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BOOKS


ARTICLES

  • Concepts, Core Knowledge, and the Rationalism-Empiricism Debate (with Stephen Laurence), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 47, 2024. abstract, PDF
  • Making Sense of Domain Specificity (with Stephen Laurence), Cognition, 240, 2023. abstract, PDF
  • The Small Number System, Philosophy of Science, 87, 2020. abstract, PDF
  • Animals Are Not Cognitively Stuck in Time (with Gerardo Viera), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42, 2019. abstract, PDF
  • Infants, Animals, and the Origins of Number, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 40, 2017. abstract, PDF
  • Nativism, Empiricism, and the Interactionist Consensus (with Stephen Laurence), IEEE CDS Newsletter, 13:1 pp. 9-10, 2016. abstract, PDF
  • Concept Nativism and Neural Plasticity (with Stephen Laurence), in The Conceptual Mind: New Directions in the Study of Concepts, 2015. abstract, PDF
  • The Priority of the Individual in Cultural Inheritance (with Taylor Davis), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 37, 2014. abstract, PDF
  • In Defense of Nativism (with Stephen Laurence), Philosophical Studies, 165, 2013. abstract, PDF
  • Abstraction and the Origin of General Ideas (with Stephen Laurence), Philosophers' Imprint, 12, 2012. abstract, PDF
  • The Scope of the Conceptual (with Stephen Laurence), in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science, 2012. abstract, PDF, supplementary materials
  • Philosophy and Cognitive Science (with Richard Samuels & Stephen Stich), Introduction to The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Cognitive Science, 2012. abstract, link
  • Learning Matters: The Role of Learning in Concept Acquisition (with Stephen Laurence), Mind and Language, 26, 2011. abstract, PDF
  • Beyond the Building Blocks Model, commentary on Susan Carey's The Origins of Concepts (with Stephen Laurence), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34, 2011. abstract, PDF
  • Concepts and Theoretical Unification, commentary on Edouard Machery's Doing without Concepts (with Stephen Laurence), Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 33, 2010. abstract, PDF
  • How to Learn the Natural Numbers: Inductive Inference and the Acquisition of Number Concepts (with Stephen Laurence), Cognition, 106, 2008. abstract, PDF
  • Artifacts and Original Intent: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Design Stance (with H. Clark Barrett & Stephen Laurence), Journal of Cognition and Culture, 8, 2008. abstract, PDF
  • The Ontology of Concepts: Abstract Objects or Mental Representations? (with Stephen Laurence), Nous, 41, 2007. abstract, PDF
  • Linguistic Determinism and the Innate Basis of Number (with Stephen Laurence).  In The Innate Mind: Foundations and the Future. Oxford University Press, 2007. abstract, PDF
  • Number and Natural Language (with Stephen Laurence), in The Innate Mind: Structure and Contents. Oxford University Press, 2005. abstract, PDF
  • Should We Trust Our Intuitions? Deflationary Accounts of the Analytic Data (with Stephen Laurence), Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, 103.3, 2003. abstract, PDF
  • Concepts and Conceptual Analysis (with Stephen Laurence), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, LXVI, no. 2, 2003. abstract, PDF
  • Concepts (with Stephen Laurence), The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005 (last revised in 2019). abstract, link
  • Concepts (with Stephen Laurence), in The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Mind. Blackwell, 2003. abstract, PDF
  • Radical Concept Nativism (with Stephen Laurence), Cognition, 86, 2002. abstract, PDF
  • Lewis' Strawman (with Stephen Laurence), Philosophical Quarterly, 52, 2002. abstract, PDF
  • Boghossian on Analyticity (with Stephen Laurence), Analysis, 61.4, 2001. abstract, PDF
  • The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument (with Stephen Laurence), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 52, 2001. abstract, PDF
  • Concepts and Cognitive Science (with Stephen Laurence). In Concepts: Core Readings, MIT Press, 1999. abstract, PDF
  • Where the Regress Argument Still Goes Wrong: Reply to Knowles (with Stephen Laurence), Analysis, 59.4, 1999. PDF
  • Moral Realism and Twin Earth (with Stephen Laurence & Angus Dawson), Facta Philosophica, 1:1, 1999. abstract, PDF
  • What Is Conceptual Glue?  Minds and Machines, 9.2, 1999., abstract, PDF
  • Implicit Conceptions and the Phenomenon of Abandoned Principles, Philosophical Issues, 9: Concepts, 1998. stable url
  • How to Acquire a Concept, Mind and Language, 13:3, 1998. abstract, PDF
  • Multiple Meanings and the Stability of Content (with Stephen Laurence), Journal of Philosophy, XCV, no. 5, 1998. abstract, PDF
  • Regress Arguments against the Language of Thought (with Stephen Laurence), Analysis, 57.1, 1997. abstract, PDF
  • The Significance of the Theory Analogy in the Psychological Study of Concepts, Mind and Language, 10, 1995. abstract, PDF
  • A Reassessment of the Shift from the Classical Theory of Concepts to Prototype Theory, Cognition, 51, 1994. abstract, PDF


BOOK REVIEWS & SHORTER ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRIES

  • Innate Ideas (with Stephen Laurence), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, 2005.
  • Concepts (with Stephen Laurence), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd edition, 2005.
  • Review of Fiona Cowie's What's Within? (with Stephen Laurence), European Journal of Philosophy, 9.2, 2001. PDF
  • Review of Jerry Fodor's Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong (with Stephen Laurence), British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 50, 1999. PDF