Stephen Barker

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Expertise Summary

Before joining the Department, Stephen Barker held post-doc positions at Monash University Australia, UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) and the University of Tasmania. He works on the philosophy of language, metaphysics and metaethics and can often be heard proclaiming his slogans: No quantification theory! No sense/force distinction! No semantics of conditions! No metaphysics!

Recent Publications

• STEPHEN BARKER, 2016. ‘Figurative Speech: Pointing a Poisoned Arrow at the Heart of Semantics’ Philosophical Studies (online). 1-18
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2015. 'Irony and the Sense/Force Distinction' Analysis. 75, 9-16
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2015. Expressionism about Reference and Quantification over the Non-Existent without Meinongian Metaphysics Erkenntnis. 80, 215-234
• 2015. ‘Performatives and the Function of Truth in Semantics' Organon F. 22, 74-95

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• STEPHEN BARKER, 2016. ‘Figurative Speech: Pointing a Poisoned Arrow at the Heart of Semantics’ Philosophical Studies (online). 1-18
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2015. 'Irony and the Sense/Force Distinction' Analysis. 75, 9-16
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2015. Expressionism about Reference and Quantification over the Non-Existent without Meinongian Metaphysics Erkenntnis. 80, 215-234
• 2015. ‘Performatives and the Function of Truth in Semantics' Organon F. 22, 74-95
• STEPHEN BARKER and MARK JAGO, 2014. Monism and Material Constitution Pacific Philosophical Quarterly. 95(2), 189-204
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2014. 'Semantic Paradox and Alethic Undecidability' Analysis. (In Press.)
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2014. 'Pure versus Hybrid Expressivism and the Enigma of Conventional Implicature'. In: Having it Both Ways: Hybrid Theories and Modern
Metaethics (eds: Guy Fletcher and Mike Ridge.). Oxford University Press. (In Press.)
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2013. 'Forget Semantics: How Speech-act Theory and Expressivism Illuminate Names with Non-Existing Referents' Monist. (In Press.)
• BARKER, S., 2013. The emperor's new metaphysics of powers Mind. n/a(n/a), n/a
• BARKER, S., 2012. Expressivism about truth-making. In: B. SCHNIEDER and F. CORREIA, eds., Metaphysical grounding: understanding the structure of reality Cambridge University Press.
• STEPHEN BARKER and MARK JAGO, 2012. Being Positive about Negative Facts Philosophy and Phenomenological Research.
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2012. The Ultimate Argument Against the Dispositional Monist's Conception of Law Analysis. (In Press.)
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2012. ‘Truth-Making and the Alethic Undecidability of the Liar’ Discusiones Filosoficas 14. 14,
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2012. ‘Hybrid theories of moral statements’. In: International Encyclopedia of Ethics Blackwell.
• BARKER, S., 2011. Can counterfactuals really be about possible worlds? Noûs. 45(3), 557-576
• BARKER, S., 2011. Bearers of truth and the unsaid. In: TURNER, K., ed., Making semantics pragmatic Emerald.
• BARKER, S., 2010. Cognitive expressivism, faultless disagreement, and absolute but non-objective truth Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society. 110(2), 183-199
• 2010. Indefinite Descriptions as Referring Terms Organon F.
• 2009. Dispositional Monism, Quiddities, and Relational Constitution Analysis. 69, 242-250
• BARKER, S., 2009. Leaving things to take their chances: cause and disposition grounded in chance. In: HANDFIELD, T., ed., Dispositions and causes Oxford University Press.
• STEPHEN BARKER, 2008. How to Endure Metaphysica: Special Issue on Persistence.
• BARKER, S.J., 2007. Global expressivism: language agency without semantics, reality without metaphysics University of Nottingham ePrints. Available at: <http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/696/>
• 2007. Semantics without the Distinction between Sense and Force. In: Illocutions, Institutions and Intentionality: Essays on Themes from the Philosophy of John Searle Oxford University Press.
• BARKER, S., 2004. Renewing meaning: a speech-act theoretic approach Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• BARKER, S., 2003. Truth and conventional implicature Mind. 112(445), 1-33
• BARKER, S., 2003. Counterfactual analyses of causation: the problem of effects and epiphenomena revisited Noûs. 37(1), 133-150
• BARKER, S., 2003. A dilemma for the counterfactual analysis of causation Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 81(1), 62-77
• BARKER, S. and DOWE, P., 2003. Paradoxes of multi-location Analysis. VOL 63(PART 2), 106-113
• BARKER, S., 2003. Analysing Chancy Causation without Appeal to Chance-Raising. In: DOWE, P. and NOORDHOF, P., eds., Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World London : Routledge.
• BARKER, S., 2003. Comments: The Experiential Thesis: Audi on Intrinsic Value SOUTHERN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY. VOL 41(SUPPL), 57-61
• BARKER, S., 2002. Review of Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning by William P. Alston, London: Cornell University Press Mind. 111, 633-639
• BARKER, S., 2002. Problems with Horgan and Timmons' Nondescriptive Cognitivism 62,
• BARKER, S., 2000. Is value content a component of conventional implicature? Analysis. VOL 60(PART 3), 268-279
• BARKER, S., 1999. Counterfactuals, Probabilistic Counterfactuals and Causation Mind. VOL 108(ISSUE 431), 427-470
• BARKER, S., 1998. Predetermination and tense probabilism Analysis. VOL 58(NUMBER 4), 290-296
• BARKER, S., 1997. E-Type Pronouns, DRT, Dynamic Semantics and the Quantifier Variable-Binding Model Linguistics and Philosophy. VOL 20(NUMBER 2), 195-228
• BARKER, S., 1997. Material Implication and General Indicative Conditionals Philosophical Quarterly. VOL 47(NUMBER 187), 195-211
• BARKER, S., 1996. Parsing if-sentences and the conditions of sentencehood Analysis. VOL 56(NUMBER 4), 210-218
• BARKER, S., 1995. Towards a Pragmatic Theory of "if" 78, 185-211
• BARKER, S., 1994. The Consequent-Entailment Problem for Even if 17, 249-260
• BARKER, S., 1994. Causation, Truth and Coherence Analysis. 54, 179-182
• BARKER, S., 1993. Conditional Excluded Middle, Conditional Assertion and Only if Analysis. 53, 254-261
• BARKER, S., 1991. Even, Still, and Counterfactuals 14, 1-38
• STEPHEN BARKER, The Emperor's New Metaphysics of Powers Mind. (In Press.)
• STEPHEN BARKER, Figurative Speech: Pointing a Poisoned Arrow at the Heart of Semantics Philosophical Studies (forthcoming). 1-18
• ‘Performatives and the Function of Truth in Semantics'