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264X-Phi Without Intuitions?In Anthony Robert Booth & Darrell P. Rowbottom (eds.), Intuitions, Oxford University Press. 2014.One central purpose of Experimental Philosophy (hereafter, x-phi) is to criticize the alleged reliance on intuitions in contemporary philosophy. In my book Philosophy without Intuitions (hereafter, PWI), I argue that philosophers don’t rely on intuitions. If those arguments are good, experimental philosophy has been engaged in an attack on a strawman. The goal of this paper is to bolster the criticism of x-phi in the light of responses
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8Liberating ContentOxford University Press UK. 2015.This volume brings together two series of papers: one began with Herman Cappelen and Ernie Lepore's 1997 paper 'On an Alleged Connection Between the Theory of Meaning and Indirect Speech'. The other series started with their 1997 paper 'Varieties of Quotation'. The central theme throughout is that only when communicative content is liberated from semantic content will we make progress in understanding language, communication, contexts, and their interconnection. These are the papers in which Cap…Read more
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134Disagreement in Philosophy: An Optimistic PerspectiveIn Guiseppina D'Oro & Soren Overgaard (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Philosophical Methodology, Cambridge University Press. 2017.
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431The Oxford Handbook of Philosophical Methodology (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2016.This is the most comprehensive book ever published on philosophical methodology. A team of thirty-eight of the world's leading philosophers present original essays on various aspects of how philosophy should be and is done. The first part is devoted to broad traditions and approaches to philosophical methodology. The entries in the second part address topics in philosophical methodology, such as intuitions, conceptual analysis, and transcendental arguments. The third part of the book is devoted …Read more
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227Assertion: New Philosophical Essays (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2011.Assertion is a fundamental feature of language. This volume will be the place to look for anyone interested in current work on the topic.
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78Language Turned on Itself: The Semantics and Pragmatics of Metalinguistic DiscourseOxford University Press. 2007.This is the first book devoted to the question of how language can be used to talk about language. Cappelen and Lepore examine the semantics, the pragmatics, and the syntax of linguistic devices that can be used in this way, and present a new account of our use of quotation in a variety of different contexts.
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