Amie L. Thomasson (thomasson)

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Bibliography

Thomasson, Amie L. 1996. “Fiction, Modality and Dependent Abstracta.” Philosophical Studies 84: 295–320.
Thomasson, Amie L. 1997. “Ontological Categories and How to Use Them.” The Electronic Journal of Analytic Philosophy 5.
Thomasson, Amie L. 1998. “A Nonreductivist Solution to Mental Causation.” Philosophical Studies 89: 181–195.
Thomasson, Amie L. 1999. Fiction and Metaphysics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2000a. “Critical Notice of Chakrabarti (1997).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 61(1): 233–235.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2000b. “After Brentano: A One-Level Theory of Consciousness.” European Journal of Philosophy 8(2): 190–210.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2001a. “Ontological Minimalism.” American Philosophical Quarterly 38(4): 319–331.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2001b. “Geographic Objects and the Science of Geography.” Topoi 20(2): 149–159.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2003a. “Fictional Characters and Literary Practices.” The British Journal of Aesthetics 43(2).
Thomasson, Amie L. 2003b. “Speaking of Fictional Characters.” Dialectica 57(2): 205–224.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2003c. “Roman Ingarden.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2003/entries/ingarden/.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2003d. “Foundations for a Social Ontology.” Protosociology 18–19: 269–290.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2003e. “Realism and Human Kinds.” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 67(3): 580–609, doi:10.1111/j.1933-1592.2003.tb00309.x.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2004a. “Methods of Categorization.” in Formal Ontology in Information Systems. Proceedings of the Third International Conference (FOIS-2004), edited by Achille C. Varzi and Laure Vieu, pp. 3–16. Amsterdam: IOS Press.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2004b. “The Ontology of Art.” in The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics, edited by Peter Kivy, pp. 78–92. Blackwell Philosophy Guides. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, doi:10.1002/9780470756645.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2004c. “Categories.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2004/entries/categories/.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2005a. “First-Person Knowledge in Phenomenology.” in Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Mind, pp. 115–139. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199272457.001.0001.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2005b. “Ingarden and the Ontology of Cultural Objects.” in Existence, Culture, and Persons: The Ontology of Roman Ingarden, pp. 115–136. Phenomenology & Mind n. 5. Heusenstamm b. Frankfurt: Ontos Verlag.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2006. “Debates about the Ontology of Art: What are We Doing Here?” Philosophy Compass 1(3): 245–255.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2007a. Ordinary Objects. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195319910.001.0001.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2007b. “Conceptual Analysis in Phenomenology and Ordinary Language Philosophy.” in The Analytic Turn. Analysis in Early Analytic Philosophy and Phenomenology, edited by Michael Beaney, pp. 270–284. Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy n. 32. London: Routledge.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2007c. “Modal Normativism and the Methods of Metaphysics.” Philosophical Topics 35(1–2): 135–160.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2007d. “Review of Elder (2004).” Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 74(2): 518–523.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2007e. “Artifacts and Human Concepts.” in Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and their Representation , edited by Eric Margolis and Stephen Laurence, pp. 52–74. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199250981.003.0004.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2008a. “Existence Questions.” Philosophical Studies 141(1): 63–78.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2008b. “Phenomenal Consciousness and the Phenomenal World.” The Monist 91(2): 191–214.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2009a. “Social Entities.” in The Routledge Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Robin Le Poidevin, Peter M. Simons, Andrew McGonigal, and Ross P. Cameron, pp. 545–554. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9780203879306.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2009b. “Answerable and Unanswerable Questions.” in Metametaphysics. New Essays on the Foundations of Ontology, edited by David J. Chalmers, David Manley, and Ryan Wasserman, pp. 444–471. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780199546046.003.0015.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2009c. “The Easy Approach to Ontology.” Axiomathes 19(1): 1–15.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2009d. “Artefacts in Metaphysics.” in Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences, edited by Anthonie Meijers, pp. 191–212. Handbook of the Philosophy of Science n. 9. Amsterdam: Elsevier Science Publishers B.V.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2009e. “Categories.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2009/entries/categories/.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2010a. “The Controversy over the Existence of Ordinary Objects.” Philosophy Compass 5(7): 591–601.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2010b. “Fiction Existence and Indeterminacy.” in Fictions and Models. New Essays, edited by John Woods. Basic Philosophical Concepts. München: Philosophia Verlag, doi:10.2307/j.ctv2nrzgsf.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2012a. “Experimental Philosophy and the Methods of Ontology.” The Monist 95(2): 175–199.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2012b. “Research Problems and Methods.” in The Continuum Companion to Metaphysics, edited by Neil A. Manson and Robert Barnard, pp. 14–45. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2013a. “Categories.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2013/entries/categories/.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2013b. “Fictionalism versus Deflationism.” Mind 122(488): 1023–1051.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2013c. “The Ontological Significance of Constitution.” The Monist 96(1): 54–72.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2014a. Ontology Made Easy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199385119.001.0001.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2014b. “It’s a Jumble Out There: How Talk of Levels Leads Us Astray.” American Philosophical Quarterly 51(4): 285–296.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2014c. “Deflationism in Semantics and Metaphysics.” in Metasemantics. New Essays on the Foundations of Meaning, edited by Alexis Burgess and Brett Sherman, pp. 185–213. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199669592.001.0001.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2014d. “The Easy Approach to Ontology: A Defense.” in Philosophical Methodology: The Armchair or the Laboratory?, edited by Matthew C. Haug, pp. 107–125. London: Routledge.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2014e. “Public Artifacts, Intentions, and Norms.” in Artefact Kinds. Ontology and the Human-Made World, edited by Maarten Franssen, Peter Kroes, Thomas A. C. Reydon, and Pieter E. Vermaas, pp. 45–62. Synthese Library n. 365. Dordrecht: Springer, doi:10.1007/978-3-319-00801-1_4.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2014f. “Quizzical Ontology and Easy Ontology.” The Journal of Philosophy 111(9): 502–528.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2015. “Fictional Discourse and FIctionalisms.” in Fictional Objects, edited by Stuart Brock and Anthony Everett, pp. 255–274. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198735595.001.0001.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2016a. “Carnap and the Prospects of Easy Ontology.” in Ontology after Carnap, edited by Stephan Blatti and Sandra Lapointe, pp. 122–144. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199661985.001.0001.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2016b. “Structural Explanations and Norms: Comments on Haslanger (2016).” Philosophical Studies 173(1): 131–139.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2016c. “Easy Ontology and Its Consequences.” in Meanings and Other Things. Themes from the Work of Stephen Schiffer, edited by Gary Ostertag, pp. 34–53. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199684939.001.0001.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2016d. “The Ontology of Literary Works.” in The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Literature, edited by Noël Carroll and John Gibson, pp. 349–358. Routledge Philosophy Companions. London: Routledge.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2016e. “Roman Ingarden.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2016/entries/ingarden/.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2017a. “Metaphysical Disputes and Metalinguistic Negotiation.” Analytic Philosophy 58(1): 1–28.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2017b. “Metaphysics and Conceptual Negotiation.” in Philosophical Issues 27: Metaphysics, edited by Jonathan Schaffer, pp. 364–382. Malden, Massachusetts: Wiley-Blackwell.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2017c. “Husserl on Essences.” Grazer Philosophische Studien 94(3): 436–459.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2017d. “Why we should Still Take it Easy [reply to Contessa (2016)].” Mind 126(503): 769–779.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2017e. “What Can We Do, When We Do Metaphysics?” in The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, edited by Giuseppina D’Oro and Søren Overgaard, pp. 101–121. Cambridge Companions to Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781316344118.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2018a. “Changing Metaphysics: What Difference does it Make?” in Metaphysics, edited by Anthony O’Hear, pp. 139–163. Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement n. 82. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2018b. “Categories.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/spr2018/entries/categories/.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2019a. “The Ontology of Social Groups.” Synthese 196(12): 4829–4845, doi:10.1007/s11229-016-1185-y.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2019b. “What Can Global Pragmatists Say About Ordinary Objects?” in The Nature of Ordinary Objects, edited by Javier Cumpa and Bill Brewer, pp. 235–259. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, doi:10.1017/9781316612897.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2020a. Norms and Necessity. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780190098193.001.0001.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2020b. “A Pragmatic Method for Conceptual Ethics.” in Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics, pp. 435–458. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780198801856.003.0021.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2020c. “Truthmakers and Easy Ontology.” in Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, volume XII, edited by Karen Bennett and Dean W. Zimmerman, pp. 3–34. New York: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/oso/9780192893314.001.0001.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2020d. “Roman Ingarden.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/ingarden/.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2021a. “Norms and Modality.” in The Routledge Handbook of Modality, edited by Otávio Bueno and Scott A. Shalkowski, pp. 146–155. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2021b. “Easy Ontology.” in The Routledge Handbook of Metametaphysics, edited by Ricki Leigh Bliss and J. T. M. Miller, pp. 159–170. Routledge Handbooks in Philosophy. London: Routledge, doi:10.4324/9781315112596.
Thomasson, Amie L. 2022. “Categories.” in The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Stanford, California: The Metaphysics Research Lab, Center for the Study of Language; Information, https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/win2022/entries/categories/.
Woodruff Smith, David and Thomasson, Amie L. 2005. Phenomenology and the Philosophy of Mind. Oxford: Oxford University Press, doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199272457.001.0001.

Further References

Chakrabarti, Arindam. 1997. Denying Existence. The Logic, Epistemology and Pragmatics of Negative Existentials and Fictional Discourse. Synthese Library n. 261. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers.
Contessa, Gabriele. 2016. “It Ain’t Easy: Fictionalism, Deflationism, and Easy Arguments in Ontology.” Mind 125(499): 763–773.
Elder, Crawford L. 2004. Real Natures and Familiar Objects. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Haslanger, Sally. 2016. “What is a (Social) Structural Explanation?” Philosophical Studies 173(1): 113–130, doi:10.1007/s11098-014-0434-5.