Kent's Oldies

Articles

      Action, Decision, and Society

• A Representational Theory of Action (1978)
• Actions are not Events (1980)
• Framed (1984; html)
precursor to "Default Reasoning"
• Newcomb's Problem: The $1,000,000 Solution (1987)
• More on Self-Deception (1985)
• When to Ask, "What if Everyone Did That?" (1977)
• Analytic Social Philosophy: Basic Concepts (1975)
morphed into the Appendix of Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts

      Thought and Reference

• Postscript to Thought and Reference (1994)
• Referential/Attributive (1981)
morphed into ch. 6 of Thought and Reference
• What's in a Name (1981)
morphed into chs. 7 & 8 of Thought and Reference
• Feigned Reference and Failed Reference: Much Ado about Nothing (1985)
partly resurfaced in sec. 10.5 of Thought and Reference
• Paving the Road to Reference (1992)
precursor to "Intentions and Demonstrations"
• Descriptivism Distilled (1994; html)
• Burge's New Thought Experiment: Back to the Drawing Room (1987)
merged into ch. 13 of Thought and Reference
• Russell was Right--Almost (1983)
• Semantic Nonspecificity and Mixed Quantifiers (1982)

      Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts

• On Communicative Intentions (1987)
• Performatives are Statements Too (1975)
resurfaced as sec. 10.1 of Linguistic Communication and Speech Acts
• How Performatives Really Work (1992)
with Mike Harnish, a reply to John Searle, "How Performatives Work"
• Escaping the Speech-Act Dilemma (1981)
• Katz as Katz Can (1982)
with Mike Harnish
• Meaning, Speech Acts, and Communication (1994)
intro to Part 1 of R.M. Harnish (ed.), Basic Topics in the Philosophy of Language
• Semantic Slack (1994)
precursor to "Conversational Impliciture"

Exit-Existentialism (1973)