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Education
Ph.D., Rutgers (2007)
Research
News
- Watch a video essay by Koby Leff based on “Conventions of Viewpoint Coherence in Film”
Work in progress
- Notes on film semantics (joint work with R. Kelly and G. Greenberg):
- Temporal continuity
- Taxonomy of viewpoint constraints
- Salient angles
- Papers on reference
- What is reference?
- Reference and restriction
- How to not exist
- Paper on vagueness and open texture in predicate application
- Paper on content and indirect reports (for Oxford Handbook to Contemporary Philosophy of Language)
- Report and content
Research statement
Publications
Articles
In Press
- Structures of Morality and Allegiance in the Character Arc Story (with R. Kelly), conditionally accepted at the British Journal of Aesthetics
- Counterfactuals and Abduction (with L. Winans), forthcoming in Ergo
- Showing Seeing in Film (with G. Greenberg, E. Kaiser and R. Kelly), forthcoming in Ergo
- On An Alleged Ambiguity in Attitude Reports, forthcoming in a volume (OUP)
- Narrative and POV, forthcoming in a volume (OUP)
- The Attentional Foundations of Coherence, forthcoming in a volume
2020
- Definite Reports of Indefinites, in R. Goodman, J. Genone, N. Kroll, Singular Thought and Mental Files, Oxford: OUP (penultimate version)
2019
- Names, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
2017
- Conventions of Viewpoint Coherence in Film (with G. Greenberg and R. Kelly), Phil Imprint 17(1): 1-29
2016
- Review of Context by Robert Stalnaker, Mind 125 (497): 260-264
- Faithfulness and De Se (with Y. Sharvit), in Capone, Kiefer, Lo Piparo (eds.), Indirect Reports and Pragmatics, Dordrecht: Springer, pp. 489-506 (penultimate version)
2015
- The Dilemma of Indefinites, in A. Bianchi (ed.), On Reference, Oxford: OUP, pp. 335-349 (penultimate version)
2014
- Discourse Content, in A. Burgess & B. Sherman (eds.), Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning, Oxford: OUP, pp. 214-230 (penultimate version)
- Semantics for Nominalists, in Y. Jiang and E. Lepore (eds.), Language and Value, Protosociology Vol. 31
2013
- Creatures of Darkness, Analytic Phil. 54(4): 379-400 (penultimate version)
- From Coordination to Content, Phil. Imprint 13(4): 1-16
- Indefinites and Intentional Identity, Phil. Studies 168(2): 371-395 (penultimate version)
2008
- Variabilism, Phil. Review 117(4): 525-554 (penultimate version)
2003
- Two Accounts of Indexicals in Mixed Quotation, Belgian Journal of Linguistics 17: 77-88 (penultimate version)
Unpublished
Dissertations
2007
- Proper Nouns, Dissertation, Rutgers