Dr Derek Ball
Senior Lecturer
Research areas
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.
PhD supervision
- Nick Allen
- Isabella Bartoli
- Sabina Dominguez Parrado
- Yoshinari Hattori
- Rasmus Overmark
- Amr Salih
- Lara Scheibli
- Haoxu Wang
Selected publications
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Definition and dispute: a defence of temporal externalism
Ball, D. N., 15 Feb 2024, Oxford: Oxford University Press. 208 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Open access
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. 36-58Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter
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Open access
Monsters and the theoretical role of context
Rabern, B. & Ball, D., 22 Mar 2019, In: Philosophy and Phenomenological Research. 98, 2, p. 392-416Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
A puzzle about accommodation and truth
Ball, D. & Huvenes, T. T., Mar 2022, In: Philosophical Studies. 179, 3, p. 759–776 18 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Open access
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 journal › Article › peer-review