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Herman Cappelen

Some Papers
  1. AI with Alien Content and Alien Metasemantics
    Forthcoming in L. Anderson and E. Lepore (Eds.), Oxford Handbook of Applied Philosophy of Language, Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Josh Dever).
  2. In Defense of Ordinary Language Philosophy
    Forthcoming in Metaphilosophy (with Matthew McKeever).
  3. On the Uselessness of the Distinction Between Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory (at least in Philosophy of Language)
    Forthcoming in J. Khoo and R. Sterken (Eds.), Routledge Companion to Social and Political Philosophy of Language, London and New York: Routledge (with Josh Dever).
  4. Acting Without Me: Corporate Agency and the First Person Perspective
    Forthcoming in H. Geirsson and S. Biggs (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of Linguistic Reference, London and New York: Routledge (with Josh Dever).
  5. Conceptual Engineering, Topics, Metasemantics, and Lack of Control: Responses to Sarah Sawyer, Laura Schroeter, Francois Schroeter, and Tim Sundell
    Forthcomming in Canadian Journal of Philosophy.
  6. Experimental Philosophy Without Intuitions: Machery-Style
    Forthcomming in Philosophical Studies.
  7. Assertion: A Defective Theoretical Category
    S. Goldberg (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Assertion, 2020, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  8. A Guided Tour of Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics
    A. Burgess, H. Cappelen and D. Plunkett (Eds.), Conceptual Ethics and Conceptual Engineering, 2019, Oxford: Oxford University Press (with David Plunkett).
  9. Conceptual Engineering: The Master Argument
    A. Burgess, H. Cappelen and D. Plunkett (Eds.), Conceptual Ethics and Conceptual Engineering, 2019, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  10. Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism applied to 'knows'
    J. Ichikawa (Ed.), Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism, 2019, London and New York: Routledge.
  11. Review of Avner Baz' 'The Crisis of Method in Contemporary Analytic Philosophy'
    Notre Dame Philosophical Review (with Max Deutsch).
  12. Review of José Bermúdez' 'Understanding 'I': Language and Thought'
    Notre Dame Philosophical Review (with Josh Dever).
  13. Action without the First Person Perspective
    Draft from October 2017 (with Josh Dever).
  14. Why Philosophers Shouldn’t Do Semantics
    Special issue of Review of Philosophy and Psychology 8 (4):743-762 (2017) (guest edited by Robyn Carston).
  15. Disagreement in philosophy: An optimistic perspective
    S. Overgaard and G. D’Oro (Eds.), Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, 2017, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  16. Empathy and Transformative Experiences without the First Person Point of View (a Reply to LA Paul)
    Inquiry, 60 (3): 315-336 (2017) (with Josh Dever).
  17. Relative Truth
    M. Glanzberg (Ed.), Oxford Handbook of Truth, 2018, Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Torfinn Huvenes).
  18. Replies to Boghossian, Brogaard and Richard
    Analytic Philosophy, 55 (4): 407-421 (2014):
  19. Replies to Weatherson, Chalmers, Weinberg and Bengson
    Philosophical Studies 171: 577–600 (2014):
  20. X-Phi Without Intuitions?
    A. Booth and D. Rowbottom (Eds.), Intuitions, 2014, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  21. Nonsense and Illusions of Thought
    Philosophical Perspectives, 27 (1):22-50 (2013)
  22. Replies to Lasersohn, MacFarlane, and Richard
    Philosophical Studies, 156: 449–466 (2011) (with John Hawthorne):
  23. Replies to Glanzberg, Soames, and Weatherson
    Analysis, 71, 2011, Symposium on Relativism and Monadic Truth (with John Hawthorne)
  24. Against Assertion
    J. Brown and H. Ceppelen (Eds.), Assertion, 2010, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  25. Assertion: An Introduction and Overview
    J. Brown and H. Ceppelen (Eds.), Assertion, 2010, Oxford: Oxford University Press. (with Jessica Brown)
  26. The Creative Interpeter: Content Relativism and Assertion
    Philosophical Perspectives 22: 23-46 (2008)
  27. Content Relativism
    M. Kolbel and M. Garcia-Carpintero (Eds.), Relative Truth, 2008, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  28. Semantics and Pragmatics: Some Central Issues
    G. Preyer and G. Peter (Eds.), Introduction to Context Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism: New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics, 2007, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  29. Relevance Theory and Shared Content
    N. Burton-Roberts (Ed.), Advances in Pragmatics, 2007, London: Palgrave Macmillian (with Ernie Lepore)
  30. The Myth of Unarticulated Constituents
    M. O'Rourke and C. Washington (Eds.), Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry, 2007, Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press (with Ernie Lepore)
  31. Locations and Binding
    Analysis, 67 (2): 95-105 (2007) (with John Hawthorne)
  32. Reply to Bach, Hawthorne, Korta & Perry, and Stainton
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 2007. Symposium on Insensitive Semantics. Reply to Kent Bach, John Hawthorne, Kepa Korta & John Perry, and Rob Stainton
  33. Propositional Skeletons and Disquotational Reports: Reply to Humberstone
    Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 2007
  34. Reply to Bezuidenhout, Gross, Recanati, Szabo, and Travis
    Mind and Language, 2006. Symposium on Insensitive Semantics. Reply to Ann Bezuidenhout, Steven Gross, Francois Recanati, Zoltan Szabo and Charles Travis. (with E.Lepore)
  35. Quotation, Context Sensitivity, Signs, and Expressions
    Philosophical Issues, Vol.16 : Philosophy of Language (Supplement to Nous), 2006. (with Ernie Lepore)
  36. Shared Content
    E. Lepore and B. Smith, eds, Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, 2006, Oxford: Oxford University Press (with Ernie Lepore)
  37. Pluralistic Skepticism
    Philosophical Perspectives, 19, Epistemology, 2005
  38. A Tall Tale: in Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act Pluralism
    G. Preyer and G. Peter (Eds.), Contextualism in Philosophy, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005 (with Ernie Lepore)
  39. Quotation
    Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (with Ernie Lepore)
  40. Radical and Moderate Pragmatics: Does Meaning Determine Truth Conditions?
    Z. Zsabo (Ed.), Semantics vs. Pragmatics, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. (with Ernie Lepore)
  41. Context Shifting Arguments
    Philosophical Perspectives, 17, Language and Philosophical Linguistics, Blackwell 2003 (with Ernie Lepore)
  42. Indexicality, Binding, Anaphora, and a Priori Truth
    Analysis, 2002 (with Ernie Lepore)
  43. Insensitive Quantifiers
    M. O'Rouke (Ed.), Truth and Meaning, 2001, Seven Bridges Press (with Ernie Lepore)
  44. Believing in Words
    Synthese, 2001, (with Josh Dever)
  45. Using, mentioning and quoting: A reply to Saka
    Mind, 108:432 1999 (with Ernie Lepore)
  46. Intentions in Words
    Noûs, 33:1 1999
  47. Reference Externalized and the Role of Intuitions in Semantic Theory
    American Philosophical Quarterly, 36:4 1999 (with Douglas Winblad)
  48. Reply to Richard and Reimer
    Mind & Language, 13:4 1998 (with Ernie Lepore)
  49. On an Alleged Connection Between Indirect Speech and The Theory of Meaning
    Mind and Language, 12:3/4 1997 (with Ernie Lepore)
  50. Varieties of Quotation
    Mind, 106:423, 1997, (with Ernie Lepore)