Realism and Truth

2024. ‘Science Denial, Cognitive Command, and the Theory-Ladenness of Observation: A Postscript for a Time of “Post-Truth”‘. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 32 (1): 198-210. [.pdf]

2023. ‘Deflating Inflationism? Reflections on Douglas Edwards’ The Metaphysics of Truth’. Inquiry 66 (8): 1463-80. [.pdf]

2013. ‘A Plurality of Pluralisms’. In Truth Pluralism: Current Debates, edited by Nikolaj Pedersen and Cory Wright. Oxford University Press. [.pdf]

2012. ‘Meaning and Assertibility: Some Reflections on Paolo Casalegno’s ‘The Problem of Non-Conclusiveness”. Special number on the Philosophy of Paolo Casalegno, Dialectica 66 (2): 249-66. [.pdf]

2012. Part III of ‘Replies’. In Mind, Meaning and Knowledge: Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright, edited by Annalisa Coliva. Oxford University Press. [.pdf]

(with Hale, Bob). 2010. ‘Assertibilist Truth and Objective Content: Still Inexplicit?’. In Reading Brandom: Making It Explicit, edited by Bernhard Weiss and Jeremy Wanderer. Routledge. [.pdf]

2002. ‘What Could Anti-Realism About Ordinary Psychology Possibly Be?’. The Philosophical Review 111 (2): 205-33. [.pdf]

2001. ‘Minimalism, Deflationism, Pragmatism, Pluralism’. In The Nature of Truth: Classic and Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Michael Lynch. MIT Press. [.pdf]

2000. ‘Truth as Sort of Epistemic: Putnam’s Peregrinations’. The Journal of Philosophy 97 (6): 335-64. [.pdf]

1998. ‘Truth: A Traditional Debate Reviewed’. Supplement, Canadian Journal of Philosophy on Pragmatism 24: 31-74. (reprinted in Blackburn, Simon and Simmons, Keith, eds. 1999. Truth. Oxford University Press.; German version in Vogel, Matthias and Wingert, Lutz, eds. 1999. Unsere Welt: gegeben oder gemacht? Menschliches Erkennen zwischen Entdeckung und Konstruktion. Suhrkamp Verlag. [.pdf]

1998. ‘Euthyphronism and the Physicality of Colour’. Special number on Response-Dependence, European Review of Philosophy 3: 15-30.

1998. ‘Comrades against Quietism: Reply to Simon Blackburn on Truth and Objectivity‘. Mind 107: 183-203. [.pdf]

(with Hale, Bob). 1997. ‘Putnam’s Model-theoretic Argument Against Metaphysical Realism’. In A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, edited by Bob Hale and Crispin Wright. Wiley-Blackwell. [.pdf]

1996. ‘Response to Commentators’. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 56 (4): 911-41. (book précis on 863-8) [.pdf]

1995. ‘Can there be a Rationally Compelling Argument for Anti-realism about Ordinary (“Folk”) Psychology?’. Philosophical Issues 6: 197-221. (number containing the proceedings of the SOFIA conference on Content held at Lisbon in May 1994) [.pdf]

1995. ‘Truth and Coherence’. Synthese 103: 279-302. (critical study of Ralph C.S. Walker’s The Coherence Theory of Truth) [.pdf]

1994. ‘Realism, Pure and Simple?’. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 2: 147-61. (reply to Timothy Williamson’s critical study of Truth and Objectivity) [.pdf]

1994. ‘Response to Jackson’. Philosophical Books 35: 169-75. (reply to Frank Jackson’s critical study of Truth and Objectivity) [.pdf]

1993. ‘Eliminative Materialism: Going Concern or Passing Fancy?’. Mind and Language 8: 316-26. [.pdf]

1993. ‘Scientific Realism and Observation Statements’. In Science and Subjectivity: The Vienna Circle and Twentieth Century Philosophy, edited by David Bell and Wilhelm Vossenkuhl. Akademie Verlag. (reprinted in 1993. International Journal of Philosophical Studies 1: 231-54; slightly shortened version reprinted in Italian as 1995. ‘Il realismo scientifico e gli asserti osservativi’. In Realismo/Antirealismo: Aspetti del Dibattito Epistemologico Contemporaneo, edited by Alessando Pagnini. La Nuova Italia.) [.pdf]

1993. ‘Anti-realism: the Contemporary Debate – Whither Now?’. In Reality: Representation and Projection, edited by John Haldane and Crispin Wright. Oxford University Press. [.pdf]

1993. ‘On an Argument on Behalf of Classical Negation’. Mind 102: 123-31. [.pdf]

1992. ‘Wohin führt die aktuelle Realismusdebatte?’. In Realismus und Antirealismus, edited by Wolfgang Kohler. Suhrkamp Verlag.

1989. ‘The Verification Principle – Another Puncture, Another Patch’. Mind 98: 611-22. [.pdf]

1989. ‘Misconstruals Made Manifest, a Response to Simon Blackburn’. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 14: 48-67. [.pdf]

1988. ‘Realism, Anti-Realism, Irrealism, Quasi-Realism’. Midwest Studies in Philosophy 12: 25-49. (1987 Gareth Evans Memorial Lecture on Realism and Anti-Realism; reprinted in Kim, Jaegwon and Sosa, Ernest, eds. 1999. Metaphysics: An Anthology. Wiley-Blackwell. [.pdf]

1986. ‘Scientific Realism, Observation and the Verification Principle’. In Fact, Science and Morality, edited by Graham MacDonald and Crispin Wright. Wiley-Blackwell.

1985. Review of Simon Blackburn’s Spreading the Word: Groundings in the Philosophy of Language. Mind 94: 310-19. [.pdf]

1984. ‘Second Thoughts about Criteria’. Synthese 58: 383-405. [.pdf]

1982. ‘Anti-realist Semantics: the role of Criteria’. Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series 13: 225-48. [.pdf]

1980. ‘Realism, Truth-value links, Other Minds and the Past’. In Papers on Language and Logic, edited by Jonathan Dancy. Keele University Library. (reprinted in 1980. Ratio, 22: 112-32.

1979. ‘Strawson on Anti-Realism’. Synthese 40: 283-99. [.pdf]

1978. Review of Samuel Guttenplan’s Mind and Language: Wolfson College Lectures 1974. Journal of Literary Semantics 7(2): 99-107. [.pdf]

1976. ‘Truth-Conditions and Criteria’. Supplement, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 50: 217-45. (reply to Roger Scruton. [.pdf]