Vagueness and the Sorites

2021. ‘Intuitionism and the Sorites Paradox’. In The Riddle of Vagueness: Selected Essays 1975-2020, edited by Crispin Wright. Oxford University Press. [.pdf]

2019. ‘Intuitionism and the Sorites Paradox’. In The Sorites Paradox, edited by Sergi Oms and Elia Zardini. Cambridge University Press. [.pdf]

2016. ‘On the Characterisation of Borderline Cases’. In Meanings and Other Things: Essays on Stephen Schiffer, edited by Gary Ostertag. MIT Press. [.pdf]

2010. ‘The Illusion of Higher-order Vagueness’. In Cuts and Clouds, edited by Richard Dietz and Sebastiano Morruzzi. Oxford University Press. [.pdf]

2007. ‘Wang’s Paradox’. In The Philosophy of Michael Dummett, edited by Randall Auxier and Lewis Hahn. Open Court. [.pdf]

2006. ‘Vagueness-related Partial Belief and the Constitution of Borderline Cases’. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 73 (1): 225-32. (contribution to book symposium on Stephen Schiffer’s The Things We Mean). [.pdf]

2005. ‘Vagueness, Response Dependence and Rule-Following—Some Reflections’. In Issues on Vagueness, edited by Sebastiano Moruzzi and Andrea Sereni. Il Poligrafo. [.pdf]

2003. ‘Vagueness: A Fifth Column Approach’. In Liars & Heaps: New Essays on Paradox, edited by Jc Beall and Michael Glanzberg. Oxford University Press. [.pdf]

2003. ‘Rosenkranz on Quandary, Vagueness and Intuitionism’. Mind 112: 465-7. [.pdf]

2001. ‘On Being in a Quandary: Relativism, Vagueness, Logical Revisionism’. Mind 110: 45-98. (reprinted in The Philosopher’s Annual 24) [.pdf]

1995. ‘The Epistemic Conception of Vagueness’. Supplement to special number, The Southern Journal of Philosophy 33: 133-59. (proceedings of the 1994 Spindel Conference held at Memphis in October 1994) [.pdf]

1992. ‘Is Higher Order Vagueness Coherent’. Analysis 52: 129-39. [.pdf]

1989. ‘The Sorites Paradox and its Significance for the Interpretation of Semantic Theory’. In Recherches sur la Philosophie et le Langage. Imprimerie de la Bibliotheque Interuniversitaire et des Sciences Sociales de Grenoble. (reprinted with a new appendix on higher-order vagueness in Cooper, Neil and Engel, Pascal, eds. 1991. New Inquiries into Meaning and Truth. Harvester Wheatsheaf.)

1987. ‘Further Reflections on the Sorites Paradox’. Philosophical Topics, 15 (1): 227-90. (reprinted in Keefe, Rosanna and Smith, Peter, eds. 1996. Vagueness: A Reader. MIT Press.) [.pdf]

1986. ‘The Sorites Paradox’. Quaderni di Semantica 7 (2): 277-91.

(with Read, Stephen). 1985. ‘Hairier than Putnam Thought’. Analysis 45: 56-8. [.pdf]

1976. ‘Language-Mastery and the Sorites Paradox’. In Truth and Meaning , edited by Gareth Evans and John McDowell. Oxford University Press. (reprinted in Keefe, Rosanna and Smith, Peter, eds. 1996. Vagueness: A Reader. MIT Press.) [.pdf]

1975. ‘On the Coherence of Vague Predicates’. Synthese 30: 325-365.[.pdf]