Michael Devitt

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Michael Devitt is affiliated with the following schools: Harvard University, University of Maryland, College Park, University of Nottingham, University of Sydney

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#1943

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According to Wikipedia, Michael Devitt is an Australian philosopher currently teaching at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in New York City. His primary interests include philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, metaphysics and epistemology. His current work involves the philosophy of linguistics, foundational issues in semantics, the semantics of definite descriptions and demonstratives, semantic externalism, and scientific realism.

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Michael Devitt's Published Works

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Published Works

Realism and Truth. (1995) (541)
Language And Reality (1987) (394)
Language and reality: An introduction to the philosophy of language (1987) (294)
Ignorance of Language (2006) (273)
Resurrecting Biological Essentialism* (2008) (272)
Coming to our Senses (1995) (261)
“OSTRICH NOMINALISM” OR “MIRAGE REALISM”? (1980) (133)
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language (2006) (103)
Coming to our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism (1995) (101)
Intuitions In Linguistics (2006) (99)
Methodology and the Nature of Knowing How (2011) (89)
Are Unconceived Alternatives a Problem for Scientific Realism? (2011) (78)
Experimental Semantics (2011) (62)
Language and Reality: An Introduction to Philosophy of Language (2nd ed) (1999) (62)
Whither Experimental Semantics? (2012) (60)
Naturalism and the A Priori (1998) (59)
Experimental Semantics: EXPERIMENTAL SEMANTICS (2011) (58)
A Narrow Representational Theory of the Mind (1989) (51)
Rigid Application (2005) (50)
Referential Descriptions and Conversational Implicatures (2007) (47)
LINGUISTICS: WHAT'S WRONG WITH "THE RIGHT VIEW" (1989) (46)
Against Direct Reference (1989) (46)
Donnellan's Distinction1 (1981) (45)
Should Proper Names Still Seem So Problematic (2015) (43)
Defending Ignorance of Language: Responses to the Dubrovnik Papers (2006) (38)
Species Have (Partly) Intrinsic Essences (2010) (38)
Linguistic Intuitions Revisited (2010) (38)
The methodology of naturalistic semantics (1994) (38)
Putting Metaphysics First: Essays on Metaphysics and Epistemology (2010) (30)
TRANSCENDENTALISM ABOUT CONTENT (1990) (29)
Relying on Intuitions: Where Cappelen and Deutsch Go Wrong (2015) (27)
Explanation and Reality in Linguistics (2008) (27)
Dummett's anti-realism (1983) (26)
Realism and the Renegade Putnam: A Critical Study of Meaning and the Moral Sciences (1983) (26)
TRANSCENDING TRANSCENDENTALISM: A RESPONSE TO BOGHOSSIAN (1991) (26)
The Revival of ‘Fido’-Fido (1989) (25)
Precis of "Coming to Our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism" (1997) (24)
A Response to Collins’ Note on Conventions and Unvoiced Syntax (2008) (24)
Meanings and Psychology: A Response to Mark Richard (1997) (23)
The Reference of Proper Names: Testing Usage and Intuitions (2018) (22)
Aberrations of the realism debate (1991) (21)
What Makes a Property “Semantic”? (2013) (19)
What “Intuitions” are Linguistic Evidence? (2010) (18)
Incommensurability and the Priority of Metaphysics (2001) (18)
No Place for the A Priori (2009) (17)
Methodology in the Philosophy of Linguistics (2008) (17)
The Myth of the Problematic De Se (2013) (16)
A CRITIQUE OF THE CASE FOR SEMANTIC HOLISM (1993) (16)
Thoughts and Their Ascription1 (1984) (15)
Is There a Place for Truth-Conditional Pragmatics? (2013) (15)
Putting Metaphysics First (2009) (14)
Deference and the Use Theory (2011) (14)
Semantic epistemology: response to Machery (2012) (14)
Historical biological essentialism. (2018) (14)
Underdetermination and Realism (2002) (13)
Semantics and the Ambiguity of Proper Names (1976) (13)
Stirring the Possum: Responses to the Bianchi Papers (2020) (11)
Three Methodological Flaws of Linguistic Pragmatism (2013) (11)
Lest Auld Acquaintance Be Forgot (2014) (11)
A shocking idea about meaning (2001) (11)
The Metaphysics of Truth (2009) (11)
Moral realism : A naturalistic perspective (2002) (11)
Linguistic Intuitions are not the Voice of Competence (2013) (10)
Natural Kinds and Biological Realisms (2009) (10)
Realism/Anti-Realism (2013) (10)
Worldmaking made hard : Rejecting global response dependency (2006) (10)
On Determining What There Isn't (2009) (10)
Still Against Direct Reference (2012) (9)
The Role Of Intuitions (2012) (9)
Semantic polysemy and psycholinguistics (2021) (9)
Individual essentialism in biology (2018) (9)
Defending Intrinsic Biological Essentialism (2020) (9)
Coming to Our Senses: A Naturalistic Program for Semantic Localism. (1998) (9)
Realism and Semantics (1983) (8)
Good and Bad Bach (2013) (8)
Localism and Analyticity (1993) (6)
Psychological Conception, Psychological Reality: A Response to Longworth and Slezak (2009) (6)
Meaning and Use (2002) (6)
Brian Loar on singular terms (1980) (6)
The Metaphysics of Deflationary Truth (2001) (6)
Minimalist Truth: A Critical Notice of Paul Horwich's Truth* (1991) (5)
Overlooking Conventions (2021) (5)
THE METAPHYSICS OF NONFACTUALISM (1996) (5)
On Determining Reference (1997) (4)
Responses to the Rijeka Papers (2006) (4)
Linguistic intuitions again (2020) (4)
A Naturalistic Defence of Realism (2018) (4)
ACP Updates Guideline on Oral Pharmacologic Treatments for Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (2013) (3)
BUENOS AIRES SYMPOSIUM ON RIGIDITY: RESPONSES (2009) (3)
Rorty's Mirrorless World (1988) (3)
AAP Expands Recommendations on SIDS and Other Sleep-Related Deaths (2012) (3)
Suspension of judgment: A response to Heidelberger on Kaplan (1976) (3)
Sub-Sententials: Pragmatics or Semantics? (2021) (3)
ON REMOVING PUZZLES ABOUT BELIEF ASCRIPTION (1990) (3)
Three Mistakes About Semantic Intentions (2021) (3)
Linguistic Intuitions and Cognitive Penetrability (2014) (3)
ACCF and AHA Update Guidelines on the Diagnosis and Treatment of Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (2012) (3)
AAN, AANEM, and AAPMR Publish Guideline for Treatment of Painful Diabetic Neuropathy (2012) (3)
21 REALISM / ANTI-REALISM (2007) (3)
Naturalistic Representation (1991) (2)
The “Linguistic Conception” of Grammars (2013) (2)
Responding to a hatchet job Ludlow's review of ignorance of language (2013) (2)
Testing the Reference of Biological Kind Terms (2021) (2)
Realism without truth: a response to Bertolet (1988) (2)
The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Language: Devitt/Philosophy (2008) (2)
ACR Publishes Guidelines for Pharmacologic and Nonpharmacologic Treatment of Gout (2013) (2)
A methodological flaw? A reply to Korta and Perry (2019) (2)
Representations and realism (1991) (2)
Diagnosis of Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: Recommendations from the ACP (2013) (2)
PIDS and IDSA issue management guidelines for community-acquired pneumonia in infants and young children. (2012) (2)
Reference, Theories of (2006) (1)
Putting metaphysics first : A response to James Tomberlin (1998) (1)
Syntax, functionalism, connectionism, and the language of thought (1993) (1)
We Don't Learn About the World by Examining Concepts (2014) (1)
Intuitions: Rijeka Response to Nenad Miščević (2018) (1)
The irrelevance of intentions to refer: demonstratives and demonstrations (2021) (1)
A Priori Convictions about Psychology: A Response to Sosa and Taylor (1997) (1)
The Pessimistic Meta-Induction. A Response to Jacob Busch (2006) (1)
Polysemy and Pragmatism’s Challenge (2021) (0)
Changing Our Logic: A Quinean Perspective (2023) (0)
The Rejection of Behaviorism (2006) (0)
Glossary Of Special Semantic Terminology (1981) (0)
The minimal role of the higher categories in biology (2022) (0)
Realism and Semantics Part II of a critical study of Midwest Studies in Philosophy V: Studies in Epistemology (Minneapolis, MN: University of Minnesota Press, 1980), 568 pp., $35.00 (cloth), $15.00 (paper). (2016) (0)
Some Possible Positions on Psychological Reality (2006) (0)
A Grammar as a Theory of Linguistic Reality (2006) (0)
A Tribute to Professor Fred C. Zacharias (2011) (0)
Coming to Our Senses: A Critique of the Case for Semantic Holism (1995) (0)
The Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction (2021) (0)
Reliance on Intuitions (2021) (0)
Speaker Meanings and Intentions (2021) (0)
Saturation and Pragmatism’s Challenge (2021) (0)
Acupuncture May Break Cycle of Urinary Tract Infections (2019) (0)
A shocking idea about meaning. Author's reply (2001) (0)
Qualified Appraisals and Qualified Appraisers: Expert Tax Valuation Witness Reports, Testimony, Procedure, Law, and Perspective (2017) (0)
Eliminativism and Revisionism (1995) (0)
Global Response Dependency and Worldmaking (2009) (0)
Is Cultural Variation a Red Herring ? (2012) (0)
Chapter 5: A Causal Theory Of Designation (2) (1981) (0)
Management of Stable Ischemic Heart Disease: Recommendations from the ACP (2013) (0)
Individual essentialism in biology (2018) (0)
Coming to Our Senses: Meanings and Their Ascription (1995) (0)
Linguistic Conventions and Language (2021) (0)
A Case for Semantic Localism (1995) (0)
The Myth of the Problematic (2013) (0)
THE “NO-MIRACLES ARGUMENT” DOES NOT COMMIT THE BASE-RATE FALLACY In Many Faces of Philosophy: A Festschrift for Michael Devitt's 80 B. Borstner and T. Todorović (eds.) (forthcoming) (2019) (0)
WE DON’T LEARN ABOUT THE WORLD BY EXAMINING CONCEPTS: A RESPONSE TO CARRIE JENKINS In Current Controversies in Epistemology, ed (2014) (0)
Michael Devitt The “ Linguistic Conception ” of Grammars (2013) (0)
BUENOS AIRES SYMPOSIUM ON DEFINITE DESCRIPTIONS:RESPONSES (2009) (0)
Chapter 8: Modal Contexts (1981) (0)
A RESPONSE TO GROSS AND REY In Linguistic Intuitions : Evidence and Method (2021) (0)
Some Actual Positions on Psychological Reality (2006) (0)
Reference and Misdescription (2011) (0)
24~~ ~~~n A ~PHILOSOPHICAL ISSUES, 8 (2016) (0)
Underdetermination and Commonsense Realism (2009) (0)
Acupuncture "Clinically Useful" for Morning Sickness (2010) (0)
The irrelevance of intentions to refer: demonstratives and demonstrations (2021) (0)
Chapter 6: Empty Terms (1981) (0)
Coming to Our Senses: Introduction (1995) (0)
A Case for the Psychological Reality of Language (2006) (0)
Reflections on Naming and Necessity (2021) (0)
What is Not : The Semantics / Pragmatics Interface (2014) (0)
Referential Descriptions: A Case Study (2021) (0)
Still against direct reference In Prospects for Meaning (2012) (0)
A SHOCKINGIDEA ABOUT MEANING (2016) (0)
Thought and the Language Faculty (2006) (0)
Confusion of the Metaphysics of Meaning with the Epistemology of Interpretation (2021) (0)
Qigong for Drug Addiction Researchers Tout Therapy as " Safe , Economical and Effective " (2019) (0)
MICHAEL DEVITT NATURALISM AND THE A PRIORI (1998) (0)
Modified Occam’s Razor and Meaning Denialism (2021) (0)
Antebellum Acupuncture: Healing with Needles in Pre-Civil War South Carolina (2015) (0)
Chiropractic May Help Relieve Angina Pectoris (2020) (0)
ACR Issues Recommendations on Therapies for Osteoarthritis of the Hand, Hip, and Knee (2013) (0)
Improper Deportation of Legal Permanent Residents: The U.S. Government’s Mischaracterization of the Supreme Court’s Decision in Nijhawan v. Holder (2013) (0)
Thought Before Language (2006) (0)
AHA/ASA publish advisory on oral antithrombotics for stroke prevention in nonvalvular artial fibrillation. (2013) (0)
Bach and Neale on “What Is Said” (2021) (0)

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