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Dr Derek Ball

Arché role: Arché Affiliated Staff

Current Projects: Feminist Philosophy and Social Theory (Affiliated Staff Member) and Language and Mind (Member)

Past Projects: Models, Modality and Meaning (Co-investigator)

 

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Research

Dr Ball's research interests include a wide range of issues in the philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and related areas.  He has written on foundational issues in semantics and the foundations of linguistic meaning and on the nature of concepts and concept possession, and has applied views in these areas to debates about the nature of consciousness, about epistemology, and elsewhere.  His research also includes projects in developmental and comparative psychology.

Selected publications

Definition and dispute: a defence of temporal externalism

Ball, D. N., 15 Feb 2024, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 208 p.

Research output: Book/ReportBook

Revisionary analysis without meaning change (or, could women be analytically oppressed?)

Ball, D. N., 23 Jan 2020, Conceptual Engineering and Conceptual Ethics. Burgess, A., Cappelen, H. & Plunkett, D. (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press, p. 36-58

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceedingChapter

Monsters and the theoretical role of context

Rabern, B. & Ball, D., 22 Mar 2019, In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 98, 2, p. 392-416

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

A puzzle about accommodation and truth

Ball, D. N. & Huvenes, T. T., 4 Jul 2021, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Philosophical Studies. First Online, 18 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review

Capuchin monkeys individuate objects based on spatio-temporal and property/kind information: evidence from looking and reaching measures

Kersken, V., Zhang, D., Gomez, J.-C., Seed, A. M. & Ball, D. N., 1 Aug 2020, In: Animal Behavior and Cognition. 7, 3, p. 343-364 22 p.

Research output: Contribution to journalArticlepeer-review