Here are some examples of my scholarship. I am also currently working on a book in Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, and Metaphysics and Ontology, tentatively entitled, Language, Thought, and Reality. The book also examines certain topics addressed by Bertrand Russell in Lectures on Logical Atomism.

The links to the published papers work only if you, or your institution, subscribe to the service. That's not my idea; the papers are online only because the publishers have put them online, and they have limited access to them. There are links here so that those who can and want to access them have their addresses.

• "Descriptions," forthcoming in the Encyclopedia of British Philosophy (2006)

• "Revised Factualism." The Monist 77 (1994) 207-16.

• "Contingency, Aprioricity and Acquaintance." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (1993) 323-43.

• "Review of Daniel Vanderveken's Meaning and Speech Acts." Mind 101 (1992) 397-401.

• "On Believing, Saying and Expressing." Synthese 79 (1989) 191-200.

• "Dickie on Artifactuality." The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 47 (1989) 175-77.

• "The Millian Theory of Names and the Problems of Negative Existentials and Non-Referring Names." in D.F. Austin (ed.) Philosophical Analysis: A Defense by Example. (Reidel: 1988) 241-49.

• "Belief, Linguistic Behavior, and Propositional Content." Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 47 (1986) 277-87.

• "On Bernard Harrison and Rigid Definite Descriptions." Mind 93 (1984) 430-32.

• "Beliefs, Facts and Propositions." American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, 1993

• "Perry on Cognitive Significance." American Philosophical Association, Atlanta, 1989.

• "Coming to Believe What You Already Believe." Minnesota Conference on Language and Linguistics, XV, Minneapolis, 1989.

• "On Saying What We Say Because We Believe What We Say." American Philosophical Association, Boston, 1986.

• "Kripke on A Prioricity and Necessity." American Philosophical Association, Los Angeles, 1986.

• "Truth and Facts." Main Hall Forum, Lawrence University, 2001.

• "The Role of the Theory of Forms in Plato's Republic." Freshman Studies Lecture on Plato's Republic, Lawrence University, 1999. (This is a substantially revised version of the 1992 lecture.)

• "The Theory of Forms and the Law of Non-contradiction." Freshman Studies Lecture on Plato's Republic, Lawrence University, 1992.

• "No Virginia, There is no Santa Claus." Main Hall Forum, Lawrence University, 1987.

• "Kuhn on Theoretical Terms." Freshman Studies Lecture on Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Lawrence University, 1986.

Proper Names and Definite Descriptions. University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1984, Director: Edmund L. Gettier, III.

• Philosophy and Logic Editor (2000), Nupedia.

• Topic Editor (Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, and Bertrand Russell), Episteme Links.

• Russell's Theory of Descriptions

• On Kripke's Views about Rigid Designators

• Truth and Facts