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Steven Gross
Professor
Gilman 272
Thursdays 1:30–2:30 p.m.
410-516-4763
sgross11@jhu.edu
Curriculum Vitae
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Steven Gross has previously taught at the University of Pennsylvania, Georgetown University, and University College London. He specializes in the philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, and metaphysics.
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Revisited Linguistic Intuitions (with Jennifer Culbertson). In British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, forthcoming. [doc]
Davidson, First Person Authority, and the Evidence for Semantics. In a volume on Davidson's legacy, forthcoming. [doc]
Innateness (with Georges Rey). In The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, forthcoming. [pdf]Sincerely Saying What You Don’t Believe Again. In Dialectica 62, 2008, pp. 349-54. [pdf]
Vagueness, Indeterminacy, and Uncertainty. In Indeterminacy, ed. J. Ciprut (MIT Press, 2008), pp. 129-49.
(Written in 1999-2000 for an interdisciplinary workshop; the publication of the proceedings was delayed. A much longer version circulated under the title An Invitation to Vagueness.)Reply to Jackendoff. In The Linguistic Review 24, 2007, pp. 423-9. [pdf]
Relating Conscious and Unconscious Semantic Knowledge. In Croatian Journal of Philosophy 7, 2007, pp. 427-45.
Trivalent Semantics and the Vaguely Vague. In Synthese 156, 2007, pp. 97-117. [pdf]
Normativity. Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., 2006, vol. 8, pp. 698-701. [pdf]
Linguistic Understanding and Belief. In Mind 114, 2005, pp. 61-6. [pdf]
Putnam, Context, and Ontology. In Canadian Journal of Philosophy 34, 2004, pp. 507-54. [pdf]
Putnam, Kontext und Ontologie. In Hilary Putnam und die Tradition des Pragmatismus, eds. Marie-Luise Raters and Marcus Willaschek (Suhrkamp, 2002), pp. 404-36.
Review of Jerry Fodor, Concepts, in Mind 110 (April 2001), pp. 469-75. [pdf]
Review of Fiona Cowie, What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered, in The Philosophical Review 110 (January 2001), pp. 94-7. [pdf]
Vagueness in Context. In Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society, eds. Lila Gleitman and Avarind Joshi (Lawrence Erlbaum, 2000), pp. 208-13.
Essays on Linguistic Context-Sensitivity and its Philosophical Significance. Studies in Philosophy: Outstanding Dissertations (Routledge, 2001).
Contents: Introduction; I. The Pervasiveness and Utility of Context-Sensitivity; II. What is a Context?; III. Context-Sensitivity and Truth-Theoretic Accounts of Semantic Competence; IV. Context, Vagueness, and the Sorites Paradox; V. Context and Ontology (Some Initial Considerations).