Prof. Wayne A. Davis

Georgetown University, USA

Professor

Email: davisw@georgetown.edu

Qualifications

1977 Ph.D., Princeton University

1973 B.A., University of Michigan

Publications (Selected)

1. Davis, W. A. (2024). Actuality, indexicality, and knowledge. Intercultural Pragmatics, 21(3), 277-306.
2. Davis, W. A. (2023). EPISTEMIC POSSIBILITY, CONCESSIVE KNOWLEDGE ATTRIBUTIONS, AND FALLIBILISM. Journal of Philosophy, 120(12).
3. Davis, W. A. (2023). Loose talk, the context of assessment, and skeptical invariantism. Inquiry, 1-18.
4. Davis, W. (2023). Names as predicates and referring terms. Accessed on Oct 2nd.
5. Davis, W. A. (2022). Quotational reports. Linguistics and Philosophy, 45(5), 1063-1090.
6. Davis, W. A. (2021). Cognitive propositions and semantic expressions. Intercultural Pragmatics, 18(3), 337-358.
7. Davis, W. A. (2021). Propositions as structured cognitive event‐types. Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, 102(3), 665-692.
8. Davis, W. A. (2021). Cognitive propositions and semantic values. Inquiry, 64(4), 383-423.
9. Davis, W. A. (2020). Propositions and attitudinal objects. Theoretical Linguistics, 46(3-4), 219-240.
10. Baqir, M., Roden, A. C., & Moua, T. (2020, April). Amyloid in the lung. In Seminars in Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine (Vol. 41, No. 02, pp. 299-310). Thieme Medical Publishers.
11. Davis, W. A. (2018). Three accounts of propositional relation reports. Intercultural Pragmatics, 15(2), 237-269.
12. Davis, W. A. (2017). Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning, by Scott Soames: Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2015, pp. ix+ 241, US $35 (hardback).
13. Davis, W. A. (2017). Loose use and belief variation. In The Routledge handbook of epistemic contextualism (pp. 218-229). Routledge.
14. Davis, W. A. (2017). Berg’s answer to frege’s puzzle. Philosophia, 45, 19-34.
15. Davis, W. A. (2017). Ideo-and auto-reflexive quotation. The semantics and pragmatics of quotation, 303-333.
16. Davis, W. A. (2016). A theory of saying reports. In Indirect reports and pragmatics: Interdisciplinary studies (pp. 291-332). Cham: Springer International Publishing.
17. Davis, W. A. (2015). The semantics of actuality terms: Indexical vs. descriptive theories. Noûs, 49(3), 470-503.
18. Davis, W. A. (2015). Knowledge claims and context: belief. Philosophical Studies, 172, 399-432.

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