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

Barber, Alex and Cordell, Sean (2023). An Overview of Social Roles and Their Ethics. In: Barber, Alex and Cordell, Sean eds. The Ethics of Social Roles. Oxford Academic, pp. 1–22.

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Barber, Alex (2023). Participatory Wellbeing and Roles. In: Barber, Alex and Cordell, Sean eds. The Ethics of Social Roles. Oxford: Oxford Academic, pp. 278–297.

Barber, Alex (2023). Freedom of expression meets deepfakes. Synthese, 202(2), article no. 40.

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

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

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, 7(3) pp. 317–341.

Barber, A. (2006). Testimony and illusion. Croatian Journal of Philosophy, 6(3) pp. 401–429.

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

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 (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.