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135Relative TruthIn Michael Glanzberg (ed.), Oxford Handbook of Truth, Oxford University Press. 2020.An introduction to relativism about truth.
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468Insensitive Semantics: A Defense of Semantic Minimalism and Speech Act PluralismWiley-Blackwell. 2005._Insensitive Semantics_ is an overview of and contribution to the debates about how to accommodate context sensitivity within a theory of human communication, investigating the effects of context on communicative interaction and, as a corollary, what a context of utterance is and what it is to be in one. Provides detailed and wide-ranging overviews of the central positions and arguments surrounding contextualism Addresses broad and varied aspects of the distinction between the semantic and non-s…Read more
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196The Inessential Indexical: On the Philosophical Insignificance of Perspective and the First PersonOxford University Press. 2013.Cappelen and Dever present a forceful challenge to the standard view that perspective, and in particular the perspective of the first person, is a philosophically deep aspect of the world. Their goal is not to show that we need to explain indexical and other perspectival phenomena in different ways, but to show that the entire topic is an illusion
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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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