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Barber, Alex and Cordell, Sean (2023). The Ethics of Social Roles. Engaging Philosophy. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Barber, Alex and Stainton, Robert J. eds. (2009). Concise Encyclopedia of Philosophy of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier.

Barber, Alex ed. (2003). Epistemology of language. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

Barber, Alex and Stainton, Robert J. (2021). Linguistic Prescriptivism. In: Khoo, Justin and Sterken, Rachel eds. The Routledge Handbook of Social and Political Philosophy of Language. Routledge, pp. 56–69.

Barber, Alexander (2017). Francis Bacon. In: Cameron, Margaret; Hill, Benjamin and Stainton, Robert J. eds. Sourcebook in the History of Philosophy of Language. Springer Graduate Texts in Philosophy. Springer, pp. 497–502.

Barber, Alexander (2011). What refers? How? In: Turner, Ken ed. Making Semantics Pragmatic. Current Research in the Semantics/Pragmatics Interface (24). Bingley: Emerald, pp. 49–80.

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Barber, A. (2005). Co-extensive theories and unembedded definite descriptions. In: Elugardo, Reinaldo and Stainton, Robert J. eds. Ellipsis and Nonsentential Speech. Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy (81). Springer, pp. 185–201.

Barber, Alex (2004). Idiolects. In: Zalta, Edward N. ed. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Palo Alto, Ca., USA: CSLI, University of Stanford.

Barber, Alex (2003). Truth conditions and their recognition. In: Barber, Alex ed. Epistemology of language. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, pp. 367–395.

Barber, Alex (2003). Chapter 1: Introduction. In: Barber, Alex ed. Epistemology of language. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press.

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Barber, Alex (2020). Is metaphysics immune to moral refutation? Acta Analytica, 35(4) pp. 469–492.

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Barber, Alex (2020). Lying, misleading, and dishonesty. Journal of Ethics, 24(2) pp. 141–164.

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Barber, Alex (2013). Understanding as knowledge of meaning. Philosophy Compass, 8(10) pp. 964–977.

Barber, Alex (2013). Science's immunity to moral refutation. Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 91(4) pp. 633–653.

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Barber, Alex (2011). Hedonism and the experience machine. Philosophical Papers, 40(2) pp. 257–278.

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Barber, Alex (2008). Sentence realization again: reply to Rey. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 8(23) pp. 233–240.

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Barber, Alex (2007). Linguistic structure and the brain. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 3(21) pp. 317–341.

Barber, A. (2006). Testimony and illusion. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 3(18) pp. 401–429.

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Barber, Alex (2001). Idiolectal error. Mind and Language, 16(3) pp. 263–283.

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Barber, Alex (2000). A pragmatic treatment of simple sentences. Analysis, 60(268) pp. 300–308.

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Barber, Alex (1998). The pleonasticity of talk about concepts. Philosophical Studies, 89(1) pp. 53–86.

Barber, Alex (1997). Deflated concepts: a reply to Stainton. Crítica: Revista Hispanoamericana de Filosofia, 29(86) pp. 83–105.