brian rabern
Journal articles.
American Philosophical Quarterly
(forthcoming) (w/ P. Todd) ::doi
The myth of occurrence-based semantics
Linguistics and Philosophy
(2021), 44: 813–837 (w/ B. Pickel) ::doi
Binding bound variables in epistemic contexts
Inquiry
(2021), 64 (5-6): 533-563, Operators vs Quantifiers ::doi
Philosophical Studies
(2021), 178 (8): 2687-2697 (w/ B. Pickel) ::doi
Future contingents and the logic of temporal omniscience
Noûs
(2021), 55(1): 102-127 (w/ P. Todd) ::doi
(2020), 39: 8-9 ::doi
Monsters and the theoretical role of context
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research
(2019), 98(2): 392-416 (w/ D. Ball) ::doi [ supplement ]
Against the Russellian open future
Mind
(2017), 126(504): 1217–1237 (w/ A. Schoubye) ::doi
A bridge from semantic value to content
Philosophical Topics
(2017), 45(2): 181-207 ::doi
Does semantic relationism solve Frege's puzzle?
Journal of Philosophical Logic
(2017), 46 (1): 97-118 (w/ B. Pickel) ::doi
The antinomy of the variable: A Tarskian resolution
Journal of Philosophy
(2016), 113(3): 137-170 (w/ B. Pickel) ::doi
The history of the use of ⟦.⟧-notation in natural language semantics
Semantics and Pragmatics
(2016), 9:12 ::doi
Well-founding grounding grounding
Journal of Philosophical Logic
(2016), 45(4): 349-379 (w/ G. Rabin) ::doi
Descriptions which have grown capital letters
Mind & Language
(2015), 30(3): 292-319 ::doi
Two-dimensional semantics and the nesting problem
Analysis
(2014), 74(2): 210–224 (w/ D. Chalmers) ::doi
Dangerous reference graphs and semantic paradoxes
Journal of Philosophical Logic
(2013), 42(5): 727-765 (w/ L. Rabern & M. Macauley) ::doi
Monsters in Kaplan's logic of demonstratives
Philosophical Studies
(2013), 164(2): 393-404 ::doi
Propositions and multiple indexing
Thought
(2012), 1(2): 116-124 ::doi
Against the identification of assertoric content with compositional value
Synthese
(2012), 189(1): 75-96 ::doi
A simple solution to the hardest logic puzzle ever
Analysis
(2008), 68(298): 105-112 ( w/ L. Rabern) ::doi
The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Fall 2021 Edition, Edward N. Zalta (ed.)
(w/ N. Hall & W. Schwarz)
Routledge Handbook on Linguistic Reference
(2021): 515-532, Biggs & Geirsson (ed.)
Reviving the parameter revolution in semantics
The Science of Meaning : Oxford University Press
(2018): 138-171 (w/ B. Pickel & J. Dever)
Introduction to the science of meaning
The Science of Meaning : Oxford University Press
(2018): 1-45 (w/ D. Ball)
Index, context, and the content of knowledge
Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Contextualism
(2017): 465-479, Ichikawa, J. (ed.)
Volume and Encylopedia contributions.
Papers in progress.
Proper names in epistemic discourse,
for volume commemorating 50th anniversary of Kripke's Naming and Necessity (in progress)
Against Fregean quantification (under review)
Chess notation (in review)
Epistemic counterpart theory (in progress)
If counterfactuals were neg-raisers, conditional excluded middle wouldn’t be valid, for special issue of Synthese on indeterminacy, (w/ P. Todd)
Epistemic arguments for compatiblism (in progress)
Venn semantics (in progress)
Unpublished/unfinished
A formal semantics for Wittgenstein's builder language
Structural fixed-point theorems (w. L. Rabern),
Playing cards with Vizing's demon (w. L. Rabern),
In defense of the two question solution to the hardest logic puzzle ever (w. L. Rabern)
Compactness: From Gödel to Heine-Borel (w. L. Rabern and M. Macauley), arXiv:0808.0844
Books and edited volumes.
Essays on the metatheory of natural language semantics
Oxford University Press
(2018), edited w/ D. Ball
Proceedings of Sinn und Bedeutung 21
(2018)
co-edited w/ Cummins, Heycock, Rohde, and Truswell
(pdf)
(unfinished)
Philosophy, Psychology, and Language Sciences
University of Edinburgh
3 Charles St., Edinburgh
EH8 9AD, United Kingdom