Stephen Barker

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Expertise Summary

Before joining the Department, Stephen Barker held post-doc positions at Monash University Australia, UNAM (Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) and the University of Tasmania. He works on the philosophy of language, metaphysics and metaethics and can often be heard proclaiming his slogans: No quantification theory! No sense/force distinction! No semantics of conditions! No metaphysics!

Recent Publications

• BARKER, S.J., 2007. Global expressivism: language agency without semantics, reality without metaphysics University of Nottingham ePrints. Available at: <http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/696/>
• BARKER, S., 2004. Renewing meaning: a speech-act theoretic approach Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• BARKER, S., 2003. Truth and conventional implicature Mind. 112(445), 1-33
• BARKER, S., 2003. Counterfactual analyses of causation: the problem of effects and epiphenomena revisited Noûs. 37(1), 133-150

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• BARKER, S.J., 2007. Global expressivism: language agency without semantics, reality without metaphysics University of Nottingham ePrints. Available at: <http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/696/>
• BARKER, S., 2004. Renewing meaning: a speech-act theoretic approach Oxford: Clarendon Press.
• BARKER, S., 2003. Truth and conventional implicature Mind. 112(445), 1-33
• BARKER, S., 2003. Counterfactual analyses of causation: the problem of effects and epiphenomena revisited Noûs. 37(1), 133-150
• BARKER, S., 2003. A dilemma for the counterfactual analysis of causation Australasian Journal of Philosophy. 81(1), 62-77
• BARKER, S. and DOWE, P., 2003. Paradoxes of multi-location Analysis. VOL 63(PART 2), 106-113
• BARKER, S., 2003. Analysing Chancy Causation without Appeal to Chance-Raising. In: DOWE, P. and NOORDHOF, P., eds., Cause and Chance: Causation in an Indeterministic World London : Routledge.
• BARKER, S., 2003. Comments: The Experiential Thesis: Audi on Intrinsic Value SOUTHERN JOURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY. VOL 41(SUPPL), 57-61
• BARKER, S., 2002. Review of Illocutionary Acts and Sentence Meaning by William P. Alston, London: Cornell University Press Mind. 111, 633-639
• BARKER, S., 2002. Problems with Horgan and Timmons' Nondescriptive Cognitivism 62,
• BARKER, S., 2000. Is value content a component of conventional implicature? Analysis. VOL 60(PART 3), 268-279
• BARKER, S., 1999. Counterfactuals, Probabilistic Counterfactuals and Causation Mind. VOL 108(ISSUE 431), 427-470
• BARKER, S., 1998. Predetermination and tense probabilism Analysis. VOL 58(NUMBER 4), 290-296
• BARKER, S., 1997. E-Type Pronouns, DRT, Dynamic Semantics and the Quantifier Variable-Binding Model Linguistics and Philosophy. VOL 20(NUMBER 2), 195-228
• BARKER, S., 1997. Material Implication and General Indicative Conditionals Philosophical Quarterly. VOL 47(NUMBER 187), 195-211
• BARKER, S., 1996. Parsing if-sentences and the conditions of sentencehood Analysis. VOL 56(NUMBER 4), 210-218
• BARKER, S., 1995. Towards a Pragmatic Theory of "if" 78, 185-211
• BARKER, S., 1994. The Consequent-Entailment Problem for Even if 17, 249-260
• BARKER, S., 1994. Causation, Truth and Coherence Analysis. 54, 179-182
• BARKER, S., 1993. Conditional Excluded Middle, Conditional Assertion and Only if Analysis. 53, 254-261
• BARKER, S., 1991. Even, Still, and Counterfactuals 14, 1-38