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142Disagreement 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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449The 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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234Assertion: 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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86Language 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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196Empathy and transformative experience without the first person point of viewInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 60 (3): 315-336. 2017.In her very interesting ‘First-personal modes of presentation and the problem of empathy’, L. A. Paul argues that the phenomenon of empathy gives us reason to care about the first person point of view: that as theorists we can only understand, and as humans only evince, empathy by appealing to that point of view. We are skeptics about the importance of the first person point of view, although not about empathy. The goal of this paper is to see if we can account for empathy without the ideology o…Read more
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28Context and CommunicationOxford University Press UK. 2016.Context and Communication offers an introduction to a central theme in the study of language: the various ways in which what we say depends on the context of speech and thought. The period since 1970 has produced a vast literature on this topic, both by philosophers and by linguists. This book explores key data, questions, concepts, and theories of context sensitivity. It is written to be accessible to someone with no prior knowledge of the material or, indeed, any prior knowledge of philosophy,…Read more
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397Relativism and Monadic TruthOxford University Press UK. 2009.Cappelen and Hawthorne present a powerful critique of fashionable relativist accounts of truth, and the foundational ideas in semantics on which the new relativism draws. They argue compellingly that the contents of thought and talk are propositions that instantiate the fundamental monadic properties of truth and falsity
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146Relative TruthIn Michael Glanzberg (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Truth, Oxford University Press. 2018.An introduction to relativism about truth.
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