BEN CAPLAN ~ Papers, etc.

 

METAPHYSICS

 

Mereology, modality, persistence, time

 

"Fusions and Ordinary Physical Objects," Philosophical Studies 125.1 (July 2005): 61-83, with Bob Bright.

 

"Why So Tense About the Copula?," Mind 114.455 (July 2005): 703-708.   

 

"A New Defence of the Modal Existence Requirement," Synthese 154.2 (Jan. 2007): 335-343.

 

"The Way Things Were," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research (forthcoming), with David Sanson.

 

          Ontology of art

 

"Can a Musical Work Be Created?," British Journal of Aesthetics 44.2 (April 2004): 113-134, with Carl Matheson.

 

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

 

          "Defending Musical Perdurantism," British Journal of Aesthetics 46.1 (Jan. 2006): 59-69, with Carl Matheson.

 

"Fine Individuation," British Journal of Aesthetics 47.2 (April 2007): 113-137, with Carl Matheson.

 

"Defending 'Defending Musical Perdurantism'," British Journal of Aesthetics 48.1 (Jan. 2008): 80-85, with Carl Matheson.

 

"Modality, Individuation, and the Ontology of Art," Canadian Journal of Philosophy (forthcoming), with Carl Matheson.

 

          General piece

 

"Existence," 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), 371-374.

 

Reviews

 

Review of Julian Dodd, Works of Music: An Essay in Ontology, British Journal of Aesthetics 47.4 (Oct. 2007): 445-446.

 

          Review of Trenton Merricks, Truth and Ontology, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (16 Feb. 2008).

 

PHILOSOPHY OF LANGUAGE

 

Names and demonstratives

 

"Quotation and Demonstration," Philosophical Studies 111.1 (Oct. 2002): 69-80.

  

"Putting Things in Contexts," Philosophical Review 112.2 (April 2003): 191-214.

 

"Against Widescopism," Philosophical Studies 125.2 (August 2005): 167-190.

 

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

 

          General pieces

 

"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.

 

"Kaplan, David Benjamin," The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed., ed. Donald Borchert (Detroit, MI: Macmillan, 2006).

 

"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 (Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2007), 2-16.

           

Reviews

 

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

 

Review of Jerrold J. Katz, Sense, Reference, and Philosophy, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (1 Jan. 2005).

 

Review of Stefano Predelli, Contexts, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (17 Nov. 2006; corrected 29 Nov. 2006).

 

OTHER AREAS

 

          History of analytic philosophy

 

"What's Puzzling Gottlob Frege?," Canadian Journal of Philosophy 31.2 (June 2001): 159-200, with Mike Thau.

 

          Philosophy of mind

 

"On the Content of Experience," Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75.3 (Nov. 2007): 590-611, with Tim Schroeder.

 

DISSERTATION

 

Empty Names: An Essay on the Semantics, Pragmatics, Metaphysics, and Epistemology of Empty Names and Other Directly Referential Expressions, June 2002.