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37Talking to Infants: A Gricean PerspectiveAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 50 (4): 423. 2013.According to Paul Grice, when we address someone, we intend to make ourselves understood, partly by the addressee’s recognition of that intention. Call this set of nested audience-directed intentions an M-intention. The standard Gricean analysis of speaker’s meaning goes as follows: “U meant something by uttering x” is true iff, for some audience A, U uttered x intending: (1) A to produce a particular response r (2) A to think (recognize) that U intends (1) (3) A to fulfill (1) on the basis of h…Read more
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54Intentions and CompositionalityProceedings of the Xxii World Congress of Philosophy 39 13-19. 2008.It has been argued that philosophers that base their theories of meaning on communicative intentions and language conventions cannot accommodate the fact that natural languages are compositional. In this paper I show that if we pay careful attention to Grice’s notion of “resultant procedures” we see that this is not the case. The argument, if we leave out all the technicalities, is fairly simple. Resultant procedures tell you how to combine utterance parts, like words, into larger units, like se…Read more
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880All You Zombies. David Chalmers’ Metaphysical SolipsismIn Uwe Meixner Peter Simons (ed.), Metaphysics in the Post-Metaphysical Age, Austrian Ludwig Wittgenstein Society. 1999.
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54The word of othersJournal of Applied Logic 1 (1-2): 107-118. 2003.Tyler Burge has argued that one has an a priori prima facie entitlement to believe in the truth of what one takes to have been presented as true by an interlocutor. This thesis, however, is problematic, since the alleged a priori prima facie entitlement to believe in the truth of our seeming understanding of things presented as true to us, rests on the possibility of determining assertoric force on a purely intellectual basis. This thesis is not plausible and Burge's analogy from memory does not…Read more
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40Sport Records Are Social FactsSport, Ethics and Philosophy 9 (4): 351-362. 2015.In this paper I address the topic of sport records and concentrate on the ontology of sport records. I argue that sport records are social facts in the sense that sport records not only depend on the physical facts of sport competitions, but also on the attitude we take towards the phenomenon—our attitude is partly constitutive of the phenomenon of sport records. In particular, the Mieto–Wassberg incident and the Larsson–McKee incident show that performance records should also be regarded as soc…Read more
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137Counterpart Theory and the Argument from Modal ConcernsTheoria 72 (4): 269-285. 2006.Kripke complained that counterpart theory makes modal claims be about counterparts and not about us, and that it is a misguided model of modality since we do not care about counterparts in the same way we care about ourselves. The first part of the complaint, I argue, has been met by Hazen and Lewis, while the second can be countered by observing that most of our modal concerns are about role‐fillers and that counterparts are well‐suited to such concerns. The role‐filler analysis of modal concer…Read more
Steffen Borge
Nord University
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Nord UniversityRegular Faculty
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Sport |
The Nature of Sport |
Sports Ethics |
Philosophy of Sport, Misc |
Topics in the Philosophy of Sport |