Recent publications
Book
Silk, A 2019, Semantics with assignment variables. Cambridge University Press.
Silk, A 2016, Discourse Contextualism: a framework for contextualist semantics and pragmatics. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198783923.001.0001
Article
Silk, A 2022, 'Challenges for independence-driven and context-repair responses to the proviso problem', Natural Language Semantics, vol. 30, no. 3, pp. 363-377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-022-09194-6
Silk, A 2019, 'Evaluational Adjectives', Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. https://doi.org/10.1111/phpr.12635
Silk, A 2019, 'Expectation biases and context management with negative polar questions', Journal of Philosophical Logic, pp. 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-019-09512-0
Silk, A 2019, 'Theories of vagueness and theories of law', Legal Theory, vol. 25, no. 2, pp. 132-152. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1352325219000028
Silk, A 2018, 'Commitment and states of mind with mood and modality', Natural Language Semantics, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 125-166. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11050-018-9144-4
Silk, A 2017, 'How to embed an epistemic modal: attitude problems and other defects of character', Philosophical Studies, vol. 174, no. 7, pp. 1773–1799. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11098-016-0827-8
Silk, A 2017, 'Modality, Weights, and Inconsistent Premise Sets', Journal of Semantics, vol. 34, no. 4, pp. 683-707. https://doi.org/10.1093/jos/ffx014
Chapter (peer-reviewed)
Silk, A 2022, Weak and strong necessity modals: on linguistic means of expressing “a primitive concept ought”. in B Dunaway & D Plunkett (eds), Meaning, decision, and norms: themes from the work of Allan Gibbard. Michigan Publishing, pp. 203-245. https://doi.org/10.3998/mpub.9948199
Silk, A 2017, Normative Language in Context. in Oxford Studies in Metaethics, Volume 12. Oxford University Press.
Chapter
Silk, A 2018, Nietzsche and contemporary metaethics. in P Katsafanas (ed.), The Nietzschean Mind (Routledge philosophical minds). Routledge.
Silk, A 2017, Metaethical Contextualism. in T Mcpherson & D Plunkett (eds), The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics. 1st Edition edn, Routledge, New York, pp. 102-118. <https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351817929>
Book/Film/Article review
Silk, A 2021, 'Nietzsche's Values: John Richardson, Nietzsche's Values, Oxford University Press, 2020, 546pp., $99.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780190098230', Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, vol. 2021, no. 9. <https://ndpr.nd.edu/reviews/nietzsches-values/>
Silk, A 2016, 'Critical notice: Having it both ways: hybrid theories and modern metaethics', Analysis. https://doi.org/10.1093/analys/anw031
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