BEN CAPLAN ~ Dissertation

 

Title page and copyright page

 

Signature page 

 

Dedication, table of contents, list of figures, acknowledgements, vita, and abstract

 

Chapters 1-7 and Works Cited

 

Afterlife

 

Various bits and pieces of the dissertation have been resurrected in various forms. 

 

Review of Alan Berger, Terms and Truth: Reference Direct and Anaphoric, Dialogue 43.3 (Summer 2004): 617-619.

 

"Creatures of Fiction, Myth, and Imagination," American Philosophical Quarterly 41.4 (Oct. 2004): 331-337.

 

"Empty names," The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed., ed. Keith Brown, vol. 4 (Philosophy and Language, ed. Robert Stainton and Alex Barber) (Oxford: Elsevier, 2006), 132-136.

 

"On Sense and Direct Reference," Philosophy Compass 1.2 (March 2006): 171-185. Reprinted in On Sense and Direct Reference: Readings in the Philosophy of Language, ed. Matthew Davidson (McGraw-Hill, 2007), 2-16.

 

"Millian Descriptivism," Philosophical Studies 133.2 (March 2007): 181-198.