Stephen Laurence
Edited Books
Creations of the Mind: Theories of Artifacts and Their Representation
(co-edited with Eric Margolis). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007.
The Innate Mind: Foundations and the Future
(co-edited with Peter Carruthers and Stephen Stich). New York: Oxford University Press, 2007.
The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition
(co-edited with Peter Carruthers and Stephen Stich). New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
The Innate Mind: Structure and Content
(co-edited with Peter Carruthers and Stephen Stich). New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Concepts: Core Readings
(co-edited with Eric Margolis). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999.
Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics
(co-edited with Cynthia Macdonald). Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.
Articles
Abstraction and the Origin of General Ideas
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Philosophers' Imprint, forthcoming.
The Scope of the Conceptual
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). In E. Margolis, R. Samuels, & S. Stich (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Cognitive Science, pp. 291-317. Oxford University Press, 2012.
Should the Study of Homo sapiens Be Part of Cognitive Science?
(co-authored with Clark Barrett and Stephen Stich). Topics in Cognitive Science, forthcoming 2012.
Learning Matters: The Role of Learning in Concept Acquisition
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). In Mind & Language, 26.5, pp. 507-39, 2011.
Concepts
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (revised), 2011.
Artifacts and Original Intentions: A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Design Stance
(co-authored with H. Clark Barrett and Eric Margolis). Journal of Cognition and Culture, 8, pp. 1-22, 2008.
How to Learn the Natural Numbers: Inductive Inference and the Acquisition of Number Concepts
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Cognition, 106.2, pp. 924-39, 2008.
Linguistic Determinism and the Innate Basis of Number
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). In P.Carruthers, S.Laurence, & S.Stich (eds.) The Innate Mind: Foundations and the Future, pp. 139-169. Oxford University Press, 2007.
The Ontology Concepts — Abstract Objects or Mental Representations?
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Noûs, vol. 41.4, pp. 561-93, 2007.
Concepts
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2005.
Number and Natural Language
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). In P.Carruthers, S.Laurence, & S.Stich (eds.) The Innate Mind: Structure and Content, pp. 216-35. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Is Linguistics a Branch of Psychology?
In A. Barber (ed.) Epistemology of Language, pp. 69-106. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Concepts and Conceptual Analysis
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, vol. 67.2, pp. 253 - 282. September 2003.
Should We Trust Our Intuitions?: Deflationary Accounts of the Analytic Data
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, vol. 103.3, pp. 299-323, 2003.
Concepts
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). In S. Stich & T. Warfield (eds.) The Blackwell Guide to Philosophy of Mind, pp. 190-213. Blackwell Publishers, 2003.
Radical Concept Nativism
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Cognition, 86.1, pp. 22-55. November 2002.
Lewis's Strawman
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Philosophical Quarterly, vol. 52.206, pp. 22-55. January 2002.
Boghossian on Analyticity
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Analysis, vol. 61.4, pp. 293-302. October 2001.
The Poverty of the Stimulus Argument
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 52, pp. 217-276. June 2001.
Where the Regress Argument Still Goes Wrong: Reply to Knowles
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Analysis, vol. 59.4, pp. 321-7. October 1999.
Concepts and Cognitive Science
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). In E. Margolis & S. Laurence (eds.) Concepts: Core Readings, pp. 3-81. Bradford Books/MIT Press, 1999.
Moral Realism and Twin Earth
(co-authored with Eric Margolis & Angus Dawson). Facta Philosophica, vol. 1.1, pp. 135-65. 1999.
Convention-Based Semantics and the Development of Language
In P. Carruthers & J. Boucher, (eds.) Language and Thought, pp. 201-17. Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Multiple Meanings and the Stability of Content
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Journal of Philosophy, vol. 95.5, pp. 255-63. May 1998.
Regress Arguments Against the Language of Thought
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Analysis, vol. 57.1, pp. 60-6. January 1997.
A Chomskian Alternative to Convention Based Semantics
Mind, vol. 105, pp. 269-301. April 1996.
Intentionality and Naturalism
(co-authored with Stephen Stich). In P. French, T. Uehling, & H. Wettstein, (eds.) Midwest Studies in Philosophy, v 19: Naturalism, pp. 159-82. Notre Dame University Press, 1994.
Reviews & Shorter Pieces
Beyond the Building Blocks Model (Commentary on Carey, Précis of The Origin of Concepts)
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 34.3, pp. 139-140, 2011.
Concepts and Theoretical Unification (Commentary on Machery, Précis of Doing without Concepts)
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). Behavioral and Brain Sciences, vol. 33.2-3, pp. 219-20, 2010.
Introduction
(co-authored with Peter Carruthers and Stephen Stich). In P.Carruthers, S.Laurence, & S.Stich (eds.) The Innate Mind: Foundations and the Future, pp. 3-14. Oxford University Press, 2007.
Introduction: Culture and the Innate Mind
(co-authored with Tom Simpson, Peter Carruthers, & Stephen Stich). In P.Carruthers, S.Laurence, & S.Stich (eds.) The Innate Mind: Culture and Cognition, pp. 3-19. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Introduction: Nativism Past & Present
(co-authored with Tom Simpson, Peter Carruthers, & Stephen Stich). In P.Carruthers, S.Laurence, & S.Stich (eds.) The Innate Mind: Structure and Content, pp. 3-19. Oxford University Press, 2005.
Innate Ideas
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed.., volume 2 Elsevier, pp. 689-91, 2005.
Concepts
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics, 2nd ed.., volume 2 Elsevier, pp. 817-19, 2005.
Review of Fiona Cowie's What's Within? Nativism Reconsidered
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). European Journal of Philosophy, vol. 9.2, pp. 242-7, August 2001.
Review of Jerry Fodor's Concepts: Where Cognitive Science Went Wrong
(co-authored with Eric Margolis). British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, vol. 50, pp. 487-91, 1999.
Introduction: Metaphysics and Ontology
(co-authored with Cynthia Macdonald). In S. Laurence and C. Macdonald (eds.) Contemporary Readings in the Foundations of Metaphysics, pp. 1-7. Blackwell Publishers, 1998.