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The papers below are penultimate versions of published papers (except for papers in progress). Please use the published versions for citations and quotations.
1. “Causally Relevant Properties,” Philosophical Perspectives 9 (1995), pp. 447-475. [html] [pdf]
2. “Structured Characters and Complex Demonstratives,” Philosophical Studies 74 (1994), pp. 193-219. [html] [pdf]
3. “What is Character?”, Journal of Philosophical Logic 24 (1995), pp. 227-240. [html] [pdf]
4. “Demonstratives and Their Linguistic Meanings,” Noûs 30 (1996). [html] [pdf]
5. “Understanding Belief Reports,” Philosophical Review 107 (1998), pp. 555-595. [html] [pdf]
6. “Russellianism and Psychological Generalizations,” Noûs 34 (2000), pp. 203-236. [html] [pdf]
7. “Russellianism and Explanation,” Philosophical Perspectives 15 (2001). [html] [pdf]
8. “Russellianism and Prediction,” Philosophical Studies 105 (2001), pp. 59-105. [html] [pdf]
9. “Cognitive Significance, Attitude Ascriptions, and Ways of Believing,” a Talk Presented at the Pacific APA, 2001. An abbreviated version of this paper was published in Philosophical Studies 108, pp. 65-81. [html] [pdf]
10. “Indexicals”, Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (online), URL=
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/indexicals/.
11. “Simple Sentences, Substitutions, and Mistaken Evaluations” (with Jennifer Saul).
Philosophical Studies 111 (2002), pp. 1-41. [html] [pdf]
12. Review of Scott Soames’s Beyond Rigidity, Linguistics and Philosophy 26 (2003), pp. 365-78. [html] [pdf]
13. Review of Michael Thau’s Consciousness and Cognition, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 69 (2004), pp 484-491. [html] [pdf]
14. “Empty Names, Fictional Names, Mythical Names.” Noûs 39 (2005), pp. 596-631. [html] [pdf]
15. “Kripke’s Revenge” (with Theodore Sider). Philosophical Studies 128 (2006), pp. 669-682. [html] [pdf]
16. “Illogical, But Rational”. Noûs 40 (2006), pp. 376-379.
This paper is a reply to Stephen Schiffer’s paper “A Problem for a Direct-Reference Theory of Belief Reports,” available below. Nathan Salmon has also written a reply titled “The Resilience of Illogical Belief,” also available below. All three papers appeared together in the same issue of Noûs.
Schiffer’s paper: [pdf - 117K] (or go to his website).
Salmon’s reply: [pdf - 61K]
Braun’s reply: [pdf - 52K]
17. “Names and Natural Kind Terms.” Handbook of Philosophy of Language (2006), Oxford University Press, edited by Ernest Lepore and Barry C. Smith. [pdf - 303K]
18. “Now You Know Who Hong Oak Yun Is.” Philosophical Issues 16 (2006), pp. 24-42. [pdf - 134 K]
19. “Comment on David Chalmers’s ‘Probability and Propositions’.” For the Online Philosophy Conference, May 2006. [pdf - 154K] (Click here for a copy of Chalmers’s paper from his website.)
20. “Vague, So Untrue” (with Theodore Sider). Noûs 41 (2007), pp. 133-156. [pdf]
21. “Problems for a Quantificational Theory of Complex Demonstratives.” Forthcoming in Philosophical Studies. [pdf]
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