


Publications
Books

Erasing History: How Fascists rewrite the Past to Control the Future
One Signal Press, 2024
Translated into German, Italian, Chinese (Complex), Ukrainian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Portugal), Polish, Spanish, Catalan, and Turkish
The Politics of Language
(with David Beaver)
Princeton University Press, 2023
Reviews in Language, Mind, Ethics, Analysis, Perspectives on Politics, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews


How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them
Penguin Random House, 2018
NY Times Bestseller
Translated into Greek, Portuguese/Brazilian, Portuguese/Portuguese, Italian, Spanish, Catalan, Croatian, Serbian, Persian, Japanese, German, Polish, Swedish, Thai, Finnish, Tamil, Turkish, Korean, Murathi, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Chinese (Complex), Lithuanian, Romanian and French.
Selected Reviews (out of many):
How Propaganda Works
Princeton UP, 2015, Paperback, 2016
Translated into Simplified Chinese (Taiwan), Traditional Chinese (mainland China), Japanese, Turkish, and Italian
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Special Issues of Journals or Journal Symposia
- Theoria 31.3 (2016)
- Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 96.2 (March, 2018)
- Global Discourse 7.2&3 (2017)
Reviews:
- Bookforum
- Constellations
- The New York Times
- Analysis
- Political Theory
- Ethics
- Mind
- Times Literary Supplement
- The National
- The Australian
- The New Rambler
- Australian Book Review
- Ethical Theory and Moral Practice
- The Good Society
- Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
- Survival: Global Politics and Strategy
- Marx and Philosophy
- The Weekly Sift (blog review)
- Desmog Blog (also appeared in the Huffington Post and The National Observer)
- Voegelinview
- Spinwatch
- Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung
- Revista Brasileira de Ciencias Socias


Know How
Oxford UP, 2011
Some reviews:
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Philosophical Quarterly, Zeitschrift für Philosophische Literatur, International Journal of Philosophical Studies
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Book Symposium, with contributions by Imogen Dickie, Mark Schroeder, and Robert Stalnaker
Knowledge and Practical Interests
Oxford UP, 2005
Some reviews:
Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews, Mind, Nous (critical study)
Philosophy and Phenomenological Research Book Symposium, with contributions by Gilbert Harman, Ram Neta, and Stephen Schiffer


Language in Context
Oxford UP, 2007
Papers
Recent Papers*
*Most link to penultimate versions – for citation, check the journal or book. Some links are temporarily unavailable.
- Titus Kaphar: Undoing Myths, Gagosian Quarterly (January, 2026)
- Neutrality (with David Beaver), in Matthew Cogden and Alice Crary (Eds.), Philosophical Topics: Social Visibility
- The Legacy of Charles Mills: The Real vs. The Ideal, IAI News (2021)
- Statement to the January 6 Committee (with Federico Finchelstein)
- Democratic Lies and Fascist Lies, Nomos (2021)
- Propaganda (with Anne Quaranto), in Justin Khoo and Rachel Sterken (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language (2021) pp. 125-46
- The Philosophy of Fascism, The Philosopher 107.2 (Spring, 2019)
- Toward a Non-Ideal Philosophy of Language (with David Beaver), New School Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 39.2 (2019): 501-545.
- How Fascism Works: A Reply to Peter Ludlow, Politics and Letters, January 2019
- Skill, Nous 51.4 (2017): 713-726 (with Timothy Williamson)
- The Emergency Manager: Strategic Racism, Technocracy, and the Poisoning of Flint’s Children, The Good Society 25.1 (2016): 1-45
- Is Epistemology Tainted?, Disputatio, Vol. VIII, No. 42, May 2016: 1-36
- On a Case for Truth Relativism, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 92.1, 2016: 179-188
- Knowledge_Habit_Practice_Skill, Journal of Philosophical Research 40, 2015: 315-323
- Constructing Meanings, Analysis 74.4 (October), 2014: 662-676
- Motor skill depends on knowledge of facts, Frontiers of Human Neuroscience 7, 2013 (with John Krakauer)
- Precis of Know How, and Replies to Imogen Dickie, Mark Schroeder, and Robert Stalnaker, Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 85.3, 2012
- “Empirical Tests of Interest Relative Invariantism” (with Chandra Sripada), Episteme 9.1, 2012: 3-26
- “Singular Thoughts and Singular Propositions” (with Joshua Armstrong), Philosophical Studies 154.2, 2011: 205-222
- Knowing (How), Nous 45.2, 2011: 207-238.
- “Assertion” and Intentionality, Philosophical Studies 151.1, 2010: 87-113
- On ‘Average’ (with Christopher Kennedy), Mind 118, 2009: 583-646
- Knowledge and Certainty, Philosophical Issues 18, 2008: 33-55.
- Knowledge and Action (with John Hawthorne), The Journal of Philosophy 105.10, 2008: 571-590.
- Philosophy of Language in the Twentieth Century, The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century Philosophy (London: Routledge Press, 2008): 382-437
- Introduction to Language in Context, Language in Context (Oxford University Press, 2007)
- Precis of Knowledge and Practical Interests and Replies to Critics (Gilbert Harman, Ram Neta, and Stephen Schiffer), Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75.1 (2007)
- Hornsby on the Phenomenology of Speech, The Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume 79 (2005): 131-46.
- Fallibilism and Concessive Knowledge Attributions, Analysis 65.2, 2005: 126-31
- Semantics in Context, Contextualism in Philosophy: Knowledge, Meaning, and Truth, Preyer and Peter (ed.) (OUP, 2005): 221-54.
- On the Linguistic Basis for Contextualism, Philosophical Studies 119, 2004: 119-146
- Context, Interest-Relativity, and the Sorites, Analysis 63.4 (2003): 269-80.
- Modality and What is Said, Philosophical Perspectives 16: (2002): 321-44.
- Hermeneutic Fictionalism, Midwest Studies 25, French and Wettstein (ed.) (Blackwell, 2001): 36-71
- Knowing How (with Timothy Williamson), The Journal of Philosophy 98.8 2001: 411-44.
Shorter Replies and Reviews
- Intellectualism and the Language of Thought: A reply to Roth and Cummins, Bartels and Newen (editors), Knowledge and Representation (CSLI Publications, 2011): 41-50
- Hornsby on the Phenomenology of Speech, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 79 2005: 131-145
- Review of Jeffrey King’s Complex Demonstratives, Philosophical Review
- Review of Robyn Carson’s Thoughts and Utterances, Mind and Language 20.3, 2005: 364-68.
- Review of Francois Recanati’s Literal Meaning, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
Some older papers
- Persons and their Properties, The Philosophical Quarterly, 48, 1998: 159-175.
- Names and Rigid Designation, A Companion to the Philosophy of Language, Hale and Wright, ed., (Oxford, Blackwell Press, 1997): 555-585.
- Rigidity and Content, Language, Thought, and Logic: Essays in Honour of Michael Dummett, edited by Richard Heck, Jnr. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997): 131-156
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