Selected Publications

Information on additional publications is included with the relevant abstracts

1. "Conceptualism," forthcoming in P. F. Strawson & A. Chakrabarti, eds., Universals, Concepts and Qualities [A first step toward the rehabilitation of conceptualism; | Introduction]
2. "Abstract Entities and Philosophical Quandaries," forthcoming in John Hawthorne, Ted Sider, and Dean Zimmerman, eds., Contemporary Debates in Metaphysics, Oxford: Basil Blackwell. [Introduction]
3. "Judgment and Decision Making: Extrapolations and Applications," (penultimate draft/pdf), Judgments, Decisions, and Public Policy, R Gowda and Fox, eds., Cambridge University Press, 2001, pp. 9--35.
4. "Complex Predicates and Conversion Principles," reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual, 20, 1998; it originally appeared in Philosophical Studies, 87, 1997; 1--32. [Abstract]
5. "Relativism" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
6. "Properties" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
7. "Complex Predicates and Theories of Properties, Journal of Philosophical Logic, 27, 1998; 295-325. [Abstract]
8. "How Ontology Might be Possible: Explanation and Inference in Metaphysics," Midwest Studies in Philosophy, 23, 1999; 100-131. [abstract]
9. "Theories of Properties: From Plenitude to Paucity," Philosophical Perspectives, 10, 1996; 243-264. [Abstract]
10. "Leibniz on Intension and Extension," Noûs, 29, 1995; 96-114. [Abstract]
11. "Leibnizian Expression," Journal of the History of Philosophy, 33, 1995; 65-99. [Abstract]
12. "Logic and the Empirical Conception of Properties," Philosophical Topics, 21 1993; 199-231. [Abstract]
13. "Structural Representation and Surrogative Reasoning," Synthese, 87 1991; 449-508. [Abstract]
14. "The Metaphysics of Measurement," in Measurement, Realism and Objectivity, D. Reidel, 1987; 235-290. [Abstract]
15. "Causation and Identity," Midwest Studies in Philosophy: Causation and Causal Theories, 9, 1984; 593-622. [Abstract]
16. "The Nature of Natural Laws," Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 60, 1982; 203-223. Reprinted in Theory, Evidence and Explanation, Darthmouth Publishing Co., 1995. [Abstract]
17. "True For," in Cognitive Relativism, University of Notre Dame Press, 1982; 84-108.
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