Logic, Language and Cognition Research Group

Selection of Publications

• Max Kölbel. 2013

  Should we be Pluralists about Truth ?

  in Nicolaj Jang Pedersen and Cory Wright (eds), Truth Pluralism: Current Debates, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2012.

• Max Kölbel. 2013

  Agreement and Communication
  

  Forthcoming in Erkenntnis.
  

• Max Kölbel. 2013

  "The Conversational Role of Centered Contents "
  

  Forthcoming in Inquiry.
  

• Max Kölbel. 2011

  "Global Relativism and Self-Refutation "
  

  Steven D. Hales (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Relativism, Oxford: Blackwell.
  

• Max Kölbel. 2011

  "Conversational Score, Assertion and Testimony "
  

  in Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen (eds), New Essays on Assertion, Oxford Oxford University Press.
  

• Max Kölbel. 2011

  Objectivity, Relativism and Context Dependence (text book for master-level course)

  Fernuniversität Hagen.
  

• Max Kölbel. 2010

  "Vagueness as Semantic "
  

  Dietz and Moruzzi (eds.): Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, its Nature and its Logic, Oxford: Oxford University Press
  

• Max Kölbel. 2009

  "The Evidence for Relativism"
  

  Synthese 166 (January 2009), pp. 375–95.

• Max Kölbel. 2009

  "Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion "

  in Sarah Sawyer (ed.), New Waves in Philosophy of Language, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010.
  

• Max Kölbel, Darragh Byrne. 2009

  Arguing about Language (edited by Darragh Byrne and Max Kölbel)
  

  London: Routledge.
  

• Max Kölbel. 2009

  “Sittenvielfalt und Moralischer Relativismus ”

  in Gerhard Ernst (ed.): Moralischer Relativismus, Paderborn: Mentis.
  

• Max Kölbel. 2009

   English translation of pp. 25-36 as well as the last paragraph of Gottlob Frege: “Über Sinn und Bedeutung”. The translation is by Max Kölbel and may be used unchanged for non-commercial purposes, as long as the source is properly acknowledged. 

  This translation has appeared also in Darragh Byrne and Max Kölbel (eds), Arguing about Language, London: Routledge 2010, pp. 49–55.

• Max Kölbel. 2008

  "Truth in Semantics "
  

  Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (2008), pp. 242–57.

• Max Kölbel. 2008

  "' True' as Ambiguous "
  

  Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (September 2008), pp.359–84.

• Max Kölbel. 2008

  "Motivations for Relativism "
  

  in Garcia-Carpintero and Kölbel (eds.), Relative Truth, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008, pp. 1–38.

• Max Kölbel, Manuel García-Carpintero. 2008

  Relative Truth (edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Max Kölbel)
  

  Oxford: Oxford University Press
  

• Max Kölbel. 2007

  “How to Spell Out Genuine Relativism and How to Defend Indexical Relativism”

  International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (July 2007), p. 281–288.

• Max Kölbel. 2005

  "Moral Relativism "
  

  in Dag Westerstahl and Torbjörn Tännsjö (eds), Lectures on Relativism, Göteborg University 2005.

• Max Kölbel. 2004

  "Indexical Relativism vs Genuine Relativism "
  

  International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (Oct. 2004), pp. 297–313.

• Max Kölbel. 2004

  “Sainsbury’s Programme ”. Article for a Book Symposium on Departing from Frege by Mark Sainsbury

  Philosophical Books 45, (July 2004), pp. 187–96.

• Max Kölbel. 2004

  “Zwei Arten von Relativismus ”

  in R. Bluhm and C. Nimtz (eds.), Selected Papers Contributed to GAP.5, 5th International Congress of the Society for Analytical Philosophy, Bielefeld, 22-26 September 2003, Paderborn: Mentis 2004. (Shortened German version of "Indexical Relativism vs Genuine Relativism").

• Max Kölbel. 2003

  "Faultless Disagreement "
  

  Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104 (October 2003), pp. 53–73.

• Max Kölbel. 2002

  "Wright on Disputes of Inclination "
  

  Unpublished paper, deposited here in order to continue to provide access.
  

• Max Kölbel. 2002

  Truth without Objectivity (table of contents , introduction )
  

  London: Routledge
  

• Max Kölbel. 2001

  "Two Dogmas of Davidsonian Semantics "
  

  Journal of Philosophy 98 (December 2001), pp. 613–35.

• Max Kölbel. 2000

  "Edgington on Compounds of Conditionals "
  

  Mind 109 (Jan 2000), pp. 97–108.

• Max Kölbel. 1999

  “Saving Relativism from its Saviour ”

  Crítica 31 (April 1999), pp. 91–103.

• Max Kölbel. 1998

  “Lewis, Language, Lust and Lies ”

  Inquiry 41 (Sept 1998), pp. 301–15.

• Max Kölbel. 1997

  Expressivism and the Syntactic Uniformity of Declarative Sentences

  Crítica 29 (December 1997), pp. 3–51.

• Max Kölbel. 1997

  “Wright’s Argument from Neutrality ”

  Ratio 10, (April 1997), pp. 35–47.