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  1. Descriptions.Stephen Neale - 1990 - MIT Press.
    When philosophers talk about descriptions, usually they have in mind singular definite descriptions such as ‘the finest Greek poet’ or ‘the positive square root of nine’, phrases formed with the definite article ‘the’. English also contains indefinite descriptions such as ‘a fine Greek poet’ or ‘a square root of nine’, phrases formed with the indefinite article ‘a’ (or ‘an’); and demonstrative descriptions (also known as complex demonstratives) such as ‘this Greek poet’ and ‘that tall woman’, formed with the demonstrative articles (...)
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  2. Paul Grice and the philosophy of language.Stephen Neale - 1992 - Linguistics and Philosophy 15 (5):509 - 559.
    The work of the late Paul Grice (1913–1988) exerts a powerful influence on the way philosophers, linguists, and cognitive scientists think about meaning and communication. With respect to a particular sentence φ and an “utterer” U, Grice stressed the philosophical importance of separating (i) what φ means, (ii) what U said on a given occasion by uttering φ, and (iii) what U meant by uttering φ on that occasion. Second, he provided systematic attempts to say precisely what meaning is by (...)
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  3. Facing Facts.Stephen Neale - 2001 - Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    This book is an original examination of attempts to dislodge a cornerstone of modern philosophy: the idea that our thoughts and utterances are representations ...
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  4. This, That, and the Other.Stephen Neale - 2004 - In Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout (eds.), Descriptions and beyond. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 68-182.
     
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  5. The Philosophical Significance of Gödel’s Slingshot.Stephen Neale - 1995 - Mind 104 (416):761-825.
  6. Term limits.Stephen Neale - 1993 - Philosophical Perspectives 7:89-123.
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  7. Coloring and composition.Stephen Neale - 1999 - In Philosophy and Linguistics. Boulder: Westview Press. pp. 35--82.
    The idea that an utterance of a basic (nondeviant) declarative sentence expresses a single true-or-false proposition has dominated philosophical discussions of meaning in this century. Refinements aside, this idea is less of a substantive theses than it is a background assumption against which particular theories of meaning are evaluated. But there are phenomena (noted by Frege, Strawson, and Grice) that threaten at least the completeness of classical theories of meaning, which associate with an utterance of a simple sentence a truth-condition, (...)
     
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  8. Silent Reference.Stephen Neale - 2016 - In Gary Ostertag (ed.), Meanings and Other Things: Themes From the Work of Stephen Schiffer. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
     
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  9. A Century Later.Stephen Neale - 2005 - Mind 114 (456):809-871.
    This is the introductory essay to a collection commemorating the 100th anniversary of the publication in Mind of Bertrand Russell’s paper ‘On Denoting’.
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  10. On being explicit comments on Stanley and Szabo, and on Bach.Stephen Neale - 2000 - Mind and Language 15 (2-3):284–294.
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  11. Descriptive pronouns and donkey anaphora.Stephen Neale - 1990 - Journal of Philosophy 87 (3):113-150.
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    Heavy Hands, Magic, and Scene-Reading Traps.Stephen Neale - 2007 - European Journal of Analytic Philosophy 3 (2):77-132.
    This is one of a series of articles in which I examine errors that philosophers of language may be led to make if already prone to exaggerating the rôle compositional semantics can play in explaining how we communicate, whether by expressing propositions with our words or by merely implying them. In the present article, I am concerned less with “pragmatic contributions” to the propositions we express—contributions some philosophers seem rather desperate to deny the existence or ubiquity of—than I am with (...)
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  13. Philosophy and Linguistics.Stephen Neale - 1999 - Boulder: Westview Press.
  14. 10 On Location.Stephen Neale - 2005 - In Michael O'Rourke & Corey Washington (eds.), Situating Semantics: Essays on the Philosophy of John Perry. MIT Press. pp. 251.
     
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    On a Milestone of empiricism.Stephen Neale - 2000 - In Alex Orenstein & Petr Kotatko (eds.), Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Print on Demand. pp. 237--346.
  16. Term limits revisited.Stephen Neale - 2008 - Philosophical Perspectives 22 (1):375-442.
  17. Demonstratives.Palle Yourgrau, David F. Austin & Stephen Neale - 1994 - Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 54 (4):947-963.
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  18. (1 other version)Pragmatism and Binding.Stephen Neale - 2004 - In Zoltan Gendler Szabo (ed.), Semantics Versus Pragmatics. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK. pp. 165--185.
    Names, descriptions, and demonstratives raise well-known logical, ontological, and epistemological problems. Perhaps less well known, amongst philosophers at least, are the ways in which some of these problems not only recur with pronouns but also cross-cut further problems exposed by the study in generative linguistics of morpho-syntactic constraints on interpretation. These problems will be my primary concern here, but I want to address them within a general picture of interpretation that is required if wires are not to be crossed. That (...)
     
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  19. Slingshots and boomerangs.Stephen Neale & Josh Dever - 1997 - Mind 106 (421):143-168.
    A “slingshot” proof suggested by Kurt Gödel (1944) has been recast by Stephen Neale (1995) as a deductive argument showing that no non-truthfunctional sentence connective can permit the combined use, within its scope, of two truth-functionally valid inference principles involving defi- nite descriptions. According to Neale, this result provides indirect support for Russell’s Theory of Descriptions and has broader philosophical repercussions because descriptions occur in non-truth-functional constructions used to motivate talk about (e.g.) necessity, time, probability, causation, obligation, facts, states of (...)
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    Events and “logical form”.Stephen Neale - 1988 - Linguistics and Philosophy 11 (3):303 - 321.
  21. Implicature and colouring.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Giovanna Cosenza (ed.), Paul Grice's Heritage. Brepols Publishers. pp. 135--180.
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    Pronouns and Anaphora.Stephen Neale - 2006 - In Michael Devitt & Richard Hanley (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 335--373.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Introduction Pronouns and Variables Anaphoric Pronouns in Generative Grammar Phonetic Form and Logical Form Binding and Scope The Binding Theory Aphonic Pronouns Pronouns as Determiners A Unified Account of Binding Bound and Free Discourse Anaphora Unselective Binding and Donkey Problems Notes.
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  23. Abbreviation, Scope, Ontology.Stephen Neale - 2002 - In Gerhard Preyer & Georg Peter (eds.), Logical Form and Language. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press.
     
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    Genre.Stephen Neale - 1980 - BFI Publishing.
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    What is logical form?Stephen Neale - 1994 - In Dag Prawitz & Dag Westerståhl (eds.), Logic and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala: Papers From the 9th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht, Netherland: Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 583--598.
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  26. Indefinite descriptions: In defense of Russell. [REVIEW]Peter Ludlow & Stephen Neale - 1991 - Linguistics and Philosophy 14 (2):171 - 202.
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    Gramatická forma, logická forma a neúplné symboly.Stephen Neale - 2005 - Organon F: Medzinárodný Časopis Pre Analytickú Filozofiu 11 (3):294-334.
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    Papers from the 1993 Joint Session: The Place of Language.Michael Morris & Stephen Neale - 1994 - Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 94 (1):215-228.
    Michael Morris, Stephen Neale; Papers from the 1993 Joint Session: The Place of Language, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 94, Issue 1, 1 June 19.
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    (1 other version)The Place of Language.Michael Morris & Stephen Neale - 1993 - Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 67 (1):153-174.
    This paper attempts to raise a question for the everyday view that language is a means of communication, a system of marks or sounds which we use to convey thoughts and describe the world. It first isolates the assumptions behind this everyday view before raising questions about them.
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    Description and Equivalence.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Revolves around the matter of whether the stronger results that W. V. Quine and Donald Davidson were attempting to derive from slingshot arguments over facts might be forthcoming if other theories of descriptions were assumed. This also provides an opportunity to evaluate various theories as potential competitors to Bertrand Russell's theory. The four sections of the chapter are: Introductory Remarks; Hilbert and Bernays ; Fregean Theories ; and Strawsonian Theories.
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  31. ‘Denotowanie’ Russella: wiek później (tłum. Michał Sala).Stephen Neale - 2010 - Przeglad Filozoficzny - Nowa Seria 75.
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    Davidson: Truth and Correspondence.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Discusses the philosophy of Donald Davidson, who appears to have brought the slingshot argument to the current prominence within philosophical discussions. It examines Davidson's semantic programme, the relation between semantics and ontology that he champions, his arguments against facts and the scheme–content distinction, and the ways in which he and Richard Rorty assail the notion of representation. The chapter is arranged in nine parts: Introductory Remarks; Meaning and Truth; Reference and Ontology; Content and Other Complications; Facts and Correspondence; The Great (...)
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    Extensionality.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Chs. 6 and 7 set out and clean the formal tools that are needed in the remaining chapters to prove that Donald Davidson's and Richard Rorty's cases against facts and the representation of facts are unfounded, and their slingshot arguments for discrediting the existence of facts unsatisfactory. Clarifies what is meant by such terms as ‘extensions’, ‘extensionality’ and ‘scope’, and the next separates various inference principles. The four sections of the chapter are: Extensions and Sentence Connectives; Scope; Extensional and Non‐Extensional (...)
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    Facts Revisited.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    With the Descriptive Constraint discussed in Ch. 9 at hand, Ch. 11 examines diverse theories of facts with a view to establishing how viable they are, and then turns to claims about the semantics of causal statements that have been used to motivate ontologies of facts and events. Neale makes the point that there is considerable confusion in the literature on the matter of whether causal statements are extensional, but shows that once the clarifications effected in earlier chapters are brought (...)
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    Frege: Truth and Composition.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Looks at the work of Gottlob Frege on truth and composition. It investigates Frege's idea that a sentence refers to a truth‐value, his Principle of Composition, and his abandonment of what Donald Davidson calls ‘semantic innocence’. Neale explains what kinds of slingshotian considerations prevented Frege from accepting facts as denotations of sentences and made him see sentences rather as names of truth‐values. The three sections of the chapter are: Reference and Composition; Innocence Abandoned; and The Reference of a Sentence.
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  36. Grain and content.Stephen Neale - 1998 - Philosophical Issues 9:353-358.
    lt is widely held that entertaining a belief or forming a judgement involves the exercise of conceptual capacities; and to this extent the representational content of a belief or judgement is said to be "con— ceptual". According to Gareth Evans (1980), not all psychological states have conceptual content in this sense. In particular, perceptual states have non—conceptual content; it is not until one forms a judgement on the basis of a perceptual experience that one touches the realm of conceptual content.
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    Gödelian Equivalence.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Chs. 9 convert the two basic forms of slingshot argument—one used by Alonzo Church, W. V. Quine, and Donald Davidson, the other by Kurt Gödel—into knock‐down deductive proofs that Donald Davidson's and Richard Rorty's cases against facts and the representation of facts are unfounded, and their slingshot arguments for discrediting the existence of facts unsatisfactory. The proofs are agnostic on key semantic issues; in particular, they assume no particular account of reference and do not even assume that sentences have references. (...)
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    Gödel: Facts and Descriptions.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Sets out Kurt Gödel's slingshot argument. The original argument—or, at least, the premisses of the argument that Neale attributes to Gödel—can be found in a fleeting footnote to a discussion of the relationship between Bertrand Russell's Theory of Descriptions and Theory of Facts. Usually each theory is viewed as quite independent of the other, but Gödel argues otherwise: that the viability of the latter depends upon the viability of the former. Neale summarizes Gödel's standpoint as follows: ‘if a true sentence (...)
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    H. P. Grice (1913–1988).Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Aloysius Martinich & David Sosa (eds.), A companion to analytic philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell. pp. 254–273.
    This chapter contains sections titled: Life Meaning, use, and ordinary language The theory of conversation Philosophical psychology The logic of natural language The theory of meaning Utterer's meaning Sentence meaning and saying.
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    Inference Principles.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Chs. 7 set out and clean the formal tools that are needed in the remaining chapters to prove that Donald Davidson's and Richard Rorty's cases against facts and the representation of facts are unfounded, and their slingshot arguments for discrediting the existence of facts unsatisfactory. The previous chapter clarified what is meant by such terms as ‘extensions’, ‘extensionality’ and ‘scope’, and this one separates various inference principles common in extensional logic. The six sections of the chapter are: Introductory Remarks; A (...)
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    Logical Equivalence.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Chs. 8 and 9 convert the two basic forms of slingshot argument—one used by Alonzo Church, W. V. Quine, and Donald Davidson, the other by Kurt Gödel—into knock‐down deductive proofs that Donald Davidson's and Richard Rorty's cases against facts and the representation of facts are unfounded, and their slingshot arguments for discrediting the existence of facts unsatisfactory. The proofs are agnostic on key semantic issues; in particular, they assume no particular account of reference and do not even assume that sentences (...)
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    La théorie des descriptions: passé et présent.Stephen Neale - 1990 - Hermes 7:63.
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    Meaning, Grammar, and Indeterminacy.Stephen Neale - 1987 - Dialectica 41 (4):301-319.
    SummaryIt is a mistake to think that Quine's thesis of the indeterminacy of translation reduces to the claim that théories are under‐determined by evidence. The theory of meaning is subject to an indeterminacy that is qualitatively different from the under‐determination of scientific théories. However, there is no reason to believe that the indeterminacy thesis extends beyond translation and meaning, and hence no construal of the thesis prevents one from being a realist about grammars, construed as partial théories of mind.
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    On one as an anaphor.Stephen Neale - 1989 - Behavioral and Brain Sciences 12 (2):353-354.
  45. Persistence and Polarity.Stephen Neale - 2000 - In Klaus von Heusinger & Urs Egli (eds.), Reference and Anaphoric Relations. Kluwer Academic Publishers.
     
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  46. Pragmatism and Pronouns.Stephen Neale - 2004 - In Zoltan Gendler Szabo (ed.), Semantics Versus Pragmatics. Oxford, GB: Oxford University Press UK.
     
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    Persistence, polarity, and plurality.Stephen Neale - 2000 - In Klaus von Heusinger & Urs Egli (eds.), Reference and Anaphoric Relations. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 147--153.
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    Russell: Facts and Descriptions.Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Examines the work of Bertrand Russell. It looks at Russell's idea that true sentences stand for facts and the philosophical and formal details of his Theory of Facts and Theory of Descriptions, both of which Neale describes as being poorly understood to this day. The six sections of the chapter are: Facts and their Parts; Representing Russellian Facts; The Theory of Descriptions; Abbreviation; Scope; Quantification and Notation. An appendix to the book looks further at Russell's definition of descriptions as incomplete (...)
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  49. Speaker's reference and anaphora.Stephen Neale - 1997 - In Dunja Jutronić (ed.), The Maribor papers in naturalized semantics. Maribor: Pedagoška fakulteta Maribor. pp. 202--14.
     
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    The End of Representation?Stephen Neale - 2001 - In Facing Facts. Oxford, England: Clarendon Press.
    Introduces the criticisms put forward by philosophers such as Donald Davidson and Richard Rorty to the idea that one thing might represent another: that thoughts, utterances, and inscriptions are said to have content by virtue of their power to represent reality; and that those that do the job accurately are true, they correspond to the facts, or mirror reality—they are representations of reality. The author then outlines the deductive proof that he will present in the book to show that Davidson's (...)
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