Papers:

Figurative Language:

“Entertaining Metaphors”

A short, roughly correct outline of my dissertation project.

“The Inadequacy of Paraphrase is the Dogma of Metaphor” 

             Under Review

Challenging the idea that paraphrases of metaphor are inadequate.

Judgments of Intentionality:

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

           Forthcoming in Mind and Language

 

(With Hagop Sarkissian) Side effects thought to be intentional are not those thought 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.

Context, Epistemic Concepts, and Compositionality:

“Dirty, Cheap Contextualism”

We have rich, default meanings for our terms, which we are quick to renegotiate. Knowledge claims and other assertions 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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“Evidence that Stakes Don’t Matter for Evidence” 

             Under Review

(With Ram Neta) We should be skeptical about those of our intuitions which favor stakes sensitive invariantism about evidence.

“Striking Metaphors: A Theory of Figurative Language”

My perlocutionary account of figurative language, and metaphor in particular.