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48Three Trivial Truth TheoriesCanadian Journal of Philosophy 13 (3). 1983.According to Tarski, a theory of truth for a language L is a theory which logically implies for each sentence S of L a sentence of the form:S is true-in-L if and only if p,where rS1 is replaced by a canonical description of a sentence of L and rp1 is replaced by that sentence if L is contained in the metalanguage or by a translation of S if it is not so contained. Tarski constructed consistent and finitely axiomatized theories of truth for various formal languages and showed how to explicitly de…Read more
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655Discourse and logical form: pronouns, attention and coherenceLinguistics and Philosophy 40 (5): 519-547. 2017.Traditionally, pronouns are treated as ambiguous between bound and demonstrative uses. Bound uses are non-referential and function as bound variables, and demonstrative uses are referential and take as a semantic value their referent, an object picked out jointly by linguistic meaning and a further cue—an accompanying demonstration, an appropriate and adequately transparent speaker’s intention, or both. In this paper, we challenge tradition and argue that both demonstrative and bound pronouns ar…Read more
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115Pointing things out: in defense of attention and coherenceLinguistics and Philosophy 43 (2): 139-148. 2020.Nowak and Michaelson have done us the service of presenting direct and clear worries about our account of demonstratives. In response, we use the opportunity to engage briefly with their remarks as a useful way to clarify our view.
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18Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language, Volume 1 (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2019.Philosophy of language has been at the center of philosophical research at least since the start of the 20th century. But till now there has been no regular forum for outstanding original work in this area. That is what Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language offers.
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141The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language (edited book)Oxford University Press. 2005.The Oxford Handbooks series is a major new initiative in academic publishing. Each volume offers an authoritative and up-to-date survey of original research in a particular subject area. Specially commissioned essays from leading figures in the discipline give critical examinations of the progress and direction of debates. Oxford Handbooks provide scholars and graduate students with compelling new perspectives upon a wide range of subjects in the humanities and social sciences. Ernie Lepore a…Read more
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45ResponseMind and Language 21 (1): 50-73. 2006.We start off with some points of clarification about the view we defend in Insensitive Semantics, before going on to consider responses from Charles Travis, Zoltan Szabo,Anne Bezuidenhout, Steven Gross, and Francois Recanati
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34One of Szabo's central objections is his ‘reservations about the alleged slide from moderate to radical contextualism’. First, some background: the argument Szabo expresses doubt about is essential both to the critical part of our book and to its positive part. Our argument against what we call moderate contextualism depends on the assumption that it collapses into radical contextualism. Our positive view depends on the assumption that for any utterance, we can trigger the intuition that many di…Read more
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376Context-sensitivityIn Gillian Russell & Delia Graff Fara (eds.), Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Language, Routledge. 2012.This article is a survey of the literature on context sensitivity in the philosophy of language.
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66Précis of Holism: A Shopper's Guide (review)Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 53 (3): 637. 1993.
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Actions and Events, Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald DavidsonRevue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 176 (4): 542-544. 1986.
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1¿Qué es lo que una semántica de teoría de modelos no puede hacer?Revista de Filosofía de la Universidad de Costa Rica 54 1-98. 1983.
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137Saying and AgreeingMind and Language 25 (5): 583-601. 2010.No semantic theory is complete without an account of context sensitivity. But there is little agreement over its scope and limits even though everyone invokes intuition about an expression's behavior in context to determine its context sensitivity. Minimalists like Cappelen and Lepore identify a range of tests which isolate clear cases of context sensitive expressions, such as ‘I’, ‘here’, and ‘now’, to the exclusion of all others. Contextualists try to discredit the tests and supplant them with…Read more
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2Rule-Following, Meaning, and NormativityIn Barry C. Smith (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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114Why meaning (probably) isn't conceptual roleIn Darragh Byrne & Max Kölbel (eds.), Arguing about language, Routledge. 2010.
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116What is Cognitive Science (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1999.Written by an assembly of leading researchers in the field, this volume provides an innovative and non-technical introduction to cognitive science, and the key issues that animate the field.
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56What Davidson Should Have SaidGrazer Philosophische Studien 36 (1): 65-78. 1989.According to Davidson, a theory of meaning for a language L should specify information such that if someone had this information he would be in a position to understand L. He claims that a theory of truth for L fits this description. Many critics have argued that a truth theory is too weak to be a theory of meaning. We argue that these critics and Davidson's response to them have been misguided. Many critics have been misguided because they have not been clear aboutwhat a theory of meaning is su…Read more
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40A standard view about the quotation is that ‘the result of enclosing any expression...in quotation marks is a constant singular term’ [Wallace 1972, p.237]. There is little sense in treating the entire complex of an expression flanked by a right and left quotation mark, a quotation term for short, as a ‘constant singular term’ of a language L if that complex is not, in some sense, itself a constituent of L. So, just as (1) contains twenty-seven tokened symbols (including twenty-three roman lette…Read more
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82I conclude that there is no such thing as a language, not if a language is anything like what many philosophers and linguists have supposed. There is therefore no such thing to be learned, mastered or born with. (Davidson, 1986, p. 446).
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101The Heresy of Paraphrase: When the Medium Really Is the MessageMidwest Studies in Philosophy 33 (1): 177-197. 2009.Now I may not be an educated man . . . But it seems to me to go against common sense to ask what the poet is ‘trying to say’. The poem isn’t a code for something easily understood. The poem is what he is trying to say.
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291Truth and Interpretation: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Donald Davidson (edited book)Blackwell. 1986.Each of these 28 essays is part of a comprehensive program to address questions about language, mind, action, and their interconnections. (Philosophy)
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