Robert Stainton

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Robert Stainton is affiliated with the following schools: University of Western Ontario, York University, Carleton University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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According to Wikipedia, Robert Stainton is a Canadian philosopher/linguist and Distinguished University Professor at the University of Western Ontario. He is known for his works on the philosophy of language, cognitive science/philosophy of the mind, analytic metaphysics/philosophical logic, semantics and pragmatics. He is currently leading a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Insight Grant-funded project on The Metaphysics and Epistemology of Languages with Christopher Viger. He is also “a fanatical carp fisher,” as he told Outdoor Canada.

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Robert Stainton's Published Works

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Words and Thoughts: Subsentences, Ellipsis, and the Philosophy of Language (2006) (191)
Philosophy of Linguistics (2014) (149)
Contemporary debates in cognitive science (2006) (94)
Non-sentential assertions and semantic ellipsis (1995) (81)
Using Non-Sentences: An Application of Relevance Theory (1994) (67)
In Defense of Non-Sentential Assertion (2005) (64)
Quantifier Phrases, Meaningfulness “in Isolation”, and Ellipsis (1998) (56)
Utterance meaning and syntactic ellipsis (1997) (47)
Perspectives in the Philosophy of Language: A Concise Anthology (2000) (41)
The Pragmatics of Non-sentences (2004) (38)
Shorthand, Syntactic Ellipsis, and the Pragmatic Determinants of What Is Said (2004) (37)
Meaning and Reference: Some Chomskian Themes (2008) (34)
Pragmatic Abilities in Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Case Study in Philosophy and the Empirical (2007) (32)
Neither Fragments nor Ellipsis (2006) (30)
The Argument from Diaphanousness (2004) (30)
Full-On Stating (2016) (27)
Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech (2005) (27)
The semantics-pragmatics boundary in philosophy (2013) (26)
Cuasi-factivos (2016) (24)
WHAT ASSERTION IS NOT (1996) (24)
Review of Jerry A. Fodor's Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (2000) (23)
The Meaning of 'Sentences' (2000) (22)
Slurs and register: A case study in meaning pluralism (2020) (20)
Contextualism in Epistemology and the Context Sensitivity of 'Knows' (2010) (20)
Logical Form and the Vernacular (2001) (19)
Philosophical Perspectives on Language (1996) (19)
Can cognition be factorized into internal and external components (2006) (19)
Compositionality, Context and Semantic Values: Essays in Honour of Ernie Lepore (2009) (18)
Philosophy of Language (2010) (17)
Linguistic content : new essays on the history of philosophy of language (2015) (17)
Knowledge and Mind: A Philosophical Introduction (2000) (17)
Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics (2009) (16)
Interrogatives and Sets of Answers (1999) (14)
Null Complements: Licensed by Syntax or by Semantics-Pragmatics? (2005) (13)
The achilles of rationalist psychology (2008) (13)
Grasping Objects and Contents (2003) (12)
In defense of public languages (2011) (12)
Non-sentential assertions (1993) (12)
A Deranged Argument Against Public Languages (2016) (11)
On 'the Denial of Bivalence is Absurd' (2003) (11)
On Restricting the Evidence Base for Linguistics (2006) (8)
Dynamics of Meaning: Anaphora, Presupposition, and the Theory of Grammar , by Gennaro Chierchia (1995) (8)
Revisiting pragmatic abilities in autism spectrum disorders: A follow-up study with controls (2013) (7)
Clinical Pragmatics , by Louise Cummings (2010) (7)
REALLY INTRIGUING, THAT PRED NP! * (2006) (6)
Differential Pragmatic Abilities and Autism Spectrum Disorders: The Case of Pragmatic Determinants of Literal Content (2010) (6)
The Semantics and Syntax of Null Complements (2006) (6)
Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech (Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy) (2006) (6)
A Divide‐and‐Conquer Strategy (2006) (5)
Remarks on the Syntax and Semantics of Mixed Quotation 1 (2019) (5)
The Context Principle (2005) (4)
Introduction to Ellipsis and Non-Sentential Speech (2005) (4)
Philosophy and Linguistics (1999) (3)
Fodor's New Theory of Content and Computation (1997) (3)
Linguistic Prescriptivism (3)
The Contribution of Domain Specificity in the Highly Modular Mind (2010) (3)
The Syntax and Semantics of Mixed Quotation (1999) (3)
The Role of Psychology (2012) (3)
Jerry A. Fodor, Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (2000) (3)
Varieties of Empiricism (2002) (3)
Re-reading Anscombe on ‘I’ (2019) (3)
Unembedded definite descriptions and relevance (1998) (3)
Quotation: Compositionality and Innocence without Demonstration (2005) (3)
The Molecular Sememe: A Model for Literary Interpretation (2018) (2)
Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever, "Bad Language: Contemporary Introductions to Philosophy of Language." (2021) (2)
Philosophy and Death: Introductory Readings (2010) (2)
Review Article: Herder and Pragmatics: Review of Michael N. Forster’s After Herder: Philosophy of Language in the German Tradition (2013) (2)
Introduction to The Semantics-Pragmatics Boundary in Philosophy (2012) (2)
The Role of Psychology in the Philosophy of Language (2011) (2)
The Deflation of Belief Contents (1996) (2)
Terminological Reflections of an Enlightened Contextualist (2006) (2)
Michael Gregory's Proposals for a Communication Linguistics (2009) (2)
Hegel's Philosophy of Language , by Jim Vernon (2009) (2)
Logical Form and the Vernacular Revisited (2017) (2)
Contextualism in Epistemology and Relevance Theory (2017) (2)
CONTEXTUALISM IN EPISTEMOLOGY AND RELEVANCE THEORY 1 (2017) (2)
Communicative Events as Evidence in Linguistics (2001) (2)
Language, Thought and Consciousness , by P. Carruthers (1997) (1)
Perry, Wittgenstein's Builders and Metasemantics (2009) (1)
Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language (2016) (1)
An Essay on Names and Truth , by Wolfram Hinzen (2009) (1)
Introduction: Varieties of Context-Sensitivity in a Pluri-Propositionalist Reflexive Semantic Framework (2022) (1)
Objects and Senses and Substitutions: A Reply to Dwyer (2000) (1)
Insensitive Semantics , by Herman Cappelen & Ernie Lepore (2006) (1)
Speaker Meaning and Davidson on Metaphor: A Reply to McGuire (2003) (1)
An Anscombean Reference for ‘I’? (2018) (1)
Really Intriguing, that PredNP! (2006) (1)
Critical notice of Words and Contents, by Richard Vallée (2021) (1)
Papers in Honour of Michael Gregory (2001) (1)
Grice, Herbert Paul (1913-88) (2005) (1)
Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English: A Minimalist Approach , by Andrew Radford (1998) (1)
Radical and Moderate Pragmatics (2002) (1)
Review of Insensitive Semantics, by Herman Cappelen & Ernie Lepore (2006) (1)
Cracking the Language Code (2001) (1)
Troubles with Rey's linguistic Eliminativism (2022) (1)
Discourse in a Bilingual Setting: Working Papers at LE CAMP (1989) (1)
Consciousness and the Origins of Thought , by Norton Nelkin (1997) (0)
Sentences, Assertion, and the Semantics–Pragmatics Boundary (2006) (0)
Identity through Change and Substitutivity Salva (2017) (0)
Molecular Sememics (Unfinished Book Manuscript) (2018) (0)
Introduction to The Achilles of Rational Psychology (2008) (0)
Linguistic Interpretation and Cognitive Science (2001) (0)
Jim Vernon , Hegel's Philosophy of Language . Reviewed by (2009) (0)
The Coerciveness of Discourse (2018) (0)
Some Aspects of Minors (1992) (0)
Make the Rich Pay (2001) (0)
Whorf, Orwell, and Mentalese (The Molecular Sememe: Some Implications for Semantics) (2018) (0)
Introduction : Non-Sentences and the Semantics – Pragmatics Boundary (2004) (0)
Hannah Dawson, Locke, Language and Early-Modern Philosophy . Reviewed by (2008) (0)
Quasi-Factives and Cognitive Efficiency (2019) (0)
Review of Concepts by Jerry Fodor (2000) (0)
Further Background Issues (2006) (0)
Field of Discourse at LE CAMP (1992) (0)
Gennaro Chierchia , Dynamics of Meaning: Anaphora, Presupposition, and the Theory of Grammar . Reviewed by (1995) (0)
1.1. Fodor’s Background Theory A. Elements of Classical RTM (0)
Molecular Sememics: Toward A Model of an Ordinary Language (2018) (0)
The Epistemologies of Linguistic Science: Reassessing Structuralism, Redefining the Sememe (2018) (0)
Introduction to Discourse, Structure and Linguistic Choice by T. Price Caldwell (2018) (0)
Introduction to Linguistic Content (2015) (0)
Verbing and Nouning (2021) (0)
Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology , by T. Horgan and J. Tienson (1996) (0)
Terence Horgan and John Tienson , Connectionism and the Philosophy of Psychology . Reviewed by (1996) (0)
Thomason, Richmond H. (1939 -) (2005) (0)
Part One : Explaining Lepore and Stone ’ s View 2 . Four Key Notions from David Lewis and Donald Davidson (2018) (0)
Concise Encyclopedia of Phylosophy of Language and Linguistics (2010) (0)
Cornman, James W. (1929-1978) (2005) (0)
On 'the Denial of Bivalence Is Absurd' 1 (2003) (0)
Laurence Goldstein, ed. , Brevity . Brevity (2014) (0)
Lying, Misleading and What Is Said , by Jennifer M. Saul (2013) (0)
Objects, Properties, and Functions (2005) (0)
The Things We Mean , by Stephen Schiffer (2006) (0)
Language–Thought Relations (2006) (0)
Cartwright, Richard L. (1925 -) (2005) (0)
Book Reviews (2002) (0)
Julius Moravcsik, "Meaning, Creativity and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind." Reviewed by (1999) (0)
A LE CAMP Sourcebook (1990) (0)
Two Questions about Interpretive Effects (2018) (0)
Brevity , by Laurence Goldstein (2014) (0)
The R esilience of a Refined H igher-Order Thou ght Theor y of Consciousness (2013) (0)
A Positive Representational–Pragmatic View (2006) (0)
Fodor's New Theory of Computation and Information (1996) (0)
Jennifer Mather Saul , Lying, Misleading, and What Is Said: An Exploration in Philosophy of Language and in Ethics . Reviewed by (2013) (0)
Concepts: Core Readings , edited by Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence (2000) (0)
“Obviously Propositions are Nothing...”: Russell and the Logical Form of Belief Reports (2002) (0)
<em>Insensitive Semantics</em>, by Herman Cappelen & Ernie Lepore (2017) (0)
Really strange, that construction (2018) (0)
The Deflation of Belief States (1997) (0)
Indeterminacy, Opacity and the Identity Theory (1995) (0)
The Rhetoric of Plain Fact: Stevens’ “No Possum, No Sop, No Taters” (2018) (0)
Extra‐Grammatical Maneuvers (2006) (0)
Introduction: The Appearances, and What They Might Mean (2006) (0)
Speaker Meaning and Davidson on Metaphor (2003) (0)
What I Have Learned About English from Being in Japan (Or: Why Can’t Japanese Students of English Manage “A”, “An” and “The”?) (2018) (0)
ReviewArticle: HerderandPragmatics:ReviewofMichael N.Forster'sAfterHerder:Philosophyof LanguageintheGermanTradition (2013) (0)
Identity through change and substitutivity salva veritate (2010) (0)
Perspectives on Language (2011) (0)
A Note on Pedir and Control in Spanish (1995) (0)
On Coding Mood (1989) (0)
Not A Full‐fledged Speech Act? (2006) (0)
Meaning and Linguistic Usage in Renaissance Humanism: The Case of Valla (2015) (0)
Index to Volume 81 (2003) (0)
Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurance, eds. , Concepts: Core Readings . Reviewed by (2000) (0)
Bromberger, Sylvain (1924 -) (2005) (0)
REVIEWS - Louise Cummings, Clinical pragmatics . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. xi+305. (2010) (0)
American Shoot-Out: Hemingway vs. Richard Ford (2018) (0)
Andrew Radford , Syntactic Theory and the Structure of English: A Minimalist Approach . Reviewed by (1998) (0)
French Theory , by François Cussett (2008) (0)
New Essays in the Philosophy of Language of Mind (2005) (0)
What Distinguishes Assertion (2018) (0)
First-Person Plural Indexicals (2022) (0)
Metaphysics, Substitution Salva Veritate and the Slingshot Argument (2005) (0)
Unshadowed Thought , by Charles Travis (2002) (0)
Unshadowed Thought: Representations in Thought and Language (2002) (0)
Herman Cappelen & Ernie Lepore, Insensitive semantics: a defense of semantic minimalism and speech act pluralism. Oxford: Blackwell, 2005. Pp. xii+219. (2006) (0)
Remarks on Introduction to Functional Grammar (1992) (0)
Herder and Pragmatics (2013) (0)
Robust Belief States and the Right/Wrong Dichotomy (1999) (0)
Dynamics of Meaning , by G. Chierchia (1995) (0)
Meaning, Creativity and the Partial Inscrutability of the Human Mind , by Julius M. Moravcsik (1999) (0)
Living Philosophers: Willard V. Quine (2000) (0)

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