale: la Strategia dal Basso all'Alto." (In Italian.) In L. Ruggiu (ed.) Filosofia del Tempo. Milano: Mondadori, 1998.

Ludlow, Peter. "On the Relevance of Slow Switching." Analysis 57, 1997, pp. 285-286. Reprinted in P. Ludlow and N. Martin (eds.). Externalism and Self-Knowledge. CSLI Publications, Stanford University (Dist. by Cambridge University Press), 1998.

Ludlow, Peter. "Semantics, Tense, and Time: On Tenseless Truth Conditions for Token-Reflexive Tensed Sentences." In G. Preyer (ed.) Protosociology 10: Cognitive Semantics I, 1997.

Ludlow, Peter. "The Adicity of 'Believes' and the Hidden Indexical Theory." Analysis 56, 1996, pp. 97-102.

den Dikken, Marcel, Richard Larson, and Peter Ludlow. "Intensional Transitive Verbs and Implicit Clauses," Rivista di Linguistica 8 (1996). Abridged version reprinted in P. Ludlow (ed.) Readings in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.

Ludlow, Peter. "Externalism and Memory: A Problem?" Acta Analytica 14, 1996. Reprinted in P. Ludlow and N. Martin (eds.). Externalism and Self-Knowledge. CSLI Publications, Stanford University (Dist. by Cambridge University Press), 1998.

Ludlow, Peter. "Indexical Knowledge and the Possibility of an Omniscient Being." (Translated into Russian). In M. Stewart and D. Clandenon (eds.) Contemporary Issues in the Philosophy of Religion Moscow: Progress Press, 1995.

Ludlow, Peter. "Social Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and Memory," Analysis, 55, 1995, pp. 157-159. Preprint version appeared in the electronic journal The Analyst, Feb., 1995. Reprinted in P. Ludlow and N. Martin (eds.). Externalism and Self-Knowledge. CSLI Publications, Stanford University (Dist. by Cambridge University Press), 1998.

Ludlow, Peter. "The Logical Form of Determiners," The Journal of Philosophical Logic 24, 1995, pp. 47-69.

Ludlow, Peter. "Logical Form and the Hidden Indexical Theory: A Reply to Schiffer" Journal of Philosophy 92, 1995, pp. 102-107.

Ludlow, Peter. "Externalism, Self-Knowledge, and the Prevalence of Slow-Switching," Analysis 55, 1995, pp 45-49. Reprinted in P. Ludlow and N. Martin (eds.). Externalism and Self-Knowledge. CSLI Publications, Stanford University (Dist. by Cambridge University Press), 1998.

Ludlow, Peter, "Conditionals, Events, and Unbound Pronouns," Lingua e Stile 29, 1994, pp. 3-20.

Larson, Richard, and Peter Ludlow. "Interpreted Logical Forms," Synthese 95, 1993, pp. 305-355. Reprinted in P. Ludlow (ed.) Readings in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.

Ludlow, Peter. "Do T-Theories Display Senses?," The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy 1, 1993.

Ludlow, Peter, and Norah Martin. "The Fallibility of First Person Knowledge of Intentionality," Commentary on A. Gopnik’s "How We Know Our Minds," Brain and Behavioral Sciences 16, 1993, p. 60.

Ludlow, Peter. "Formal Rigor and Linguistic Theory," Natural Language and Linguistic Theory 10, 1992, pp. 335-344.

Ludlow, Peter, and Stephen Neale. "Indefinite Descriptions: In Defense of Russell," Linguistics and Philosophy 14, #2, 1991, pp. 171-202. Reprinted in P. Ludlow (ed.) Readings in the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge: MIT Press, 1997.

Ludlow, Peter. "Implicit Comparison Classes," Linguistics and Philoso­phy 12, #4, 1989, pp. 521-533.

Ludlow, Peter. "Substitutional Semantics and Natural Language Quantification," Ausle­gung 12, #1, 1985, pp. 45-52.

Ludlow, Peter. "Substitutional Quantification and the Problem of Expression Types," Logique et Analyse 100, Dec., 1982, pp. 415-424.