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77Epistemological Contextualism: A Semantic PerspectiveIn R. Young R. Thomason P. Bouquet V. Akman (ed.), Modeling and Using Context, Springer. pp. 41--54. 2001.According to epistemological contextualism, a sentence of the form "S knows that p" doesn't express a complete proposition. Different utterances of the sentence, in different contexts, can express different propositions: "know" is context-dependent. This paper deals with the semantic contextualist thesis grounding epistemological contextualism. We examine various kinds of linguistic context dependence, which could be relevant to epistemological contextualism: ambiguity, ellipsis, indexicality, v…Read more
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2030The paper emphasizes the inadequacy of formal semantics, the classical paradigm in semantics, in treating contextual dependence. Some phenomena of contextual dependence threaten one central assumption of the classical paradigm, namely the idea that linguistic expressions have a fixed meaning, and utterances have truth conditions well defined. It is possible to individuate three forms of contextual dependence: the one affecting pure indexicals, the one affecting demonstratives and "contextual exp…Read more
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36Naturalizing Meaning through Epistemology: Some Critical NotesIn M. Rédei M. Dorato M. Suàrez (ed.), Epsa Epistemology and Methodology of Science, Springer. pp. 311--321. 2010.According to the theory of meaning as justification, semantics is closely entangled with epistemology: knowing the meaning of an utterance amounts to knowing the justification one may offer for it. In this perspective, the theory of meaning is connected with the epistemic theory of justification, namely the theory that undergoes the more explicit attempts of naturalization. Is it possible to extend those attempts to the notion of meaning? There are many ways of naturalizing the notion of meaning…Read more
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44Claudia Bianchi - Review of Martin Gustafsson and Richard Sørli. The Philosophy of J. L. AustinJournal for the History of Analytical Philosophy 2 (6). 2014.Martin Gustafsson and Richard Sørli. The Philosophy of J. L. Austin. Oxford. Oxford University Press, 2011. ISBN: 9780199219759 Reviewed by Claudia Bianchi.
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102‘Nobody Loves Me’: Quantification and ContextPhilosophical Studies 130 (2). 2006.In my paper, I present two competing perspectives on the foundational problem (as opposed to the descriptive problem) of quantifier domain restriction: the objective perspective on context (OPC) and the intentional perspective on context (IPC). According to OPC, the relevant domain for a quantified sentence is determined by objective facts of the context of utterance. In contrast, according to IPC, we must consider certain features of the speaker’s intention in order to determine the proposition…Read more
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259The semantics/pragmatics distinction (edited book)CSLI. 2004.Semantic theory in linguistics cannot retain its traditional purity, free of pragmatic contextual considerations. Agreement with the preceding claim, generally shared by this volume's contributors, provides the setting for a presentation of various provocative approaches toward a precise definition of pragmatics along with a reconciliation of pragmatics with semantics. Here is a collection of leading-edge work that examines the semantics/pragmatics dispute in terms of phenomena such as indexical…Read more
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83Contextualizing Meaning Through EpistemologyProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 39 7-11. 2008.Epistemological contextualism and semantic contextualism are two distinct but closely entangled projects in contemporary philosophy. According to epistemological contextualism, our knowledge attributions are context-sensitive. That is, the truth-conditions of knowledge ascribing sentences – sentences of the form of (1) S knows that p - vary depending on the context in which they are uttered. Contextualism admits the legitimacy of several epistemic standards that vary with the context of use of (…Read more
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Recensioni/Reviews-Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta. An Essay on MetarepresentationEpistemologia 27 (2): 337-339. 2004.
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132How to do things with (recorded) wordsPhilosophical Studies 167 (2): 485-495. 2014.The aim of this paper is to evaluate which context determines the illocutionary force of written or recorded utterances—those involved in written texts, films and images, conceived as recordings that can be seen or heard in different occasions. More precisely, my paper deals with the “metaphysical” or constitutive role of context—as opposed to its epistemic or evidential role: my goal is to determine which context is semantically relevant in order to fix the illocutionary force of a speech act, …Read more
Claudia Bianchi
Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan)
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Università Vita-Salute San Raffaele (Milan)Professor
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Philosophy of Language |
Pragmatics |
Reference |
Speech Acts |
Semantics-Pragmatics Distinction |
Performatives |