Address: Arché
Department of Philosophy
The University of St Andrews
St Andrews
Fife KY16 9AL
Scotland
 
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Presentation
 
 
 
  Education: BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics, from Balliol College Oxford.
PhD from UC Berkeley in 1996. 		 
 
Work: 2007: Arché Professor, University of St Andrews
2004-2007: Professor of Philosophy, University of Oslo
2006-2007: CUF Lecturer, University of Oxford. Fellow & tutor, Somerville College
1996-2004: Vassar College (Associate Professor from 2002) 		 
 
Interests: My work is primarily in philosophy of language and related areas. Much of my work is focused on methodological issues.  
 
Arché: At the University of St-Andrews I work at the Arché Centre for the Philosophy of Logic, Language, Mathematics and Mind. For more information about Arché, take a look at our webpage: The Arché Centre  
 
CSMN: With Deirdre Wilson I direct the Philosophy of Language and Linguistics component of the Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN). For information about CSMN, take a look at our webpage: CSMN  
 
 
Books
 
 
 
 
Insensitive Semantics. A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
Blackwell Publishers, 2004. (w. E. Lepore).

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Language Turned on Itself: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic Discourse
Monograph. OUP, November 2007. (w. E. Lepore).

Table of contents and preface

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Forthcoming book from OUP with 14 essays discussing Insensitive Semantics: Context Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics  
 
 
Published Papers
 
 
 
 

Content Relativism and Semantic Blindness
Relative Truth ed. M. Kolbel and M. Garcia-Carpintero, OUP, 2007

Relevance Theory and Shared Content
Advances in Pragmatics, 2007, N. Burton-Roberts (ed.), Palgrave Macmillian (w. Lepore)

The Myth of Unarticulated Constituents
Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry, 2007, MIT Press, (eds. O'Rourke and Washington) (w. E. Lepore)

Locations and Binding
Analysis, 2007. (w. John Hawthorne)

Reply to Bach, Hawthorne, Korta & Perry, and Stainton
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2007. Symposium on Insensitive Semantics. Reply to Kent Bach, John Hawthorne, Kepa Korta & John Perry, and Rob Stainton

Semantics and Pragmatics: Some Central Issues
Introduction to Context Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics, 2007, G. Preyer and G. Peter (eds.), Oxford University Press

Propositional Skeletons and Disquotational Reports: Reply to Humberstone
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2007

Reply to Bezuidenhout, Gross, Recanati, Szabo, and Travis
Mind and Language, 2006. Symposium on Insensitive Semantics. Reply to Ann Bezuidenhout, Steven Gross, Francois Recanati, Zoltan Szabo and Charles Travis. (w. E.Lepore)

Quotation, Context Sensitivity, Signs, and Expressions
Philosophical Issues, Vol.16 : Philosophy of Language (Supplement to Nous), 2006. (w. E. Lepore)

Shared Content
Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, 2006, Oxford University Press, (eds.) E. Lepore and B. Smith (w. E. Lepore)

Pluralistic Skepticism
Philosophical Perspectives, 19, Epistemology, 2005

A Tall Tale: in Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
Contextualism in Philosophy (G.Preyer and G.Peter eds) Oxford University Press, 2005 (w. E. Lepore)

Quotation
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (w. E. Lepore)

Radical and Moderate Pragmatics: Does Meaning Determine Truth Conditions?
Semantics vs. Pragmatics, Zoltan Zsabo (ed.) Oxford University Press, 2005. (w. E. Lepore)

Context Shifting Arguments
Philosophical Perspectives, 17, Language and Philosophical Linguistics, Blackwell 2003 (w. E. Lepore)

Indexicality, Binding, Anaphora, and a Priori Truth
Analysis, 2002 (w. E. Lepore)

Insensitive Quantifiers
Truth and Meaning, 2001, O'Rouke (ed.), Seven Bridges Press (w. Lepore)

Believing in Words
Synthese, 2001, (w. Josh Dever)

Reference Externalized and the Role of Intuitions in Semantic Theory
American Philosophical Quarterly, 36-4 1999, with Douglas Winblad

Intentions in Words
Noûs, 33:1 1999

On an Alleged Connection Between Indirect Speech and The Theory of Meaning
Mind and Language, 12-3/4 1997 with E. Lepore

Varieties of Quotation
Mind, 106.423, 1997, with E. Lepore

  
 
 
Comments and Replies
 
 
 
 

Reply to Critics
Mind and Language, 2006. Symposium on Insensitive Semantics. Reply to Ann Bezuidenhout, Steven Gross, Francois Recanati, Zoltan Szabo and Charles Travis

Reply to Critics
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2006. Symposium on Insensitive Semantics. Reply to Kent Bach, John Hawthorne, Kepa Korta & John Perry, and Rob Stainton

Reply to John MacFarlane
Reply to comments from John MacFarlane at the Pacific APA in San Francisco on March 26, 2005. The most recent version of MacFarlanes paper can be found here (note that our reply is to the March 26. 2005 version of MacFarlanes paper): "Semantic Minimalism and Non-Indexical Contextualism"

Reply to Ken Taylor
Reply to comments from Ken Taylor at the Pacific APA in San Francisco on March 26, 2005. The most recent version of Taylors paper can be found here (note that our reply is to the March 26. 2005 version of Taylors paper): "A Little Sensitivity Goes a Long Way"

Reply to Mark Richard and Marga Reimer
Mind and Language, 14-4, 1998. Reply to Richard and Reimer's reply to our paper "On an Alledged Connection Between Indirect Speech and the Theory of Meaning" (w. E. Lepore)

Using, Mentioning and Quoting: A Reply to Saka
Mind, 642-750, vol. 108.432 October 1999, with E. Lepore

Reply to Commentaries
Philosophy and Linguistics, R. Stainton (ed.), Westview Pres, 1999, with E. Lepore

Reply to Tsohatzidis
Mind, 665-666, 1998, with E. Lepore

Kent Bach on Minimalism for Dummies
A very, very short reply to Kent Bach's reply to our reply to his forthcoming review of our book in PPR (only useful to those who have read the earlier stages of the exchange, reference to which can found at the end of this document).