In 2022, I published a book called Talking About. It develops a theory of communicative competence on the basis of my work on reference, confusion, implicit attitudes, and mechanistic explanation in cognitive science. Click here for the book's OUP page.
Reviews, Discussions, etc.
The journal Inquiry hosted a special issue on the book, which includes three commentaries and a response from me:
Mark Bowker, 'A Serpent in the Garden?' [philpapers]
Jessica Keiser, 'Reference and Confusion' [philpapers]
Eliot Michaelson, 'What is the Proper Function of Language?' [doi]
Elmar Unnsteinsson, 'Talking About: A Response to Bowker, Keiser, Michaelson' (forthcoming) [philpapers]The journal Mind & Language has one forthcoming commentary and response from me:
Rachel Goodman, 'Confusion and Explanation'
Elmar Unnsteinsson, 'Identity and Inference'Author-Meets-Critics Session, Montreal APA, January 2023. Critics: Una Stojnić, Dan Harris, Eliot Michaelson
Conference where two days are devoted to the book. Inter-University Centre Dubrovnik, Croatia. Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. September, 2023. Commentaries from: Stephen Neale, Dan Harris, Jessica Keiser, Mark Bowker, Eric Mandelbaum, Rachel Goodman, Indrek Reiland.