DORIT BAR-ON Professor

Dorit Bar-On specializes in philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Her  Speaking My Mind: Expression and Self-Knowledge has just been published by Oxford University Press. Sample publications: "Skepticism: the External World and Meaning," Philosophical Studies (1990); "The Underdetermination of Scientific Theories and the Indeterminacy of Semantic Theory," Logica (1991); "On the Possibility of a Solitary Language," Noûs (1992); "Is There Such a Thing as a Language?" (with Mark Risjord), Canadian Journal of Philosophy (1992); "Semantic Verificationism, Linguistic Behaviorism, and Translation," Philosophical Studies (1992); "Indeterminacy of Translation: Theory and Practice," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (1993); "Conceptual Relativism and Translation," Proto-soziologie (1994); "Anti-Realism and Speaker Knowledge," Synthese (1996); "'Meaning' Reconstructed: Grice and the Naturalizing of Semantics," Pacific Philosophical Quarterly (1997); "'Natural' Semantic Facts: Between Eliminativism and Hyper-Realism," The Maribor Papers in Naturalized Semantics (1997); "Deflationism and Truth-Condition Theories of Meaning" (with William Lycan, and Claire Horisk), Philosophical Studies (2000); "Speaking My Mind," Philosophical Topics (2000); "Avowals and First-Person Privilege" (with Douglas Long), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (2001); "Knowing Selves: Expression, Truth, and Knowledge" (with Douglas Long) Privileged Access, ed. by Gertler (2002); "Externalism and Self-Knowledge: Content, Use, and Expression" Noûs (2004); "Language, Concepts, and Culture: Between Pluralism and Relativism," Facta Philosophica (2004); "Semantic Eliminativist and the 'Theory'-Theory of Linguistic Understanding," Canadian Journal of Philosophy, Supplementary Volume (2004); "Deflationism" (with Keith Simmons), Oxford Handbook in Philosophy of Language, ed. by LePore (2006); "The Use of Force Against Deflationism: Assertion and Truth" (with Keith Simmons) Truth and Speech Acts, ed. by Greimann and Siegwart, Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy (2007); "Expression, Truth, and Reality: Some Variations on Themes from Wright" (forthcoming); "Ethical Neo-Expressivism" (with Matthew Chrisman), Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Vol. V, ed. by Shafer-Landau (forthcoming).[Complete CV]

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email: dbar@email.unc.edu
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