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A Selected Bibliography

Compiled by

Eddie Yeghiayan

1969

• "Identity Mistakes: Plato and the Logical Atomists." Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (1969-70), 70:181-195.

1973

• "Frege: The Twentieth Century Descartes." Review of Michael Dummett's Frege: Philosophy of Language. TLS [Times Literary Supplement] (November 30, 1973), 3743:1461-1462.

• Translated with Notes Plato's Theaetetus. Clarendon Plato Series. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York & London: Oxford University Press, 1973.
  

1974

• "Frege: The Twentieth Century Descartes" (1973). In T.L.S. 12: Essays and Reviews from the Times Literary Supplement, 1973. London: Oxford University Press, 1974.
  See "Frege: The Twentieth Century Descartes" (1973).

1976

• "Comment." In Stephan Köau;rner, ed., Philosophy of Logic: Papers and Discussions, pp. 196-201. 3d Bristol Conference on Critical Philosophy, 1974. Oxford: Blackwell; Berkeley: University of California Press, 1976.
  Comment on Fredrick B. Fitch's "The Relation between Natural Languages and Formalized Languages," pp. 183-190.
  See Fitch's "Reply to Comments," pp. 201-207.

• (with Gareth Evans.) "Introduction." In John McDowell and Gareth Evans, eds., Truth and Meaning: Essays in Semantics, pp. vii-xxiii. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
  

• (with Gareth Evans.) Edited. Truth and Meaning: Essays in Semantics. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.

• "Truth Conditions, Bivalence, and Verificationism." In John McDowell and Gareth Evans, eds., Truth and Meaning: Essays in Semantics, pp. 42-66. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1976.
  

1977

• "On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name." Mind (April 1977), 86(342):159-185.

1978

• "Are Moral Requirements Hypothetical Imperatives?" Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume (1978), 52:13-29.
  Followed by I.G. McFetridge, pp. 31-42.

• "On the Reality of the Past." In Christopher Hookway and Philip Pettit, eds., Action and Interpretation: Studies in the Philosophy of the Social Sciences, pp. 127-144. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978.

• "Physicalism and Primitive Denotation: Field on Tarski." Erkenntnis (July 1978), 13(1):131-152.
  On Hartry Field's "Tarski's Theory of Truth." Journal of Philosophy (July 13, 1972), 69(13):347-375.

1979

• "Virtue and Reason." Monist (July 1979), 62(3): 331-350.
  

1980

• "Literal Meaning and Fictional Utterance." Review of John Searle's Expression and Meaning: Studies in the Theory of Speech Acts. London Review of Books (April 17, 1980), 2(7):10-11.

• "Meaning, Communication, and Knowledge." In Zak van Straaten, ed., Philosophical Subjects: Essays Presented to P.F. Strawson, pp. 117-139. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980.
  See P.F. Strawson's "Reply to McDowell," pp. 260ff.

• "On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name." In Mark Platts, ed., Reference, Truth, and Reality: Essays on the Philosophy of Language, pp. 141-166. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
  See "On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name" (1977).

• "Physicalism and Primitive Denotation: Field on Tarski." In Mark Platts, ed., Reference, Truth, and Reality: Essays on the Philosophy of Language, pp. 111-130. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980.
  See "Physicalism and Primitive Denotation: Field on Tarski" (1978).

• "Quotation and Saying That." In Mark Platts, ed., Reference,Truth and Reality: Essays on the Philosophy of Language, pp. 206-237. London: Routledge & Paul, 1980.
  

• "The Role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Ethics." Proceedings of the African Classical Association (1980), 15:1-15.

• "The Role of Eudaimonia in Aristotle's Ethics." In Amélie Oksenberg Rorty, ed., Essays on Aristotle's Ethics, pp. 359-376. Major Thinkers Series, 2. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.
  

1981

• "Anti-Realism and the Epistemology of Understanding." In Herman Parret, ed., Meaning and Understanding, pp. 225-248. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1981.
  Part of an international conference on "Meaning and Understanding," held at the Château de Cerisy-la-Salle, Normandy, France in June 1979.

• "Engaging with the Essential." Review of Saul A. Kripke's Naming and Necessity. TLS [Times Literary Supplement] (January 16, 1981), 4059:61-62.

• "Non-Cognitivism and Rule-Following." In Steven H. Holtzman and Christopher M. Leich, ed., Wittgenstein: To Follow a Rule, pp. 141-162. International Library of Philosophy. London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981.
  Followed by Simon Blackburn's "Reply: Rule-Following and Moral Realism," pp. 163-187.
  Adapted from "Virtue and Reason" (1979).
  

1982

• "Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge." Proceedings of the British Academy (1982), 68:456-479.
  Annual Philosophical Lecture.
  

• "Double Vision." Review of Andrew Woodfield, ed., Thought and Object. TLS [Times Literary Supplement] (July 16, 1982), 4137:774.
  

• "Falsehood and Not-Being in Plato's Sophist." In Malcolm Schofield and Martha Craven Nussbaum, eds., Language and Logos: Studies in Ancient Greek Philosophy Presented to G.E.L. Owen, pp. 115-134. New York & Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
  

• "Reason and Action." Philosophical Investigations (October 1982), 5:301-305.
  On H.O. Mounce's "Reason and Action," pp. 266-278, and Donald Evans' "Reason and Action," pp. 279-300.

• Edited. Gareth Evans' The Varieties of Reference. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1982.
  

• "Truth-Value Gaps." In L.J. Cohen, ed., Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science: Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Hanover, 1979, pp. 299-314. Studies in Logic, Mathematics, and Philosophy of Science. Amsterdam: North-Holland, 1982.
  

• "Über `Die Wirklichkeit der Vergangenheit'." In Christopher Hookway and Philip Pettit, eds., Handlung und Interpretation: Studien zur Philosophie der Sozialwissenschaften, pp. 160-182. Berlin: de Gruyter, 1982.

1983

• "Aesthetic Value, Objectivity of World." In Eva Schaper, ed., Pleasure, Preference and Value: Studies in Philosophical Aesthetics, pp. 1-16. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983.
  

• "Sobre el Sentido y la Referencia de un Nombre Propio." Cuadernos de Critica (Buenos Aires) (1983), 20.
  Spanish translation of "On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name" (1977).

1984

• "De Re Senses." Philosophical Quarterly (July 1984), 34(136):283-294.
  Special issue on Frege.
  

• "De Re Senses." In Crispin Wright, ed., Frege: Tradition & Influence, pp. 98-109. Oxford & New York: Blackwell, 1984.
  

• (with Gareth Evans.) "Introduccion a Verdad y Significado." Cuadernos de Critica (Buenos Aires) (1984), 37.
  See "Introduction" (1976).

• "Wittgenstein on Following a Rule." Synthese (March 1984), 58(3):325-364.
  

1985

• "Functionalism and Anomalous Monism." In Ernest LePore and Brian P. McLaughlin, eds., Actions and Events: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson, pp. 387-398. Oxford & New York: Blackwell, 1985.
  

• "Values and Secondary Qualities." In Ted Honderich, ed., Morality and Objectivity: A Tribute to J.L. Mackie, pp. 110-129. International Library of Philosophy. London & Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1985.
  For comments, see Bernard Williams' "What Does Intuitionism Imply?" In Jonathan Dancy, J.M.E. Moravcsik and C.C.W. Taylor, eds., Human Agency: Language, Duty, and Value: Philosophical Essays in Honor of J.O. Urmson, pp. 192-198. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Universitry Press, 1988.
  

• Critical Notice of Bernard Williams' Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy. Mind (1986), 95(379):377-386.
  

• "Singular Thought and the Extent of Inner Space." In John McDowell and Philip Pettit, eds., Subject, Thought, and Context, pp. 137-168. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
  

• Edited (with Philip Pettit.) Subject, Thought, and Context. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
  Introduction, pp. 1-15.
  

1987

• "In Defence of Modesty." In Barry Taylor, ed., Michael Dummett: Contributions to Philosophy, pp. 59-80. Nijhoff International Philosophy Series, 25. Dordrecht, Holland & Boston, Mass.: Nijhoff, 1987.
  Dummett's "Reply to John McDowell," pp. 253-268.
  

1988

• "Comments on T.H. Irwin's `Some Rational Aspects of Incontinence'." Southern Journal of Philosophy (1988), 27(Supplement):89-102.
  On Terence Irwin's "Some Rational Aspects of Incontinence," pp. 49-88.
  The whole supplement is the Spindel Conference, 1988, on Aristotle's Ethics.
  

• "Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge." In Jonathan Dancy, ed., Perceptual Knowledge, pp. 209-219. Oxford Readings in Philosophy. Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
  See "Criteria, Defeasibility, and Knowledge" (1982).

• "Projection and Truth in Ethics." Lindley Lecture. Lawrence, Kan.: Department of Philosophy, University of Kansas, 1988.

• "Values and Secondary Qualities." In Geoffrey Sayre-McCord, ed., Essays on Moral Realism, pp. 166-180. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1988.
  

1989

• "Analyse." (- philosophique) [ling.] In André Jacob, ed., Encyclopédie Philosophique Universelle, Vol. 1, Part 1, pp. 90-91. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1989.
  

• "Mathematical Platonism and Dummettian Anti-Realism." Dialectica (1989), 43(1-2):173-192.
  

• "One Strand in the Private Language Argument." Grazer Philosophische Studien (1989), 33-34:285-303. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1989.

• "Siginification." [ling.] In André Jacob, ed., Encyclopédie Philosophique Universelle, Vol. 2, Part 2, pp. 2384-2386. Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1989.

• "Virtue and Reason." In Stanley G. Clarke and Evan Simpson, eds., Anti-Theory in Ethics and Moral Conservatism, pp. 87-109. SUNY Series in Ethical Theory. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989.
  See "Virtue and Reason" (1979).
  

• "Wittgenstein and the Inner World." [Abstract] Journal of Philosophy (November 1989), 86(11):643-644.
  Part of an APA Symposium on the Thought of Wittgenstein.
  

1990

• "John Leslie Mackie, 1917-1981." Proceedings of the British Academy (1990), 126:487-498.
  

• "Peacocke and Evans on Demonstrative Content." Mind (April 1990), 99(394):255-266.
  

1991

• "Intentionality and Interiority in Wittgenstein: Comment on Crispin Wright." In Klaus Puhl, ed., Meaning Scepticism, pp. 148-169. Foundations of Communication and Cognition. Berlin & New York: de Gruyter, 1991.
  See Crispin Wright's "Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy of Mind: Sensation, Privacy and Intention," pp. 126-147.
  Expanded version of "Wittgenstein and the Inner World" (1989).
  

• Intentionality De Re." In Ernest Lepore and Robert Van Gulick, eds., John Searle and His Critics, pp. 215-225. Oxford & Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1991. For Searle's response, see pp. 237-241.
  

1992

• Meaning and Intentionality in Wittgenstein's Later Philosophy." In Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling, Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, eds., The Wittgenstein Legacy, pp. 40-52. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 17. Notre Dame, Ind: University of Notre Dame Press, 1992.
  

• Putnam on Mind and Meaning." Philosophical Topics (Spring 1992), 20(1):35-48.
  

1993

• "On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name." In A.W. Moore, ed., Meaning and Reference, pp. 111-136. Oxford Readings in Philosophy. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  See "On the Sense and Reference of a Proper Name" (1977).
  

• "Wittgenstein on Following a Rule." In A.W. Moore, ed., Meaning and Reference, pp. 257-293. Oxford Readings in Philosophy. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993.
  See "Wittgenstein on Following a Rule" (1984).
  

1994

• "The Content of Perceptual Experience." Philosophical Quarterly (April 1994), 44(5) [175]:190-205.
  

• "Knowledge by Hearsay." In Bimal Krishna Matilal and Arindam Chakrabarti, eds., Knowing from Words: Western and Indian Philosophical Analysis of Understanding and Testimony, pp. 195-224. Synthese Library, 230. Dordrecht, Holland & Boston, Mass.: Kluwer Academic, 1994.

• Mind and the World. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1994.
  Revised version, with ancillary matter of the John Locke Lectures delivered at Oxford University in Trinity Term 1991.
  

1995

• "Eudaimonism and Realism in Aristotle's Ethics." In Robert Heinaman, ed., Aristotle and Moral Realism, pp. 201-218. London: University College London; Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1995.
  Followed by David Wiggins' "Eudaimonism and Realism in Aristotle's Ethics: A Repy to John McDowell," pp. 219-231.
  

• Knowledge and the Internal." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (December 1995), 55(4):877-893.
  

• "Might There Be External Reasons?" In J.E.J. Altham and Ross Harrison, eds., World, Mind, and Ethics: Essays on the Ethical Philosophy of Bernard Williams, pp. 68-85. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press, 1995.
  

• "Two Sorts of Naturalism." In Rosalind Hursthouse, Gavin Lawrence, and Warren Quinn, eds., Virtues and Reasons: Philippa Foot and Moral Theory, Essays in Honour of Philippa Foot, pp. 149-179. Oxford: Clarendon; New York: Oxford University Press, 1995.
  

• "Incontinence and Practical Wisdom in Aristotle." In Sabina Livibond and S.G. Williams, eds., Essays for David Wiggins: Identity, Truth and Value, pp. 95-112. Aristotelian Society Series, Volume 16. Cambridge, Mass.: Blackwell, 1996.

Forthcoming

• "Another Plea for Modesty." In Richard Heck, ed., Essays on the Work of Michael Dummett.

• "Reductionism and the First Person." In Jonathan Dancy, ed., Essays on the Work of Derek Parfit. Oxford: Blackwell.

• "Some Issues in Aristotle's Moral Psychology." In Stephen Everson, ed., Ethics. Companions to Ancient Thought. Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.