Projects
Foundations and Methods of Natural Language Semantics
30 Dec 2016 / 29 Dec 2019 |Semantic Content and Conversational Dynamics
1 Jan 2013 / 31 Dec 2016 |Semantic Content and Context Dependence
1 Jan 2010 / 31 Dec 2012 |PETAF – Perspectival Thoughts and Facts
1 Jan 2010 / 31 Dec 2013 |PERSP – Philosophy of Perspectival Thoughts and Facts
17 Dec 2009 / 15 Dec 2015 |List of Publications
"Moralischer Relativismus " (German translation of "Moral Relativism" (2015).
In Markus Rüther (ed.), Grundkurs Metaethik. Münster: Mentis Verlag.
"Aesthetic Judge-Dependence and Expertise "
Inquiry 59, 589–617.
Review of John MacFarlane, Assessment Sensitivity [CORRECTED VERSION]
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"About Concerns "
In Ilse Depraetere and Raphael Salkie (eds.), Semantics and Pragmatics: Drawing a Line, Amsterdam: Springer, 197–214.
"Propositionen "
In Nikola Kompa (ed), Handbuch Sprachphilosophie, Stuttgart/Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler.
"Moral Relativism "
In Tim Crane (ed.), Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy 2015, London: Routledge.
"Conventions in Language "
Keith Brown (ed.), Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, Oxford: Elsevier Publishers 2006. Reprinted in Alex Barber and Robert Stainton (eds),Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics, Oxford: Elsevier Publishers 2010.
Wörtliche illokutionäre Kraft. Eine Verteidigung der konventionalen Behauptung
in Eva-Maria Konrad et al. (eds), Fiktion, Wahrheit, Interpretation, Münster: Mentis Verlag.
"Relativism 2: Semantic Content"
Philosophy Compass 10/1, pp. 52–67.
"Relativism 1: Representational Content"
Philosophy Compass 10/1, pp. 38–51.
"The Conversational Role of Centered Contents "
Inquiry 56, pp. 97–121.
Objectivity, Relativism and Context Dependence (text book for master-level course)
Fernuniversität Hagen.
"Agreement and Communication"
Erkenntnis 79, pp. 101–120.
"Should we be Pluralists about Truth?"
in Nicolaj Jang Pedersen and Cory Wright (eds), Truth Pluralism: Current Debates, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2013.
Expressivism and the Syntactic Uniformity of Declarative Sentences
Crítica 29 (December 1997), pp. 3–51.
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.
"Global Relativism and Self-Refutation "
Steven D. Hales (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Relativism, Oxford: Blackwell.
"Conversational Score, Assertion and Testimony "
in Jessica Brown and Herman Cappelen (eds), New Essays on Assertion, Oxford Oxford University Press.
“Sittenvielfalt und Moralischer Relativismus ”
in Gerhard Ernst (ed.): Moralischer Relativismus, Paderborn: Mentis.
Arguing about Language (edited by Darragh Byrne and Max Kölbel)
London: Routledge.
Relative Truth (edited by Manuel García-Carpintero and Max Kölbel)
Oxford: Oxford University Press
Truth without Objectivity (table of contents , introduction )
London: Routledge
"Literal Force: A Defence of Conventional Assertion "
in Sarah Sawyer (ed.), New Waves in Philosophy of Language, Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan 2010.
"Wright on Disputes of Inclination "
Unpublished paper, deposited here in order to continue to provide access.
“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").
“Sainsbury’s Programme ”. Article for a Book Symposium on Departing from Frege by Mark Sainsbury
Philosophical Books 45, (July 2004), pp. 187–96.
“Wright’s Argument from Neutrality ”
Ratio 10, (April 1997), pp. 35–47.
“Lewis, Language, Lust and Lies ”
Inquiry 41 (Sept 1998), pp. 301–15.
“Saving Relativism from its Saviour ”
Crítica 31 (April 1999), pp. 91–103.
"Edgington on Compounds of Conditionals "
Mind 109 (Jan 2000), pp. 97–108.
"Two Dogmas of Davidsonian Semantics "
Journal of Philosophy 98 (December 2001), pp. 613–35.
"Faultless Disagreement "
Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104 (October 2003), pp. 53–73.
"Moral Relativism "
in Dag Westerstahl and Torbjörn Tännsjö (eds), Lectures on Relativism, Göteborg University 2005.
"Truth in Semantics "
Midwest Studies in Philosophy 32 (2008), pp. 242–57.
"' True' as Ambiguous "
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 77 (September 2008), pp.359–84.
"Motivations for Relativism "
in Garcia-Carpintero and Kölbel (eds.), Relative Truth, Oxford: Oxford University Press 2008, pp. 1–38.
“How to Spell Out Genuine Relativism and How to Defend Indexical Relativism”
International Journal of Philosophical Studies 15 (July 2007), p. 281–288.
"Indexical Relativism vs Genuine Relativism "
International Journal of Philosophical Studies 12 (Oct. 2004), pp. 297–313.
"The Evidence for Relativism"
Synthese 166 (January 2009), pp. 375–95.
"Vagueness as Semantic "
Dietz and Moruzzi (eds.): Cuts and Clouds: Vagueness, its Nature and its Logic, Oxford: Oxford University Press
