Interests. Ethics: guilt-free morality, analogies between moral philosophy and linguistics, moral particularism, virtue ethics, morality as resting on an implicit actual contract, moral relativism. Epistemology: induction, statistical learning theory, psychology of reasoning, pragmatic aspects of reasoning, logic as a theory of implication not inference, rejection of apriori knowledge, epistemic foundations, full belief as believing one knows. Language: rejection of analyticity, conceptual role semantics, truth-functional "semantics," linguistics. Mind: consciousness, intention, self-reflexive states, cognitive science. Upcoming Events in Cognitive Science in and around Princeton. Teaching 2009-2010. Spring 2009: PHI 516, Special Topics in the History of Philosophy: Quine and Davidson, a Princeton-Rutgers Graduate Seminar, co-taught with Ernie Lepore, Final Workshop on August 3 at Princeton. More information here. Fall 2009: LIN 435/PHI 435 Advanced Semantics, co-taught with Edwin Williams. Spring 2010: PHI 218/ELE 218 Epistemology and Learning Theory, co-taught with Sanjeev Kulkarni. CV Online versions of recent work Recent unpublished writings. Updated June 29, 2009. Recent published writings. Updated June 28, 2009. Change in View: Principles of Reasoning (1986) PDFs. full version (21MB). Front and Contents (.4MB). Chapters 1-6 9MB. Chapters 7-9 7.3MB. Chapter 10, Appendices, References, and Index 4MB. Full publication list Family. Last edited: "June 30, 2009, 10:37 am"