Items where Author is "Collins, John"

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Collins, John (2024) The null hypothesis for fiction and logical indiscipline. Analytic Philosophy, 65 (2). pp. 131-144. ISSN 2153-960X

Collins, John (2024) Syntax, truth, and the fate of sentences. The Philosophical Quarterly, 74 (1). 125–144. ISSN 0031-8094

Collins, John (2023) Generative linguistics: ‘Galilean style’. Language Sciences, 100. ISSN 0388-0001

Collins, John (2023) Review of Georges Rey, Representation of language: Philosophical issues in a Chomskyan linguistics. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617

Collins, John (2023) Internalist priorities in a philosophy of words. Synthese, 201 (3). ISSN 0039-7857

Collins, John (2023) Copredication as Illusion. Journal of Semantics, 40 (2-3). pp. 359-389. ISSN 0167-5133

Collins, John (2022) Natural language quantification is not polysemous. Synthese, 200 (5). ISSN 0039-7857

Collins, John (2022) A plea for explanation. Manuscrito, 45 (2). pp. 217-229.

Collins, John (2021) The diversity of fiction and copredication: An accommodation problem. Erkenntnis, 86 (5). 1197–1223. ISSN 0165-0106

Collins, John (2021) A norm of aesthetic assertion and its semantic (in)significance. Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 64 (10). pp. 973-1003. ISSN 0020-174X

Collins, John (2020) Conjoining and the weak/strong quantifier distinction. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 20 (3). pp. 283-294. ISSN 0022-362X

Collins, John (2020) Conjoining meanings without losing our heads. Mind and Language, 35 (2). pp. 224-236. ISSN 0268-1064

Collins, John (2019) The dynamic lexicon in a truth-conditional framework; or how to have Your cake and eat it. Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 62 (3). pp. 326-343. ISSN 0020-174X

Collins, John (2018) The redundancy of the act. Synthese, 195 (8). 3519–3545. ISSN 0039-7857

Collins, John (2018) Genericity sans Gen. Mind and Language, 33 (1). 34–64. ISSN 0268-1064

Collins, John (2017) Is the generative conception of language Cartesian? Theoretical Linguistics, 43 (3-4). pp. 233-240. ISSN 1613-4060

Collins, John (2017) The Semantics and Ontology of The Average American. Journal of Semantics, 34 (3). 373–405. ISSN 0167-5133

Collins, John (2017) The copredication argument. Inquiry-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy, 60 (7). pp. 675-702. ISSN 0020-174X

Collins, John (2016) Putting syntax first: On convention and implicature in imagination and convention. Mind and Language, 31 (5). pp. 636-646. ISSN 0268-1064

Collins, John (2015) Genericity as a unitary psychological phenomenon: An argument from linguistic diversity. Ratio, 28 (4). pp. 369-394. ISSN 0034-0006

Collins, John (2015) Review of Jeffrey King et al., New Thinking about Propositions. The Philosophical Quarterly, 65 (261). pp. 842-845. ISSN 0031-8094

Collins, John (2015) Review of Jamin Asay, The Primitivist Theory of Truth. Analysis, 75 (3). pp. 525-527. ISSN 0174-4747

Collins, John (2014) Cutting it (too) fine. Philosophical Studies, 169 (2). pp. 143-172. ISSN 0031-8116

Collins, John (2013) The syntax of personal taste. Philosophical Perspectives, 27 (1). pp. 55-103. ISSN 1758-2245

Collins, John (2011) Review of Bernhard Weiss, How to Understand Language: A Philosophical Inquiry. The Philosophical Quarterly, 61 (244). pp. 648-650. ISSN 0031-8094

Collins, John (2011) Impossible words again: Or why beds break but not make. Mind and Language, 26 (2). pp. 234-260. ISSN 0268-1064

Collins, John (2011) Impossible Words (Again): Why Beds Make, but Not Make. Mind and Language, 26. pp. 234-260. ISSN 1468-0017

Collins, John (2011) Innateness, canalization, and the modality-independence of language: A reply to Griffiths and Machery. Philosophical Psychology, 24 (2). pp. 195-206. ISSN 0951-5089

Collins, John (2010) Review of Nicholas J. J. Smith, Vagueness and Degrees of Truth. The Philosophical Quarterly, 60 (239). pp. 422-424. ISSN 0031-8094

Collins, John (2010) How long can a sentence be and should anyone care? Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 10 (3). pp. 199-207.

Collins, John (2009) Methodology, not Metaphysics: Against Externalism. Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society (Supplementary Volume), 83 (1). pp. 53-69.

Collins, John (2009) A Question of Responsibility: Gödel, Postal, and Chomsky. Biolinguistics, 3. pp. 99-103. ISSN 1450-3417

Collins, John (2009) The limits of conceivability: logical cognitivism and the language faculty. Synthese, 171. pp. 175-194. ISSN 1573-0964

Collins, John (2009) The Perils of Content. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 9. pp. 259-289.

Collins, John (2008) Knowledge of Language Redux. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 7. pp. 3-42.

Collins, John (2008) A note on conventions and unvoiced syntax. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 8 (23). pp. 241-247.

Collins, John (2007) Meta-scientific eliminativism: A reconsideration of Chomsky's review of Skinner. British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 58. pp. 625-658. ISSN 1464-3537

Collins, John (2007) Syntax, More or Less. Mind, 116 (464). pp. 805-850. ISSN 1460-2113

Collins, John (2007) Linguistic competence without knowledge of language. Philosophy Compass, 2 (6). pp. 880-895.

Collins, John (2007) Review of Michael Devitt's Ignorance of Language. Mind, 116 (462). pp. 416-423. ISSN 0026-4423

Collins, John (2007) Review of Gerald Vision, Veritas: The Correspondence Theory and Its Critics. Mind, 116 (461). pp. 234-237. ISSN 0026-4423

Collins, John (2007) Review of Ruth Garrett Millikan, Language: A Biological Model. The Philosophical Quarterly, 57 (226). pp. 142-145. ISSN 0031-8094

Collins, John (2006) Proxytypes and Linguistic Nativism. Synthese, 153 (1). pp. 69-104. ISSN 1573-0964

Collins, John (2006) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: A Dialogue on the Philosophy and Methodology of Linguistics. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 6. pp. 471-505.

Collins, John (2006) Review of James McGilvray (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky. Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews. ISSN 1538-1617

Collins, John (2005) Nativism: In defence of a biological understanding. Philosophical Psychology, 18 (2). pp. 157-177. ISSN 1465-394X

Collins, John (2005) On the input problem for massive modularity. Minds and Machines, 15 (2). pp. 1-22. ISSN 1572-8641

Collins, John (2004) Faculty Disputes. Mind and Language, 19 (5). pp. 300-333. ISSN 0268-1064

Collins, John (2003) Horwich's Schemata meet Syntactic Structures. Mind, 112 (447). pp. 399-432. ISSN 1460-2113

Collins, John (2003) Expressions, Sentences, Propositions. Erkenntnis, 59 (2). pp. 233-262. ISSN 1572-8420

Collins, John (2003) Cowie on the Poverty of Stimulus. Synthese, 136 (2). pp. 159-190. ISSN 1573-0964

Collins, John (2003) Language: A Dialogue. Richmond Journal of Philosophy, 1 (5). pp. 20-25.

Collins, John (2002) Truth or Meaning? A Question of Priority. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 65 (3). pp. 497-536. ISSN 1933-1592

Collins, John (2002) Truth: An Elevation. American Philosophical Quarterly, 39 (4). pp. 325-341. ISSN 2152-1123

Collins, John (2002) On the very idea of a science forming faculty. Dialectica, 56 (2). pp. 125-151. ISSN 1746-8361

Collins, John (2002) Horwich’s Sting: Constitution and Composition. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 2 (5). pp. 213-288.

Collins, John (2002) On the Proposed Exhaustion of Truth. Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, 41 (4). pp. 653-679.

Collins, John (2001) Truth Conditions without Interpretation. Sorites, 13. pp. 52-72.

Collins, John (2000) Theory of mind, logical form and eliminativism. Philosophical Psychology, 13 (4). pp. 465-90. ISSN 0951-5089

Book Section

Rey, Georges and Collins, John (2023) Laws and Luck in Language:Problems with Devitt’s Conventional, Common-Sense Linguistics. In: Linguistic Luck. Oxford University Press, pp. 88-123. ISBN 9780192845450

Collins, John (2022) Chomsky, Cognizing, and Tacit Knowledge. In: The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy and Implicit Cognition. Routledge. ISBN 9780367857189

Collins, John (2021) Internalist Perspectives on Language. In: The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language. Cambridge University Press, pp. 157-173. ISBN 9781108698283

Collins, John (2021) Chomsky and the Analytical Tradition. In: A Companion to Chomsky. Wiley, pp. 393-403. ISBN 978-1-119-59870-1

Collins, John (2021) Chomsky and Intentionality. In: A Companion to Chomsky. Wiley, pp. 488-502. ISBN 9781119598701

Collins, John (2021) Chomsky's Problem/Mystery Distinction. In: A Companion to Chomsky. Wiley, pp. 557-566. ISBN 978-1-119-59870-1

Collins, John (2020) Quine on Ontological Commitment in Light of Predicate-Functor Logic. In: Quine, Structure, and Ontology. Oxford University Press, pp. 56-81. ISBN 9780198864288

Collins, John (2020) Semantic and Syntactic Intuitions: Two Sides of the Same Coin. In: Linguistic Intuitions. Oxford University Press, pp. 89-108. ISBN 9780198840558

Collins, John (2020) Invariance as the Mark of the Psychological Reality of Language. In: Language and Reality from a naturalistic Perspective: Themes from Michael Devitt. Philosophical Studies Series . Springer, pp. 7-44. ISBN 978-3-030-47640-3

Collins, John (2020) The Linguistic and Philosophical Status of ‘Impossible Words’. In: The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Semantics. Wiley.

Collins, John (2018) Perceiving Language: Issues between Travis and Chomsky. In: Philosophy of Charles Travis. Oxford University Press, pp. 155-180. ISBN 9780198783916

Collins, John and Dobler, Tamara (2018) The Work of Charles Travis: a Contemporary Overview. In: The Philosophy of Charles Travis. Oxford University Press, pp. 1-27. ISBN 9780198783916

Collins, John (2017) Faculties and Modules: Chomsky on Cognitive Architecture. In: The Cambridge Companion to Chomsky. Cambridge University Press, pp. 217-234. ISBN 9781316716694

Collins, John (2017) On the Linguistic Status of Context Sensitivity. In: A Companion to the Philosophy of Language. Wiley. ISBN 9781118974711

Collins, John (2017) On the Linguistic Status of Predication. In: Understanding Predication. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, pp. 17-46.

Collins, John (2015) Naturalism without metaphysics. In: Experimental Philosophy, Rationalism, and Naturalism. Routledge, pp. 85-109. ISBN 9781138887282

Fischer, Eugen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-1610 and Collins, John (2015) Rationalism and Naturalism in the Age of Experimental Philosophy. In: Experimental Philosophy, Rationalism and Naturalism. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-1-13-888728-2

Collins, John (2015) Language and Truth, Natural and Formal. In: Unifying the Philosophy of Truth. Springer, pp. 85-107. ISBN 978-94-017-9672-9

Collins, John (2014) The Nature of Linguistic Variables. In: Oxford Handbooks Online. Oxford University Press.

Collins, John (2014) Representations without Representa: Content and Illusion in Linguistic Theory. In: Semantics and Beyond: Philosophical and Linguistic Inquiries. De Gruyter, pp. 27-64. ISBN 9783110354386

Collins, John (2011) Chomsky. In: Philosophy of Language: The Key Thinkers. Continuum, London, pp. 159-178.

Collins, John (2010) Compendious Assertion and Natural Language (Generalized) Quantification. In: New Waves in Philosophy: Truth. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 81-96.

Collins, John (2009) Port-Royal logic. In: Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 163-164. ISBN 978-074862618-2

Collins, John (2009) Private language. In: Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language. Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, pp. 179-180. ISBN 978-074862618-2

Collins, John (2009) Naturalism in the philosophy of language; or why there is no such thing as language. In: New Waves in Philosophy: Philosophy of Language. Palgrave Macmillan, London, pp. 41-59. ISBN 9780230224360

Collins, John (2007) Declarative Thought and Truth-Aptness. In: Truth and Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language. Routledge, pp. 157-177. ISBN 041540651X

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Collins, John (2020) Linguistic Pragmatism and Weather Reporting. Oxford University Press, UK. ISBN 978-0-19-885113-4

Fischer, Eugen ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2088-1610 and Collins, John (2015) Experimental Philosophy, Rationalism, and Naturalism:Rethinking Philosophical Method. Routledge, London. ISBN 978-1-13-888728-2

Collins, John (2011) The Unity of Linguistic Meaning. Oxford University Press, Oxford.

Collins, John (2008) Chomsky: A guide for the Perplexed. London: Continuum.