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The following is a list of all papers and books of mine which have already been published or are forthcoming. Abstracts are available on the On-Line Papers page, as are electronic copies of almost all of the papers. Click on the icon to be taken to the paper's entry on the On-Line Papers page. You can also download my CV, if you would like.

Books

•  Modes of Representation: Content, Communication, and Frege (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2024)

The books below were published under the name "Richard G. Heck, Jr". Please see this page for information on how to cite them.

•  Reading Frege's Grundgesetze (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012)
  Reviews:
  • Philip Ebert, Philosophia Mathematica 23 (2015), pp. 289-93 (Oxford Journals)
  • Gregory Landini, European Journal of Philosophy 22 (2014), pp. 159-172 (Wiley Online)
  • Oran Magal, Philosophical Quarterly 64 (2014), pp. 526-9 (Oxford Journals)
  • Marcus Rossberg, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (2014) (NDPR Online)
•  Frege's Theorem (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
  Reviews:
  • Aldo Antonelli, International Studies in the Philosophy of Science 26 (2012), pp. 219-35 (EbscoHost)
  • John P. Burgess, Journal of Philosophy 109 (2012), pp. 728-32 (JPhil Online)
  • Roy Cook, Philosophia Mathematica 20 (2012), pp. 346-59 (Oxford Journals)
  • Philip Ebert, Philosophical Quarterly 64 (2014), pp. 166-9 (Oxford Journals)
  • Bob Hale, Mind 123 (2014), pp. 437-56 (Oxford Journals)
•  Language, Thought, and Logic: Essays in Honour of Michael Dummett (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997), editor
  Reviews:
  • William Demopoulos, Journal of Symbolic Logic 63 (1998), pp. 1598-1602 (JSTOR)
  • Raymond Woller, The Review of Metaphysics 53 (2000), pp. 701-703 (JSTOR)

Forthcoming Papers

• "The Liar Paradox and Metamathematics", Forthcoming in a Handbook on the Liar.

Published Papers

This list is organized by date of publication, with the most recent papers appearing first. If you want a list organized by title, please see the Online Papers page.

• "Chalmers on Analyticity and A Priority", in Modes of Representation, Ch. 7.
• "Does Pornography Presuppose Rape Myths?", Pacific Philosophical Quarterly 105 (2024), pp. 50-74.
• "Sense as Mode of Representation", in Modes of Representation, Ch. 6.
• "Disquotation, Translation, and Context-Dependence", In E. Lepore and D. Sosa, eds., Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, vol. 3 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), pp. 99-128.
• "Disquotationalism and the Compositional Principles", in C. Nicolai, ed., Modes of Truth: The Unified Approach to Modality, Truth, and Paradox (New York: Routledge, 2021), pp. 115-50.
• "How Not To Watch Feminist Pornography", Feminist Philosophical Quarterly 7, no 1 (2021), Article 3.
• "Introduction", in Crispin Wright, The Riddle of Vagueness (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021), pp. 1-40.
• "Pornography and Accommodation", Inquiry 64 (2021), pp. 830-60.
• "The Birth of Semantics" (with Robert May), Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 8, no 6 (2020), pp. 1-31.
• "The Basic Laws of Cardinal Number", in P. Ebert and M. Rossberg, eds., Essays on Frege's Basic Laws of Arithmetic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 1-30.
• "Formal Arithmetic Before Grundgesetze", in P. Ebert and M. Rossberg, eds., Essays on Frege's Basic Laws of Arithmetic (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019), pp. 497-537.
• "Logicism, Ontology, and the Epistemology of Second-Order Logic", in Ivette Fred and Jessica Leech, eds, Being Necessary: Themes of Ontology and Modality from the Work of Bob Hale (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 140-69.
• "Truth In Frege" (with Robert May), in M. Glanzberg, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Truth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018), pp. 193-215.

The papers below were published under the name "Richard G. Heck, Jr". Please see this page for information on how to cite them.

• "The Frontloading Argument", Philosophical Studies 175 (2018), pp. 2583-2608.
• "The Logical Strength of Compositional Principles", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 59 (2018), pp. 1-33.
• "Speaker's Reference, Semantic Reference, and Intuition", Review of Philosophy and Psychology 9 (2018), pp. 251-69
  reprinted with a Postscript as Ch. 10 of Modes of Representation.
• "Cognitive Hunger: Remarks on Imogen Dickie's Fixing Reference", Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 95 (2017), pp. 738-44.
• "The Existence (and Non-existence) of Abstract Objects", in P. Ebert and M. Rossberg, eds., Abstractionism: Essays in Philosophy of Mathematics (Oxford: Oxford Univerity Press, 2016), pp. 50-78
  also in Frege's Theorem, pp. 200-26.
• "Is Frege's Definition of the Ancestral Adequate?", Philosophia Mathematica 24 (2016), pp. 91-116.
• "Consistency and the Theory of Truth", Review of Symbolic Logic 8 (2015), pp. 424-66.
• "In Defense of Formal Relationism", Thought 3 (2014), pp. 243-50
  reprinted as the Postscript to Ch. 5 of Modes of Representation.
• "Intuition and the Substitution Argument", Analytic Philosophy 55 (2014), pp. 1-30
  reprinted with a Postscript as Ch. 9 of Modes of Representation.
• "Predicative Frege Arithmetic and "Everyday Mathematics"", Philosophia Mathematica 22 (2014), pp. 279-307.
• "Semantics and Context-Dependence: Towards a Strawsonian Account", in A. Burgess and B. Sherman, eds., Metasemantics: New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014), pp. 327-64.
• "The Function is Unsaturated" (with Robert May), in M. Beaney, ed., The Oxford Handbook of the History of Analytic Philosophy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), pp. 825-50.
• "Is Compositionality a Trivial Principle?", Frontiers of Philosophy in China 8 (2103), pp. 140-55.
• "Sir Michael Anthony Eardley Dummett, 1925-2011", Philosophia Mathematica 21 (2013), pp. 1-8.
• "A Liar Paradox", Thought 1 (2012), pp. 36-40.
• "More On 'A Liar Paradox'", Thought 1 (2012), pp. 270-80.
• "Solving Frege's Puzzle", Journal of Philosophy 109 (2012), pp. 132-74
  reprinted as Ch. 5 of Modes of Representation.
• "The Composition of Thoughts" (with Robert May), Noûs 45 (2011), pp. 126-66
  reprinted in Modes of Representation, Ch. 8.
• "Frege's Theorem: An Overview", in Frege's Theorem, pp. 1-39.
• "A Logic for Frege's Theorem", in Frege's Theorem, pp. 267-96
  reprinted in A. Miller, ed., Logic, Language and Mathematics: Themes from the Philosophy of Crispin Wright (Oxford: Oxford University Press), pp. 24-54.
• "Ramified Frege Arithmetic", Journal of Philosophical Logic 40 (2011), pp. 715-35.
• "Are There Different Kinds of Content?", in J. Cohen and B. McLaughlin, eds, Contemporary Debates in the Philosophy of Mind (Oxford: Blackwells, 2007), pp. 117-38.
• "Frege and Semantics", Grazer Philosophische Studien 75 (2007), pp. 27-63
  reprinted in The Cambridge Companion to Frege, ed. by T. Ricketts and M. Potter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 342-78; reprinted, more or less, as Chapter 2 of Reading Frege's Grundgesetze.
• "Meaning and Truth-conditions", in D. Griemann and G. Siegwart, eds., Truth and Speech Acts: Studies in the Philosophy of Language (New York: Routledge, 2007), pp. 349-76.
• "Self-reference and the Languages of Arithmetic", Philosophia Mathematica 15 (2007), pp. 1-29.
• "Use and Meaning", in R. E. Auxier and L. E. Hahn, eds., The Philosophy of Michael Dummett (Chicago: Open Court, 2007), pp. 531-57.
• "Frege's Contribution to Philosophy of Language" (with Robert May), in E. Lepore and B. Smith, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 3-39.
• "Idiolects", in J. J. Thomson and A. Byrne, eds., Content and Modality: Themes from the Philosophy of Robert Stalnaker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006), pp. 61-92.
• "MacFarlane on Relative Truth", Philosophical Issues 16 (2006), pp. 88-100.
• "Reason and Language", in C. Macdonald and G. Macdonald, eds., McDowell and His Critics (Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2006), pp. 22-45.
• "Julius Caesar and Basic Law V", Dialectica 59 (2005), pp. 161-78
  reprinted in Frege's Theorem, pp. 111-26.
• "Truth and Disquotation", Synthese 142 (2004), pp. 317-52.
• "Frege on Identity and Identity-Statements: A Reply to Thau and Caplan", Canadian Journal of Philosophy 33 (2003), pp. 83-102 (Awarded the Canadian Journal of Philosophy's 2002 Essay Prize).
• "Semantic Accounts of Vagueness", in J.C. Beall, ed., Liars and Heaps (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 106-27.
• "Do Demonstratives Have Senses?", Philosophers' Imprint 2 (2002)
  reprinted in The Philosopher's Annual 25 (2002); reprinted, with a Postscript, as Ch. 4 of Modes of Representation.
• "Meaning and Truth-conditions: A Reply to Kemp", Philosophical Quarterly 52 (2002), pp. 82-87.
• "Cardinality, Counting, and Equinumerosity", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 41 (2000), pp. 187-209
  reprinted in Frege's Theorem, pp. 156-79.
• "Non-conceptual Content and the 'Space of Reasons'", Philosophical Review 109 (2000), pp. 483-523.
• "Syntactic Reductionism", Philosophia Mathematica 8 (2000), pp. 124-49
  reprinted in Frege's Theorem, pp. 180-99.
• "Frege's Theorem: An Introduction", The Harvard Review of Philosophy 7 (1999), pp. 56-73
  reprinted in S. Phineas Upham, ed., All We Need Is a Paradigm (Chicago: Open Court, 2009), pp. 41-61; published in French, as "Introduction au théorème de Frege", tr. by L. Perrin, in M. Marion and A. Voizard, eds., Frege: Logique et philosophie (Montreal: Harmattan, 1998), pp. 33-61; reprinted, in Portuguese, as "O Teorema de Frege: uma Introdução", tr. by A. Abath and A. Zilhão, in A. Zilhão, ed., Do Círculo de Viena á Filosofia Analítica Contemporânea (Lisbon: Sociedade Portugesua de Filosofia, 2007), pp. 259-80; reprinted in Chinese, tr. by Liu Jingxian, in Philosophical Analysis 5 (2014), pp. 69--85.
• "Grundgesetze der Arithmetik I §10", Philosophia Mathematica 7 (1999), pp. 258-92
  reprinted, more or less, as Chapter 4 of Reading Frege's Grundgesetze.
• "Die Grundlagen der Arithmetik §§82-83" (with George Boolos), in M. Schirn, ed., Philosophy of Mathematics Today (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998), pp. 407-28
  reprinted in George Boolos, Logic, Logic, and Logic (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1998), pp. 315-38; reprinted, with a Postscript, in Frege's Theorem, pp. 69-89.
• "The Finite and the Infinite in Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik", in M. Schirn, ed., The Philosophy of Mathematics Today (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1998), pp. 429-66
  reprinted, more or less, as Chapter 8 of Reading Frege's Grundgesetze.
• "Frege, Gottlob" (with Alexander George), in the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, vol. 3 (New York: Routledge, 1998), pp. 765-78.
• "Grundgesetze der Arithmetik I §§29-32", Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 38 (1998), pp. 437-74
  reprinted, more or less, as Chapter 3 of Reading Frege's Grundgesetze, though some material is contained in Chapter 5.
• "That There Might Be Vague Objects (So Far as Concerns Logic)", The Monist 81 (1998), pp. 277-99.
• "Finitude and Hume's Principle", Journal of Philosophical Logic 26 (1997), pp. 589-617
  reprinted in R. T. Cook, ed., The Arché Papers on the Mathematics of Abstraction (Dordrecht: Springer, 2007), pp. 62-84; reprinted, with a Postscript, in Frege's Theorem, pp. 237-66.
• "The Julius Caesar Objection", in Language, Thought, and Logic: Essays in Honour of Michael Dummett, pp. 273-308
  reprinted in Frege's Theorem, pp. 127-55.
• "Tarski, Truth, and Semantics", Philosophical Review 106 (1997), pp. 533-54.
• "Communication and Knowledge: Rejoinder to Byrne and Thau", Mind 105 (1996), pp. 151-56
  reprinted as the Postscript to Ch. 3 of Modes of Representation.
• "The Consistency of Predicative Fragments of Frege's Grundgesetze der Artithmetik", History and Philosophy of Logic 17 (1996), pp. 209-20.
• "Definition by Induction in Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik", in W. Demopoulos, ed., Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 295-333
  reprinted in M. Schirn, ed., Frege: Importance and Legacy (New York: de Gruyter, 1996), pp. 200-33; reprinted, more or less, as Chapter 7 of Reading Frege's Grundgesetze.
• "Frege's Principle", in J.Hintikka, ed., From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995), pp. 119-42
  reprinted, with a Postscript, in Frege's Thoerem, pp. 90-110.
• "The Sense of Communication", Mind 104 (1995), pp. 79-106
  reprinted as Ch. 3 of Modes of Representation.
• "Critical Notice of Michael Dummett, Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics", Philosophical Quarterly 43 (1993), pp. 223-33.
• "The Development of Arithmetic in Frege's Grundgesetze der Arithmetik", Journal of Symbolic Logic 58 (1993), pp. 579-601
  reprinted, with a postscript, in W. Demopoulos, ed., Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics (Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, 1995), pp. 257-94; reprinted in M. Beaney and E. H. Reck, eds., Gottlob Frege: Critical Assessments of Leading Philosophers, vol. III (New York: Routledge, 2005), pp. 323-48; reprinted, with a new Postscript, in Frege's Theorem, pp. 40-68; reprinted, more or less, as Chapter 6 of Reading Frege's Grundgesetze.
• "A Note on the Logic of Higher-order Vagueness", Analysis 53 (1993), pp. 201-8
  reprinted in D. Graff and T. Williamson, eds., Vagueness (Dartmouth: Ashgate, 2002), pp. 315-22.
• "Reply to Hintikka and Sandu: Frege and Second-order Logic" (with Jason Stanley), Journal of Philosophy 90 (1993), pp. 416-24.
• "On the Consistency of Second-order Contextual Definitions", Noûs 26 (1992), pp. 491-4
  reprinted, with a Postscript, in Frege's Theorem, pp. 227-36.