The main ones:
“Meaning and Implication”, Mind 63 (1954), pp. 451-463.
“Iterated Modalities”, Philosophical Quarterly 5 (1955), pp. 45-56.
“Analytic-Synthetic”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society n.s. 59 (1958-9), 163-88.(
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“Some Aspects of Probability and Induction”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 7 (1956 and 1957), pp. 220-30, 316-22.
“On a Recent Account of Entailment”, Mind 68 (1959), pp. 393-5.
“Moral Argument”, Mind 69 (1960), pp. 544-9.(
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“A Myth about Logical Necessity”, Analysis 21 (1960-61), pp. 59-63.(
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“On Being Forced to a Conclusion”, Proceedings of the Aristotelian
Society, supplementary vol. 35 (1961), pp. 15-34.(
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“The Status of Determinism”, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 14 (1963), pp. 106-19.
“‘Whatever the Consequences’”, Analysis 26 (1965-6), pp. 83-102.
“‘Real’”, Mind 75 (1966), pp. 501-15.(
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“Entailment”, Philosophical Review 78 (1969), pp. 197-236.(
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“The Difference Between Right and Left”, American Philosophical Quarterly
7 (1970), pp. 175-91.(
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“Shooting, Killing, Dying”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 2 (1973), pp. 315-23.
“The Meaning-Nominalist Strategy”, Foundations of Language 10 (1973), pp. 141-68.
“The Conscience of Huckleberry Finn”, Philosophy 49 (1974), pp. 123-34. (
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“Counterfactuals and Possible Worlds”, Canadian Journal of Philosophy 4 (1974), pp. 381-402.
“Philosophy and Mr Stoppard”, Philosophy 50 (1975), pp. 5-18.(
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“Stimulus, Response, Meaning”, American Philosophical Quarterly monograph
no. 9 (1975), pp. 55-88.(
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“On Maximizing Happiness”, in R. Sikora and B. Barry (eds), Obligations to Future Generations (Temple University Press: Philadelphia, 1978), pp. 61-73.
“Some Remarks about Concepts”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 1 (1978), pp. 557-60.
“Accountability”, in Z. van Straaten (ed.), Philosophical Subjects (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 1980), pp. 14-47.(
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“Psychology and Semantics”, comments on a paper by Schiffer, Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 23 (1982), pp. 258-262.
“‘Even If’”, Linguistics and Philosophy 5 (1982), pp. 403-417.
“Positive and Negative Relevance”, American Philosophical Quarterly 20 (1983), pp. 185-94.
“Intellectual Codes”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (1983), pp. 139-41.
“Cognitive Ethology: Theory or Poetry?”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 6 (1983), pp. 356-358.
“Counterfactuals and Temporal Direction”, Philosophical Review 93 (1984), pp. 57-91.
“Identity and Cardinality: Geach and Frege”(with W.P. Alston), Philosophical Review 93 (1984), pp.
553-67.(
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“Adverb-Dropping Inferences and the Lemmon Criterion”, Actions and Events, ed. E. LePore and B. McLaughlin, (Blackwell: Oxford, 1985).
Critical notice of Davidson’s Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation,
Mind 94 (1985), pp. 601-26.(
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Review of The Shorter Pepys, in The NZ Listener 1986.(
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“In the Tradition of Kantotle” (review of Grice Festschrift), Times Literary Supplement 1986.
“Event Causation: the Counterfactual Analysis”, Philosophical Perspectives 1 (1987), pp. 367-386.
“Thoughtful Brutes”, APA Eastern Division Presidential Address, APA
Proceedings 62 (1988), pp. 197-210.(
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“Quotation”, Nous 22 (1988), pp. 399-418.(
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“Two Departures from Consequentialism”, Ethics 100 (1989), pp. 54-66.
“How is Cognitive Ethology Possible?”, in Carolyn A. Ristau (ed), Cognitive Ethology: the Minds of Other Animals (Lawrence Erlbaum: Hillsdale, NJ, 1990), pp. 35-49..
“Why is Belief Involuntary?”, Analysis 50 (1990), pp. 87-107.
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“How to Read Minds in Behaviour: a Suggestion from a Philosopher”, in A. Whiten (ed.), Natural Theories of Mind: Evolution, Development and Simulation of Everyday Mindreading (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1991), pp. 97-108.
“How do Gestures Succeed?”, in E. LePore and R. Van Gulick (eds), Searle and his Critics (Cambridge, MA: Blackwell, 1991), pp. 3-15.
“Folk-Psychological Explanations”, in John D. Greenwood (ed), The Future of Folk Psychology (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 176-95.
“Analysis Without Noise”, in Radu Bogdan (ed), Mind and Common Sense (Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 15-36.
“The Necessity of Moral Judgments”, Ethics 103 (1993), pp. 458-472.
“Negation and Abstention: Two Theories of Allowing”, Ethics 104 (1993), pp. 75-96.
“Comments on Dennett from a Cautious Ally”, Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16 (1993), pp. 381-5.(
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“The ‘Namely’ Analysis of the ‘By’-locution”, Linguistics and Philosophy 17 (1994), pp. 29-51.
“Classifying Conditionals: The Traditional Way is Right”, Mind 104 (1995), pp. 331-54.
“Improving Academic Writing” (with Samuel Gorovitz), Teaching Philosophy
20 (1997), pp. 105-120.(
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“On Forward and Backward Counterfactual Conditionals”, in Reality and Humean Supervenience: Essays on the Philosophy of David Lewis, edited by Gerhard Preyer and Frank Siebelt (Rowan and Littlefield, 2001), pp. 177-202.
“Conditionals and Explanations”, in Fact and Value: Essays on Ethics and Metaphysics for Judith Jarvis Thomson, edited by Alex Byrne, Robert Stalnaker, and Ralph Wedgwood (Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press), pp. 1-26.
“What Events Are”, in The Blackwell Guide to Metaphysics, edited by Richard M. Gale (Blackwell, 2002), pp. 43-65.(
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“Time in Human Experience”, Philosophy 79 (2004), pp. 165-83.(
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“Punishment” (2001), unpublished. (The best article I ever wrote; turned down by the journal Ethics.)
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“Looking Back over Forty-Five years of Work”, in Ouyang Kang and S. Fuller (eds), Contemporary British and American Philosophy and Philosophers (Beijing: People’s Press, 200?).