Papers:

Figurative Language:

“Entertaining Metaphors”

A short outline of my dissertation project: A speech-act theory of metaphor.

The Concept of Intentional Action:

“Is the Trade-off Hypothesis Worth Trading For?”

           Forthcoming in Mind and Language

 

(With Hagop Sarkissian) The side effects which are most often thought to be intentional are not those most easily conceived of as trade-offs. 

“Why You Didn’t Do It Intentionally, Thou It was Bad and You Knew It”

             Philosophical Studies, (2008), 138, 291-8

(With Hagop Sarkissian) AKA “The Folk Strike Back”.  The side effects which are thought to be intentional are not those which are bad and known about.

Miscellany:

“Dirty, Cheap Contextualism”

The default meanings for our terms are rich, but we’re willing to drop these defaults, so our utterances (including knowledge claims) are context sensitive.

“The Red Herring of Compositionality and Beyond”

Weak compositionality of thought is sufficient, and prototype theory can supply it.

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