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41The rhetorical relations approach to indirect speech acts: Problems and prospects (review)Pragmatics and Cognition 17 (1): 43-76. 2009.Asher and Lascarides maintain that speech act types, the sorts of linguistic actions described and categorized, most influentially, by Austin and Searle are rhetorical relations. This relational account of speech acts is problematic for two reasons: Despite Asher and Lascarides ingenious appeal to dot type speech acts, the relational account is incompatible with the widespread phenomenon of indirect speech; only some speech acts are plausibly identified with rhetorical relations. These problems …Read more
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30On Quine (review)Philosophical Review 106 (4): 622-626. 1997.Several of the better essays in On Quine are critical of Quine’s views. In “Against Naturalized Epistemology,” Bas Van Fraassen challenges empiricists to provide a self-consistent statement of their view; if empiricism is the view that “experience is our one and only source of information,” then that piece of information must itself have experience only as its source. Van Fraassen argues that Quine’s naturalized epistemology cannot meet this challenge and thus “is itself a metaphysics of the sor…Read more
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16Denegaciones metalingüísticas y existenciales negativosDianoia 58 (70): 133-157. 2013.En "Existenciales negativos como denegaciones metalingüísticas" (García 2012), Eduardo García presenta una propuesta metalingüística sobre los existenciales negativos y argumenta en contra de la propuesta de la corrección dinámica (Clapp 2008). Aquí argumento que aunque la posición de García es atractiva porque satisface un criterio importante que muchas interpretaciones de los existenciales negativos no logran hacer justicia, no presenta una posición convincente en contra de la propuesta de la …Read more
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What Unarticulated Constituents Could Not BeIn Joseph K. Campbell, Michael O'Rourke & David Shier (eds.), Meaning and Truth: Investigations in Philosophical Semantics., Seven Bridges Press. pp. 231--256. 2002.
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27Review of Zoltan Gendler szab (ed.), Semantics Versus Pragmatics (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (7). 2005.
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