Recent Publications:

These publications are within the last few years (well, they were when I started this), or else are in press (accepted but waiting to be printed). These are my own copies, and may be slightly different from the final, published versions. For quoting purposes, please refer to the published versions.

2014:

1. Allen Hazen & F.J. Pelletier (Forthcoming 2014) “Gentzen and Jaskowski Natural Deduction: Fundamentally Similar but Importantly Different” Studia Logica 102: xx-yy.

2. Tibor Kiss, F.J. Pelletier & Tobias Stadtfeld “Building a Reference Lexicon for Countability in English” (2014) in N. Calzolari, K. Choukri, T. Declerck, H. Loftsson, B. Maegaard, J. Mariani, A. Moreno, J. Odijk, S. Piperidis (eds.) Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC-14). Reykjavik (Iceland).

3. Mehrdad Oveisi, James Delgrande, F.J. Pelletier & Fred Popowich (2014) “Belief Change and Base Dependence” Fourteenth International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning, Vienna, July 20-24, 2014, pp. 151-159.

2013:

1. F.J. Pelletier (2013) “Context, Compositionality, and Brevity” in Laurence Goldstein (ed.) Brevity (Oxford: OUP) pp. 178-197.

2012:

Dov Gabbay, F.J. Pelletier, & John Woods (eds) Handbook of the History of Logic; Vol. 11 “A History of Logic’s Central Concepts”. (Amsterdam: Elsevier).
F.J. Pelletier & A. Hazen (2012) “Natural Deduction” in Dov Gabbay, F.J. Pelletier, & John Woods (eds.), pp. 341-414.

3. F.J. Pelletier (2012) “Lexical Nouns are Neither Mass nor Count, but they are Both Mass and Count” in D. Massam (ed.) A Cross-Linguistic Exploration of the Count-Mass Distinction (Oxford: OUP), pp. 9-26.

4. F.J. Pelletier (2012) “Holism and Compositionality” in W. Hinzen, E. Machery, M. Werning The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality (Oxford: OUP), pp. 149-174.

5. F.J. Pelletier (2012) “Annotated Bibliography on ‘Compositionality’”, for Oxford Bibliographies Online. (Linguistics). http://www.oxfordbibliographiesonline.com

6. N. Asher & F.J. Pelletier (2012) “More Truths About Generic Truth” in A. Mari, C. Beyssade, & F. del Prete Genericity. (Oxford: OUP), pp. 312-333.

7. F.J. Pelletier (2012) “Mass Nouns” in D. Fara & G. Russell The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Language. (Oxford: Routledge), pp. 424-436)

8. E. Lepore & F.J. Pelletier (2012) “Meaning and Ontology” in R. Schantz Prospects for Meaning (Berlin: de Gruyter) pp. 399-434.

2011:

1. F.J. Pelletier (2011) “Descriptive Metaphysics, Natural Language Metaphysics, Sapir-Whorf, and All That Stuff: Evidence from the Mass-Count Distinction” Baltic Yearbook of Cognition, Logic and Communication, 6. Available at http://www.thebalticyearbook.org/journals/baltic/article/view/1570.

2. B. Scholz, F.J. Pelletier, G. Pullum “The Philosophy of Linguistics” in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/linguistics.

3. S. Alxatib & F.J. Pelletier (2011) “On the Psychology of Truth-Gaps” in U. Sauerland, H-C Schmitz, R. van Rooij (eds.) Vagueness in Communication. LNAI 6517. Springer-Verlag: Berlin. Pp. 13-36.

4. S. Alxatib & F.J. Pelletier (2011) “The Psychology of Vagueness: Borderline Cases and Contradictions” Mind and Language 26: 287-326.

2010:

1. F.J. Pelletier (2010) Kinds, Things and Stuff (Oxford UP).

2. F.J. Pelletier (2010) “A Philosophical Introduction to Generics” in F.J. Pelletier (ed) Kinds, Things and Stuff (Oxford UP), pp. 3—15.

3. F.J. Pelletier (2010) “A Philosophical Introduction to Mass Nouns” in F.J. Pelletier (ed) Kinds, Things and Stuff pp. 123—131.

4. F.J. Pelletier (2010) “Are All Generics Created Equal?” in F.J. Pelletier (ed) Kinds, Things and Stuff pp. 60—79.

2008:

1. E. Lepore & F.J. Pelletier (2008) “Linguistics and Philosophy” in C. Wrenn Naturalism, Reference, and Ontology: Essays in Honor of Roger F. Gibson (Peter Lang Pubs) pp. 183-215.

2. F.J. Pelletier & B. Linsky (2008) “Russell’s Criticisms of Frege’s Theory of Descriptions” in N. Griffin & D. Jacquette Russell vs. Meinong: The Legacy of “On Denoting”. (Cambridge UP) pp. 40-64.

3. F.J. Pelletier & A. Hartline (2008) “Ternary Exclusive Or” Logic Journal of the International Group on Pure and Applied Logic 16: 75-83

4. F.J. Pelletier, R. Elio, P. Hanson (2008) “Is Logic all in our Heads? From Naturalism to Psychologism” Studia Logica 88: 3-66.

5. F.J. Pelletier & A. Urquhart (2008) “Synonymous Logics: A Correction” Journal of Philosophical Logic 37: 95-100.

6. J. Delgrande, Yi Jin, & F.J. Pelletier (2008) “Compositional Belief Update” Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research 32: 757-792.