Francis Jeffry Pelletier (pelletier-fj)

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Bibliography

Alxatib, Sam and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2011. “On the Psychology of Truth-Gaps.” in Vagueness in Communication. International Workshop, ViC 2009, held as part of ESSLLI 2009, Bordeaux, France, July 2009. Revised Selected Papers, edited by Rick W. F. Nouwen, Robert van Rooij, Uli Sauerland, and Hans-Christian Schmitz, pp. 13–36. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence n. 6517. Berlin: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-642-18446-8.
Arrozola, Xabier, Korta, Kepa and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, eds. 1998. Discourse, Interaction, and Communication: Proceedings of the Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-95). Philosophical Studies Series n. 72. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Carlson, Gregory N. and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, eds. 1995. The Generic Book. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Carlson, Gregory N. and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2002. “The Average American has 2.3 Children.” Journal of Semantics 19(1): 73–104.
Elio, Renée and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1995. “A Study of Belief Update Theories.” Unpublished manuscript, University of Alberta.
Gabbay, Dov M., Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Woods, John, eds. 2012. Handbook of the History of Logic. Volume 11: Logic: A History of its Central Concepts. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Hofweber, Thomas and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2005. “Encuneral Noun Phrases.” Unpublished manuscript, University of Michigan and University of Alberta.
Kazmi, Ali Akhtar and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1998. “Is Compositionality Formally Vacuous?” Linguistics and Philosophy 21(6): 629–633.
King-Farlow, John and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1977. “Pains across Persons across Possible Worlds.” Idealistic Studies 7: 61–75.
Krifka, Manfred, Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, Carlson, Gregory N., Meulen, Alice G. B. ter, Chierchia, Gennaro and Link, Godehard. 1995. “Genericity: an Introduction.” in The Generic Book, edited by Gregory N. Carlson and Francis Jeffry Pelletier, pp. 1–124. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
LePore, Ernest and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2012. “Meaning and Ontology.” in Prospects for Meaning, edited by Richard Schantz, pp. 399–434. Current Issues in Theoretical Philosophy n. 3. Berlin: de Gruyter.
Morgan, Charles G. and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1977. “Some Notes Concerning Fuzzy Logics.” Linguistics and Philosophy 1(1): 79–98.
Pagin, Peter and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2007. “Content, Context, and Composition.” in Context-Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism. New Essays on Semantics and Pragmatics, pp. 25–62. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1972. “Restricted Quantification and Sortal Quantification.” Philosophical Studies 23: 400–404.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1974. “On some Proposals for the Semantics of Mass Nouns.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 3(1–2): 87–108.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1975a. “A Bibliography of Recent Work on Mass Terms.” Synthese 31(3–4): 523–526.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1975b. “Non-Singular Reference: Some Preliminaries.” Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel 5(4): 451–465. Reprinted in Pelletier (1979a, 1–14).
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1977a. “Or.” Theoretical Linguistics 4(1-2): 60–74.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1977b. “How/Why Does Linguistics Matter to Philosophy? A Critical Notice of Some Recent Works on the Borderline of Linguistics and Philosophy.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 15(3): 393–426.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, ed. 1979a. Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems. Synthese Language Library n. 6. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-4110-5.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1979b. “Sameness and Referential Opacity in Aristotle.” Noûs 13(3): 283–311.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1979c.“Sharvy (1979) on Mass Predication.” in Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems, edited by Francis Jeffry Pelletier, pp. 55–61. Synthese Language Library n. 6. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-4110-5.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1980. “Review of Hacking (1975).” Linguistics and Philosophy 3(3): 429–436.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1982. “(X).” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 23(3): 316–326.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1983. “Plato on Not-Being: Some Interpretations of the Symploke Eidon (259E) and Their Relation to Parmenides’ Problem.” in Midwest Studies in Philosophy 8: Contemporary perspectives on the history of philosophy, edited by Peter A. French, Theodore E. Uehling Jr., and Howard K. Wettstein, pp. 35–66. Minneapolis, Minnesota: University of Minnesota Press.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1984a. “The Not-So-Strange Modal Logic of Indeterminacy.” Logique et Analyse 27(108): 415–422.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1984b. “Six Problems in ‘Translational Equivalence’ .” Logique et Analyse 27(108): 423–434.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1986. “Seventy-Five Problems for Testing Automatic Theorem Provers.” Journal of Automated Reasoning 2: 191–216.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1988. “Vacuous Relatives and the (Non)-Context-Freeness of English.” Linguistics and Philosophy 11(3): 255–260.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1989. “Another Argument Against Vague Objects.” The Journal of Philosophy 86: 481–492.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1990. Parmenides, Plato, and the Semantics of Non-Being. Chicago, Illinois: University of Chicago Press.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1991. “Mass Terms.” in Handbook of Metaphysics and Ontology, edited by Hans Burkhardt and Barry Smith, pp. 495–499. Analytica: Investigations in Logic, Ontology, and the Philosophy of Language n. 2. München: Philosophia Verlag.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1994a. “On an Argument Against Semantic Compositionality.” in Logic, and Philosophy of Science in Uppsala, edited by Dag Prawitz and Dag Westerståhl, pp. 599–610. Synthese Library n. 236. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1994b. “Semantic Compositionality: the Argument from Mind.” in Proceedings of the 16th International Wittgenstein Symposium: Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences, edited by Roberto Casati, Barry Smith, and Graham White, pp. 311–317. Schriftenreihe der Österreichischen Ludwig Wittgenstein Gesellschaft n. 21. Wien: Hölder-Pichler-Tempsky.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1994c. “The Principle of Semantic Compositionality.” Unpublished manuscript.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1994d. “Some Issues Involving Internal and External Semantics.” in The Logical Foundations of Cognition, edited by John Macnamara and Gonzalo E. Reyes, pp. 282–294. Vancouver Studies in Cognitive Science n. 4. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1998a. “Mass Terms.” in The Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Edward J. Craig. London: Routledge. The Routledge Encyclopedia was made available online in 2002 and is now regularly updated., doi:10.4324/9780415249126-X023-1.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1998b. “Thinking of ‘Not’ .” in Discourse, Interaction, and Communication: Proceedings of the Fourth International Colloquium on Cognitive Science (ICCS-95), edited by Xabier Arrozola, Kepa Korta, and Francis Jeffry Pelletier, pp. 37–48. Philosophical Studies Series n. 72. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1999. “A Brief History of Natural Deduction.” History and Philosophy of Logic 20(1): 1–31.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2000. “Review of Hájek (1998).” The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 6(3): 342–346.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2001. “Did Frege Believe Frege’s Principle?” Journal of Logic, Language, and Information 10(1): 87–114.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2005. “Generics.” in The Encyclopedia of Philosophy, edited by Donald M. Borchert, 2nd ed. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2006a. “Review of Priest, Beall and Armour-Garb (2004).” The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 12(1): 131–135.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2006b. “Review of Representation and Inference for Natural Language: A First Course in Computational Semantics, by Patrick Blackburn and Jonathan Bos.” Computational Linguistics 32(2): 283–286.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, ed. 2010a. Kinds, Things, and Stuff. Mass Terms and Generics. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382891.001.0001.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2010b. “Generics: A Philosophical Introduction.” in Kinds, Things, and Stuff. Mass Terms and Generics, edited by Francis Jeffry Pelletier, pp. 3–15. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382891.001.0001.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2010c. “Are All Generics Created Equal?” in Kinds, Things, and Stuff. Mass Terms and Generics, edited by Francis Jeffry Pelletier, pp. 60–79. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382891.001.0001.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2010d. “Mass Terms: A Philosophical Introduction.” in Kinds, Things, and Stuff. Mass Terms and Generics, edited by Francis Jeffry Pelletier, pp. 123–131. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195382891.001.0001.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2012a. “Mass Terms.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, edited by Gillian K. Russell and Delia Graff Fara, pp. 424–437. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2012b. “Holism and Compositionality.” in The Oxford Handbook of Compositionality, edited by Markus Werning, Wolfram Hinzen, and Edouard Machery, pp. 149–174. Oxford Handbooks. New York: Oxford University Press.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2013. “Context, Compositionality, and Brevity.” in Kant. Making Reason Intuitive, edited by Kyriaki Goudeli, Pavlos Kontos, and Ioli Patellis, pp. 178–197. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 2015. “Discussion [of Priest (2014)].” The Philosophical Quarterly 65(261): 822–830.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Asher, Nicholas. 1997. “Generics and Defaults.” in Handbook of Logic and Language, edited by Johan van Benthem and Alice G. B. ter Meulen, pp. 1125–1177. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V. Second edition: van Benthem and ter Meulen (2011).
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Elio, Renée. 1997. “What should Default Reasoning Be, by Default?” Computational Intelligence 13(2): 165–187.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Elio, Renée. 2002. “Logic and Cognition.” in Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science XI: In the Scope of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science: Volume One of the Proceedings of the 11th International Congress of Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science, Kraków, 1999, edited by Peter Gärdenfors, Jan Woleński, and Katarzyna Kijania-Placek, pp. 137–156. Synthese Library n. 315. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Hartline, Andrew. 2006. “On a Homework Problem of Larry Horn’s.” in Drawing the Boundaries of Meaning. Neo-Gricean Studies in Pragmatics and Semantics in Honor of Laurence R. Horn, edited by Betty J. Birner and Gregory Ward, pp. 281–294. Studies in Language, Companion Series n. 80. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Co., doi:10.1075/slcs.80.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Hazen, Allen Patterson. 2012. “A History of Natural Deduction.” in Handbook of the History of Logic. Volume 11: Logic: A History of its Central Concepts, edited by Dov M. Gabbay, Francis Jeffry Pelletier, and John Woods, pp. 341–414. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Hazen, Allen Patterson. 2021. “Natural Deduction Systems in Logic.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2021/entries/natural-deduction/.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and King-Farlow, John. 1975. “Relations: Turning Russell’s Other Flank.” The Southern Journal of Philosophy 13: 359–367.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Linsky, Bernard. 2009. “Russell vs. Frege on Definite Descriptions as Singular Terms.” in Russell vs. Meinong. The Legacy of “On Denoting” , edited by Nicholas Griffin and Dale Jacquette, pp. 40–64. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy n. 30. London: Routledge.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Schubert, Lenhart K. 1989. “Mass Expressions.” in Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Volume IV: Topics in the Philosophy of Language, edited by Dov M. Gabbay and Franz Guenthner, pp. 327–407. Synthese Library n. 167. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co. Reprinted in revised form as Pelletier and Schubert (2003), doi:10.1007/978-94-009-1171-0.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Schubert, Lenhart K. 2003. “Mass Expressions.” in Handbook of Philosophical Logic, Volume X, edited by Dov M. Gabbay and Franz Guenthner, 2nd ed., pp. 249–336. Dordrecht: Springer. First publication as Pelletier and Schubert (1989).
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Thomason, Richmond H. 2002. “Twenty-Five Years of Linguistics and Philosophy.” Linguistics and Philosophy 25(5–6): 507–529.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Urquhart, Alasdair. 2003. “Synonymous Logics.” The Journal of Philosophical Logic 32(3): 259–285.
Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Zalta, Edward N. 2000. “How to Say Goodbye to the Third Man.” Noûs 34(2): 165–202.
Romanycia, Marc H. J. and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1985. “What is a Heuristic?” Computational Intelligence 1(2): 47–58.
Scholz, Barbara C., Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Pullum, Geoffrey K. 2011. “Philosophy of Linguistics.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2011/entries/linguistics/.
Scholz, Barbara C., Pelletier, Francis Jeffry and Pullum, Geoffrey K. 2015. “Philosophy of Linguistics.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2015/entries/linguistics/.
Scholz, Barbara C., Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, Pullum, Geoffrey K. and Nefdt, Ryan Mark. 2022. “Philosophy of Linguistics.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2022/entries/linguistics/.
Scholz, Barbara C., Pelletier, Francis Jeffry, Pullum, Geoffrey K. and Nefdt, Ryan Mark. 2024. “Philosophy of Linguistics.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2024/entries/linguistics/.
Schubert, Lenhart K. and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1987. “Problems in the Representation of Generics, Plurals, and Mass Nouns.” in New Directions in Semantics, volume 1, edited by Ernest LePore, pp. 385–451. New York: Academic Press.
Schubert, Lenhart K. and Pelletier, Francis Jeffry. 1988. “Generically Speaking, or, Using Discourse Representation Theory to Interpret Generics.” in Properties, Types and Meaning II. Semantic Issues, edited by Gennaro Chierchia, Barbara Hall Partee, and Raymond Turner, pp. 193–268. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy n. 39. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.

Further References

Hacking, Ian. 1975. Why does Language Matter to Philosophy? Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Hájek, Petr. 1998. Metamathematics of Fuzzy Logic. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Priest, Graham. 2014. One. Being an Investigation into the Unity of Reality and of its Parts, including the Singular Object which is Nothingness. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199688258.001.0001.
Priest, Graham, Beall, J. C. and Armour-Garb, Bradley, eds. 2004. The Law of Non-Contradiction: New Philosophical Essays. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199265176.001.0001.
Sharvy, Richard. 1979. “The Indeterminacy of Mass Predication.” in Mass Terms: Some Philosophical Problems, edited by Francis Jeffry Pelletier, pp. 47–54. Synthese Language Library n. 6. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Co., doi:10.1007/978-1-4020-4110-5_4.