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. Fall 2009: LIN 435/PHI 435 Advanced Semantics, co-taught with Edwin Williams. Syllabus. When and Where: 11am- 12:20pm, Tuesday and Thursday, 209 Burr Hall Topic for November 24: Generalized sequence phenomena and double access readings: tense, person, mood (as discussed by Schlenker) 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 CV Online versions of recent work Recent unpublished writings.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 August 5, 2009. Recent published writings. Updated July29, 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: "November 22, 2009, 10:16 am"