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21The Expressive Dimension and Score-changing Function of Speech Acts from the Evolutionist Point of ViewGrazer Philosophische Studien 96 (3): 381-398. 2019.The aim of this paper is twofold. First, the author examines Mitchell Green’s account of the expressive power and score-changing function of speech acts; second, he develops an alternative, though also evolutionist approach to explaining these two hallmarks of verbal interaction. After discussing the central tenets of Green’s model, the author draws two distinctions – between externalist and internalist aspects of veracity, and between perlocutionary and illocutionary credibility – and argues th…Read more
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Jakiej teorii prawdy relatywiści potrzebują?Filozofia Nauki 3. 2003.The aim of this paper is to justify the claim that relativism assumes a deflationary account of truth. In the first section the author articulates some terminological conventions regarding the use of the terms "relativism" and "deflationism". It is assumed that relativism advocates two theses. The first one is the thesis of relativity. It says that opinions adopted by members of some community depend on social or cultural factors determining their cognitive point of view. The second one is the t…Read more
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17The many faces of speech act theory — editorial to special issue on speech actionsLodz Papers in Pragmatics 5 (1): 1-8. 2009.The many faces of speech act theory — editorial to special issue on speech actions
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Niedookreślenie językowe z punktu widzenia teorii zwrotnych warunków prawdziwościFilozofia Nauki 17 (3). 2009.The aim of the paper is to present the theory of reflexive truth conditions with particular reference to the literalist account of communicative competence it offers. Like contextualist conceptions, the theory allows for the phenomenon of linguistic underdeterminacy. Unlike most popular accounts of communicative competence, however, it takes the phenomenon to be a property of the semantic, rather than the cognitive correlate of an utterance; it is claimed, namely, that the semantic correlate of …Read more
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31Spór o naturę prawdy z punktu widzenia teorii czynności mowyFilozofia Nauki 2 (2006): 131-146. 2006.There are at least three distinct arguments about the nature of truth. The first two are, respectively, between correspondence theories and epistemic theories and between inflationism and deflationism. The aim of the paper is to characterise the third dispute whose starting question is whether truth and truth conditions are semantic or pragmatic concepts. In other words, the question is whether it is semantics or pragmatics that provides an adequate account of truth conditions of utterances. The…Read more
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5Kontekstowe wspomaganie rozpoznawania barw: przekonania przenikające czy asocjacje między kształtami a barwami?Ruch Filozoficzny 75 (2): 199. 2019.
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47My aim in this paper is to defend the view that the processes underlying early vision are informationally encapsulated. Following Marr (1982) and Pylyshyn (1999) I take early vision to be a cognitive process that takes sensory information as its input and produces the so-called primal sketches or shallow visual outputs: informational states that represent visual objects in terms of their shape, location, size, colour and luminosity. Recently, some researchers (Schirillo 1999, Macpherson 2012) ha…Read more
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31Illocution and accommodation in the functioning of presumptionsSynthese 198 (7): 6207-6244. 2019.In this paper, I develop a speech-act based account of presumptions. Using a score-keeping model of illocutionary games, I argue that presumptions construed as speech acts can be grouped into three illocutionary act types defined by reference to how they affect the state of a conversation. The paper is organized into two parts. In the first one, I present the score-keeping model of speech act dynamics; in particular, I distinguish between two types of mechanisms—the direct mechanism of illocutio…Read more
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35Accommodation and ConventionPolish Journal of Philosophy 10 (1): 99-115. 2016.The paper develops a non-Gricean account of accommodation: a contextadjusting process guided by the assumption that the speaker’s utterance constitutes an appropriate conversational move. The paper is organized into three parts. The first one reconstructs the basic tenets of Lepore and Stone's non-Gricean model of meaningmaking, which results from integrating direct intentionalism and extended semantics. The second part discusses the phenomenon of accommodation as it occurs in conversational pra…Read more
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Deflacjonizm a element normatywnyFilozofia Nauki 2. 2001.The author offers a critical analysis of so called deflationary conception of truth. According to the conception in question an adequate theory of truth contains nothing more than instances of a schema: „p” is true iff p. In short, truth is a disquotation. After giving a brief presentation of main deflationary ideas, the author argues that deflationism conflicts with normative epistemology. In other words, being a form of naturalism it leads to elimination of so called normative element from the…Read more
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62An interactional account of illocutionary practiceLanguage Sciences 47 43-55. 2015.The paper aims to develop an interactional account of illocutionary practice, which results from integrating elements of Millikan's biological model of language within the framework of Austin's theory of speech acts. The proposed account rests on the assumption that the force of an act depends on what counts as its interactional effect or, in other words, on the response that it conventionally invites or attempts to elicit. The discussion is divided into two parts. The first one reconsiders Aust…Read more
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