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223Fictional, Metafictional, ParafictionalProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 118 (1): 25-54. 2018.
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77Contextualism and PolysemyDialectica 71 (3): 379-397. 2017.In this paper, I argue that that polysemy is a two-sided phenomenon. It can be reduced neither to pragmatic modulation nor to ambiguity, for it is a mixture of both. The senses of a polysemous expression result from pragmatic modulation but they are stored in memory, as the senses of an ambiguous expression are. The difference with straightforward ambiguity is that the modulation relations between the senses are transparent to the language users: the senses are felt as related – they form a fami…Read more
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26IV*—Contextual Dependence and Definite DescriptionsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 87 (1): 57-74. 1987.François Recanati; IV*—Contextual Dependence and Definite Descriptions, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society, Volume 87, Issue 1, 1 June 1987, Pages 57–74, h.
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La Transparence et l'énonciation. Pour introduire a la pragmatiqueRevue de Métaphysique et de Morale 85 (4): 529-533. 1980.
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16How Narrow is Narrow Content?Dialectica 48 (3-4): 209-229. 1994.SummaryIn this paper I discuss two influential views in the philosophy of mind: the two‐component picture draws a distinction between ‘narrow content’ and ‘broad content’, while radical externalism denies that there is such a thing as narrow content. I argue that ‘narrow content’ is ambiguous, and that the two views can be reconciled. Instead of considering that there is only one question and three possible answers corresponding to Cartesian internalism, the two‐component picture, and radical ex…Read more
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9Millikan’s Theory of Signs (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 75 (3). 2007.Review of Millikan's book Varieties of Meaning (MIT Press/Bradford Books, 2004).
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84Contextualism and anti-contextualism in the philosophy of languageIn Savas L. Tsohatzidis (ed.), Foundations of Speech Act Theory: Philosophical and Linguistic Perspectives, Routledge. pp. 156-166. 1994.A historical overview, with an attempt to rebut Grice's argument against Contextualism.
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70Empty Thoughts and Vicarious Thoughts in the Mental File FrameworkCroatian Journal of Philosophy 14 (1): 1-11. 2014.Mental files have a referential role—they serve to think about objects in the world—but they also have a meta-representational role: when ‘indexed’, they serve to represent how other subjects think about objects in the world. This additional, meta-representational function of files is invoked to shed light on the uses of empty singular terms in negative existentials and pseudo-singular attitude ascriptions. -/- For a longer version see "Empty Singular Terms in the Mental-File Framework" In Manue…Read more
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75The Fodorian fallacyAnalysis 62 (4): 285-89. 2002.In recent years Fodor has repeatedly argued that nothing epistemic can be essential to, or constitutive of, any concept. This holds in virtue of a constraint which Fodor dubs the Compositionality Constraint. I show that Fodor's argument is fallacious because it rests on an ambiguity.
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Le potentiel illocutionnaire des phrases déclarativesCahiers de Linguistique Française 2 23-39. 1981.
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Processing models for non-literal discourseIn Roberto Casati & Barry Smith (eds.), Philosophy and Cognitive Sciences: Proceedings of the 16th International Wittgenstein Symposium (Kirchberg Am Wechsel, Austria 1993), Wien: Hölder-pichler-tempsky. pp. 277-290. 1994.
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73Anti-Descriptivism, Mental Files, And The Communication Of Singular ThoughtsManuscrito 32 (1): 7-32. 2009.In this paper, I argue that singular thought about an object involves nondescriptive or de re ways of thinking of that object, that is, modes of presentation resting on contextual relations of ‘acquaintance’ to the object. Such modes of presentation I analyse as mental files in which the subject can store information gained through the acquaintance relations in question. I show that the mental -file approach provides a solution to a vexing problem regarding the communication of singular thoughts…Read more
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40Situations and the Structure of ContentIn Kumiko Murasugi & Robert Stainton (eds.), Philosophy and linguistics, Westview Press. pp. 113--165. 1999.An investigation into 'Austinian semantics'. Every utterance is said to express an 'Austinian proposition' consisting of a situation and a fact the situation is presented as supporting. A more recent statement of the theory is to be found in *Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta: an Essay on Metarepresentation* (MIT Press/Bradford Books, 2000).
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Le langage et la penséeIn Alain Berthoz (ed.), Sciences de la Cognition: Actes du grand colloque de prospective, . pp. 137-141. 1991.
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22Perceptual concepts: in defence of the indexical modelSynthese 190 (10): 1841-1855. 2013.Francois Recanati presents the basic features of the *indexical model* of mental files, and defends it against several interrelated objections. According to this model, mental files refer to objects in a way that is analogous to that of indexicals in language: a file refers to an object in virtue of a contextual relation between them. For instance, perception and attention provide the basis for demonstrative files. Several objections, some of them from David Papineau, concern the possibility of …Read more
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19Descriptions and SituationsIn Marga Reimer & Anne Bezuidenhout (eds.), Descriptions and beyond, Oxford University Press. pp. 15-40. 2004.forthcoming.
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10Response to Iglesias' contribution in the proceedings of the Granada workshop
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29Meaning and Force: The Pragmatics of Performative UtterancesPhilosophical Review 100 (2): 297. 1991.
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30On Kripke on DonnellanIn Herman Parret, Marina Sbisa & Jef Verschueren (eds.), Possibilities and Limitations of Pragmatics, John Benjamins. pp. 593-660. 1981.
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Contenu sémantique et contenu cognitif des énoncésIn Daniel Laurier & Francois Lepage (eds.), Essais sur le langage et l'intentionnalité, . pp. 201-226. 1992.
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45Reply to De BrabanterTeorema: International Journal of Philosophy 32 (2): 149-156. 2013.Response to two papers by Philippe De Brabanter in the symposium on *Truth-Conditional Pragmatics* (OUP 2010).
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24It is raining (somewhere)Linguistics and Philosophy 30 (1): 123-146. 2005.The received view about meteorological predicates like ‘rain’ is that they carry an argument slot for a location which can be filled explicitly or implicitly. The view assumes that ‘rain’, in the absence of an explicit location, demands that the context provide a specific location. In an earlier article in this journal, I provided a counter-example, viz. a context in which ‘it is raining’ receives a location-indefinite interpretation. On the basis of that example, I argued that when there is tac…Read more
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Meaning and Force: An IntroductionIn Asa Kasher (ed.), Pragmatics: Critical Concepts, Routledge. pp. 126-143. 1998.
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Contextual DomainsIn Xabier Arrazola (ed.), Discourse, Interaction, and Communication, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 25-36. 1997.