Selected Publications by Andrew Woodfield
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Books
Teleology (1976) Cambridge University Press (232pp + vii). Korean translation by Weon-Ki Yoo
published in 2005 by Keimyung University Press.
Thought and Object: Essays on Intentionality (1982)-Editor. A collection of original essays by
Daniel C. Dennett, Kent Bach, Tyler Burge, Stephen Stich, Colin McGinn and Andrew
Woodfield. Clarendon Press, Oxford (316pp + xi)
A Selection of Papers
`Two Categories of Content' (1986) Mind and Language I, 319-354
`On The Very Idea of Acquiring a Concept' (1987), in Philosophical Perspectives on
Developmental Psychology (ed) J. Russell. Blackwell, Oxford. 17-30.
’Conceptions'(1991) in Mind and Content, Mind vol C, 4. 547-572
`Un Modèle à Deux Etapes de la Formation des Concepts' (1992), in Introduction aux Sciences
Cognitives (ed) Daniel Andler, pp273-290. Editions Gallimard, Paris.
'Do Your Concepts Develop?' (1993), in Philosophy and Cognitive Science, (ed) C. Hookway and
D. Peterson, pp 41-67. Cambridge University Press
'Does Concept-Acquisition Depend on Language-Learning?' (1994), Pragmatics and Cognition 2,
pp307-325.
'Stage-Setting in Intentional Discourse' (1994), in Philosophy and the Cognitive Sciences:
Proceedings of the 16th International Wittgenstein Symposium, (eds) B. Smith and R. Casati, pp
294-305. Vienna, Holder-Pichler-Tempsky 1994
'Languishing Languages' (1995), University of Bristol Newsletter 25, no.8, p8.
'The Last Word' (1995), Nonesuch (University of Bristol Magazine) vol 6..1, 34-36.
‘Which Theoretical Concepts Do Children Use?’ (1996), Philosophical Papers XXV 1-20
‘Social Externalism and Conceptual Diversity’ (1997), in Thought and Language (ed) J.Preston.
Cambridge University Press, 77-102
‘The Obligation to Provide a Voice for Small Languages: Implications for the Broadcast Media
in India’(1998), in International Satellite Broadcasting in South Asia (eds) Srinivas R. Melkote,
Peter Shields and Binod C. Agrawal. Lanham, Univ. Press of America, 105-121
'Commitments Defined with the Help of Public Concepts' (2000), in Believing and Accepting (ed)
P. Engel. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 221-242.
‘Reference and Deference’ (2000), Mind and Language 15, 4 , 433-451.
‘On Concept-Learning Experiments – so-called’ (2001) in Actas del III Congreso de la Sociedad
Española de Filosofía Analítica (eds) Acero, J.J., Camós Abril, F., and Villanueva Fernández, N.
Granada, University of Granada, pp239-246.
Review of Furnishing the Mind: Concepts and Their Perceptual Basis, by Jesse J. Prinz, (2004),
Mind 113, no 449, 210-214
Review of Natural Kinds and Conceptual Change, by Joseph LaPorte, Cambridge University
Press, (2005), Philosophical Books 46, No 3, 272-3.
‘El método “de sillón” para investigar cómo la gente categoriza cosas’ (2006) in Perspectivas
Contemporáneas sobre la Cognición: Percepción, Categorización y Conceptualización , (ed)
Juan C. González. Siglo XXI editores, México, D.F, 69-89.
‘Reference and Deference’ – amended version (2006) in What Determines Content? The
Internalism/Externalism Dispute, (ed) Tomas Marvan. Cambridge Scholars Press, Cambridge
Review of Language: A Biological Model, by Ruth Millikan, Clarendon Press Oxford, (2007),
Philosophical Books 48, 279-281
‘Public Words Considered as Vehicles of Thinking’ (2007) in Explaining the Mental: Naturalist
and Non-Naturalist Approaches to Mental Acts and Processes, edited by Carlo Penco, Michael
Beaney and Massimiliano Vignolo. Newcastle, Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Media Contributions
'The Conservation of Endangered Languages' (November 1994), background article for seminar
held in Bristol in April 1995.
'Report of Seminar held on April 21 1995 on the Conservation of Endangered Languages'
Both are archived at http://faculty.ed.umuc.edu/~jmatthew/articles/langconf.html
Website for conference celebrating John Locke Day 23rd October 2004,
http://www.bris.ac.uk/philosophy/department/events/locke.html
‘Locke’s Life and Works’, public address commemorating the tercentenary of the death of John
Locke delivered at Wrington Parish Church on 28th October 2004, published as a booklet by
Wrington Parish Council 2004, pp 1-10. Available on-line from:
www.wringtonsomerset.org.uk/morelocke/woodfieldonlocke.html