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Francois Recanati

Institut Jean Nicod
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  • Institut Jean Nicod
    Department of Philosophy- CNRS
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  • Primary Pragmatic Processes
    In Asa Kâšer (ed.), Pragmatics: Critical Concepts. Dawn and delineation. Vol. 1, Routledge. pp. 512-531. 1998.
    Conversational ImplicatureTruth-Conditional TheoriesSemantics-Pragmatics DistinctionSpeaker Meaning …Read more
    Conversational ImplicatureTruth-Conditional TheoriesSemantics-Pragmatics DistinctionSpeaker Meaning and Linguistic MeaningRelevance Theory
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    Does linguistic communication rest on inference?
    Mind and Language 17 (1-2). 2002.
    It is often claimed that, because of semantic underdetermination, one can determine the content of an utterance only by appealing to pragmatic considerations concerning what the speaker means, what his intentions are. This supports ‘inferentialism' : the view that, in contrast to perceptual content, communicational content is accessed indirectly, via an inference. As against this view, I argue that primary pragmatic processes (the pragmatic processes that are involved in the determination of tru…Read more
    It is often claimed that, because of semantic underdetermination, one can determine the content of an utterance only by appealing to pragmatic considerations concerning what the speaker means, what his intentions are. This supports ‘inferentialism' : the view that, in contrast to perceptual content, communicational content is accessed indirectly, via an inference. As against this view, I argue that primary pragmatic processes (the pragmatic processes that are involved in the determination of truth-conditional content) need not involve an inference from premisses concerning what the speaker can possibly intend by his utterance. Indeed, they need not involve any inference at all : communication, I argue, is as direct as perception.
    Linguistic CommunicationContext and Context-Dependence, MiscInferenceSemantics-Pragmatics Distinctio…Read more
    Linguistic CommunicationContext and Context-Dependence, MiscInferenceSemantics-Pragmatics DistinctionEpistemology of TestimonyConsciousness and Content, Misc
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    The communication of first person thoughts
    In Petr Kotatko & John Biro (eds.), Frege: Sense and Reference one Hundred Years later, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 95-102. 1995.
    A discussion of Frege's views concerning the meaning of 'I' and his distinction between the 'I' of soliloquy and the 'I' of conversation.
    The First-Person PronounIndexicals, MiscFirst-Person ContentsLinguistic CommunicationFrege: The Firs…Read more
    The First-Person PronounIndexicals, MiscFirst-Person ContentsLinguistic CommunicationFrege: The First-Person Pronoun
  • La langue universelle et son "inconsistance"
    Critique 387 778-789. 1979.
  • Les Énoncés Performatifs Contribution À la Pragmatique
    . 1981.
    Speech Acts
  •  35
    Philosophie du langage (et de l’esprit)
    Editions Gallimard. 2008.
    Philosophie du langage et philosophie de l'esprit constituent désormais un tout indissociable. Les expressions linguistiques «signifient». Qu'est-ce que cela veut dire? François Recanati distingue trois réponses possibles. Selon la première, signifier c'est (pour une expression linguistique) être associée à des représentations mentales. Selon la deuxième, signifier c'est «faire référence» et renvoyer à quelque chose dans le monde – une réalité extralinguistique. Selon la troisième, enfin, signi…Read more
    Philosophie du langage et philosophie de l'esprit constituent désormais un tout indissociable. Les expressions linguistiques «signifient». Qu'est-ce que cela veut dire? François Recanati distingue trois réponses possibles. Selon la première, signifier c'est (pour une expression linguistique) être associée à des représentations mentales. Selon la deuxième, signifier c'est «faire référence» et renvoyer à quelque chose dans le monde – une réalité extralinguistique. Selon la troisième, enfin, signifier, c'est jouer un rôle distinctif dans cette activité sociale qu'est la parole. La première réponse renvoie aux représentations mentales. Mais qu'est-ce, pour une représentation mentale, que d'avoir un contenu? La vraie question, est-on tenté de penser, est plus générale : qu'est-ce que signifier ou avoir un contenu? Qu'est-ce qu'une représentation (linguistique ou mentale)? Les philosophes contemporains recherchent une théorie du contenu qui soit suffisamment générale pour s'appliquer à la pensée aussi bien qu'au langage. François Recanati nous introduit à leurs efforts, et conclut en faveur de l'approche «pragmatique» inspirée de Wittgenstein. Ce qui fait que la pensée et le langage représentent le monde, c'est avant tout le fait que la pensée et le langage sont dans le monde, qu'ils y ont leur place et y jouent leur rôle.
    Mental Files
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    Can we believe what we do not understand?
    Mind and Language 12 (1): 84-100. 1997.
    In a series of papers, Sperber provides the following analysis of the phenomenon of ill-understood belief (or 'quasi-belief', as I call it): (i) the quasi-believer has a validating meta-belief, to the effect that a certain representation is true; yet (ii) that representation does not give rise to a plain belief, because it is 'semi-propositional'. In this paper I discuss several aspects of this treatment. In particular, I deny that the representation accepted by the quasi-believer is semanticall…Read more
    In a series of papers, Sperber provides the following analysis of the phenomenon of ill-understood belief (or 'quasi-belief', as I call it): (i) the quasi-believer has a validating meta-belief, to the effect that a certain representation is true; yet (ii) that representation does not give rise to a plain belief, because it is 'semi-propositional'. In this paper I discuss several aspects of this treatment. In particular, I deny that the representation accepted by the quasi-believer is semantically indeterminate, and I reject Sperber's claim that quasi-belief is a credal attitude distinct from plain belief.
    The Role of Language in ThoughtBelief, MiscSocial ExternalismQuotationConcepts, Misc
  •  51
    Reply to Romero and Soria
    Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 32 (2): 175-178. 2013.
    Response to Romero's and Soria's paper in the Symposium on *Truth-Conditional Pragmatics* (OUP 2010).
    Nonliteral MeaningSemantic MinimalismSemantics-Pragmatics Distinction
  •  258
    Literal/nonliteral
    Midwest Studies in Philosophy 25 (1). 2001.
    Nonliteral MeaningMetaphorImplicature, MiscSemantics-Pragmatics DistinctionConversational Implicatur…Read more
    Nonliteral MeaningMetaphorImplicature, MiscSemantics-Pragmatics DistinctionConversational Implicature
  •  35
    Content, mode, and self-reference
    In Savas L. Tsohatzidis (ed.), John Searle's Philosophy of Language: Force, Meaning and Mind, Cambridge University Press. pp. 49-63. 2007.
    In this paper I argue that the self-referential component which Searle rightly detects in the truth-conditions of perceptual judgments comes from the perceptual ‘mode' and is not an aspect of the ‘content' of the judgment, contrary to Searle's claim.
    Perception and ReferenceThe Contents of Perception, MiscMemory, MiscSelf-Consciousness in Experience
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    Reply to Frapolli
    Response to Frapolli's contribution in the proceedings of the Granada workshop
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    It 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
    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 tacit references to a location, it takes place for pragmatic reasons and casts no light on the semantics of meteorological predicates. Since then, several authors have reanalysed the counter-example, so as to make it compatible with the standard view. I discuss those attempts and argue that my account is superior.
    Context and Context-DependencePredicates and Context-DependenceSemantics-Pragmatics DistinctionVaria…Read more
    Context and Context-DependencePredicates and Context-DependenceSemantics-Pragmatics DistinctionVariablesVerbs, Misc
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    Open quotation revisited
    Philosophical Perspectives 22 (1): 443-471. 2008.
    This paper — a sequel to my 'Open Quotation' (Mind 2001) — is my reaction to the articles discussing open quotation in the special issue of the Belgian Journal of Linguistics edited by P. De Brabanter in 2005
    Quotation
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