Publications

Some Recent Publications:

(2024) The Gift of Oryx: Caring for a Species Extinct in the Wild (Perry Street Press).
(2021) Situation Awareness in Racing Sailors, in R. Casati (ed.), The Sailing Mind (Springer Nature), pp. 97-115. pdf
(2020) That-clauses in attitude predicates: Giving syntax its due, Theoretical Linguistics 46(3-4): 289-95. pdf
(2020) That-clauses: Some bad news for relationalism about the attitudes, Mind and Language 37(3): 414-31. pdf
(2017) The Elusive Case for Relationalism about the Attitudes, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 94: 453-62. pdf
(2017) Measurement and Computational Skepticism, Nous 51: 832-54, with Eli Dresner. pdf

(2013) Belief and Belief's Penumbra, in N. Nottlemann (ed.), New Essays on Belief (Palgrave
(2007/2010) The Measure of Mind: Propositional Attitudes and their Attribution (Oxford University Press).
(2006) Knowledge of Language and Linguistic Competence, in E. Sosa & E. Villanueva (eds.), Philosophy of Language: Philosophical Issues 16 (Blackwell), pp. 200-20. pdf
(2006) Doing Cognitive Neuroscience: A Third Way, Synthese 153:377-91. (Co-authored with Frances Egan.)
(2006) Could Competent Speakers Really Be Ignorant of Their Language? , a special issue of the Croatian Journal of Philosophy VI:459-69. pdf
(2003) Does Linguistic Competence Require Knowledge of Language?, in A. Barber (ed.), Epistemology of Language (Oxford University Press), pp. 187-213.
(1991) Psychological Reality of Grammars, in A. Kasher (ed.), the Chomskyan Turn (Basil Blackwell), pp. 182-99. pdf
(1989) Learnability and Linguistic Theory, in R. Matthews & W. Demopoulos (eds.), Learnability and Linguistic Theory (Kluwer), pp. 103-22.
(1986) Learnability of Semantic Theory, in E. Lepore (ed.), The Philosophy of Donald Davidson: A Perspective on Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation (Basil Blackwell), pp. 49-78.
(1984) The Plausibility of Rationalism, Journal of Philosophy 81: 492-515.
(1979) Are the Grammatical Sentences of a Language a Recursive Set?, Synthese 40:209-24.