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109The essence of genuine referenceJournal of Philosophical Logic 24 (3): 275-289. 1995.We have witnessed a fundamental change of perspective in the conception of reference. What the proponents of the new approach criticized and what they proposed to abandon is relatively clear; it is much less clear though what is at the heart of the philosophy that inspired the change. The proponents of the new approach all agreed in disagreeing with Frege: natural languages may, and in fact do, contain expressions that refer without the mediation of a Fregean sense. The core motto of the revolu…Read more
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74Aboutness and SubstitutivityMidwest Studies in Philosophy 14 (1): 127-139. 1989.The following Principle of Substitutivity holds for the former, but not for the latter sentence: (PS) The truth value of (the proposition expressed by) a sentence that contains an occurrence of t1 remains constant when t2 is substituted for t1, provided that t1 and t2 are codesignative singular terms. It is an undeniable fact that different sentences behave differently when it comes to which substitutions preserve their truth value. What is curious is that this fact has been presented by the phi…Read more
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Rigidity and Genuine ReferenceIn C. Martínez Vidal, U. Rivas Monroy & L. Villegas Forero (eds.), Verdad, Lógica, Representación y Mundo, Publicaciones De La Universidad De Santiago De Compostela. 1996.
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DeflationismIn Keith Brown (ed.), Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd edition, Elsevier. pp. 412-415. 2005.
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116Rigidity and the Description of Counterfactual SituationsTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 13 (3): 477-490. 1998.In this paper I discuss two approaches to rigidity. I argue that they differ in the general conception of semantics that each embraces. Moreover, I argue that they differ in how each explains the rigidity of general terms, and in what each presupposes in that explanation.
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261The source of intensionalityPhilosophical Perspectives 7 197-206. 1993.There are obvious differences between (1) Mary is talking to the Dean and (2) Mary is looking for the Dean. In (1) we can replace "the Dean" by any other coextensional term and preserve truth value; also, from (1) we can infer that there is someone Mary is talking to. Such behavior breaks down in (2): neither intersubstitution of coextensional terms nor existential generalization guarantee preservation of truth value in a sentence like (2). (1) is purely extensional; (2) is intensional.
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General Terms and Non-Trivial Rigid DesignationIn C. Martínez (ed.), Current Topics in Logic and Analytic Philosophy, Universidad De Santiago De Compostela. pp. 103-116. 2007.we explore the view that defines rigidity of general terms as sameness of designation across possible worlds. On this view, a general term is rigid just in case it designates the same universal (species, substance or property) in every possible world. This view has been proposed most notably by Bernard Linsky, Nathan Salmon and more recently by Joseph LaPorte, and it has been criticised by several philosophers, including Stephen Schwartz and Scott Soames.
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50The Nature and Structure of Content, by Jeffrey King, Oxford University Press, 2007 (review)Mind 119 (475): 814-819. 2010.
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104General terms, rigidity and the trivialization problemSynthese 181 (2). 2011.We defend the view that defines the rigidity of general terms as sameness of designated universal across possible worlds from the objection that such a characterization is incapable of distinguishing rigid from non-rigid readings of general terms and, thus, that it trivializes the notion of rigidity. We also argue that previous attempts to offer a solution to the trivialization problem do no succeed
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Review of Lecturas Filosóficas de Ciencia Cognitiva (edited by Luis A. Pérez Miranda) (review)Investigación y Ciencia 93. 2011.
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192Editor's IntroductionTheoria: Revista de Teoría, Historia y Fundamentos de la Ciencia 28 (3): 357-357. 2013.Editor's introduction to a section devoted to Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921-2012).
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SubstitutivityDissertation, Stanford University. 1989.This dissertation examines critically the assumptions of extensionalism and the traditional doctrine of substitutivity, according to which codesignativeness or coextensionality of terms should be a sufficient condition to guarantee intersubstitution of expression salva veritate. First, the discussion focuses on the traditional justifications of the extensionalist principles of substitutivity. The following alleged sources of support for extensionalism are examined: the claim that the extensional…Read more
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Use Theories of MeaningIn Keith Brown (ed.), Elsevier Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. 2nd edition, Elsevier. 2005.
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3Legal Disagreements and Theories of ReferenceIn Francesca Poggi (ed.), Pragmatics and Law. Perspectives in Pragmatics, Philosophy & Psychology, Springer. pp. 121-139. 2016.In this work we examine critically how two competing approaches to meaning account for disagreements. We will argue that Hart's conventionalist stance does not commit him to descriptivism. That non-descriptivist theories of reference, properly understood, can account for a vast array of cases of interpretive disagreement and that and that an account of different kinds of disagreement can be provided from a conventionalist perspective within the framework of non-descriptivist theories of referenc…Read more
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72The significance of the distinction between concept mastery and concept possessionPhilosophical Issues 9 163-167. 1998.A discussion of Higginbotham's distinction between mastering and possessing a concept.
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69On modality and reference: Ruth Barcan Marcus (1921-2012)Teorema: International Journal of Philosophy 31 (2): 203-212. 2012.Obituary. Ruth Barcan Marcus' contributions to modal logic and to semantics are discussed.
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45Review of Scott Soames, Beyond Rigidity: The Unfinished Semantic Agenda of Naming and Necessity (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2002 (12): 392. 2002.
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Forma LógicaIn Enciclopedia Ibero-Americana de Filosofía. Vol. 16, Consejo Superior De Investigaciones Científicas. pp. 157-168. 1999.
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32Stern, David. Wittgenstein on Mind and Language (review)Review of Metaphysics 50 (4): 922-923. 1997.
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57Rethinking Quine’s Argument on the Collapse of Modal DistinctionsNotre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 38 (2): 276-294. 1997.This paper examines and discusses an argument for the collapse of modal distincions offered by Quine in "Reference and Modality" and in Word and Object that relies exclusively on a version of the Principle of Substitution. It is argued that the argument does not affect its historical targets: Carnap's treatment of modality, presented in Meaning and Necessity, and Church's Logic of Sense and Denotation, developed by Kaplan; nor does it affect a treatment of modality inspired in Frege's treatment …Read more
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147Rigidity and general termsProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 104 (1): 131-148. 2004.In this paper I examine two ways of defining the rigidity of general terms. First I discuss the view that rigid general terms express essential properties. I argue that the view is ultimately unsatisfactory, although not on the basis of the standard objections raised against it. I then discuss the characterisation in terms of sameness of designation in every possible world. I defend that view from two objections but I argue that the approach, although basically right, should be interpreted cauti…Read more
Genoveva Martí
ICREA And University Of Barcelona
Universitat de Barcelona
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ICREA And University Of BarcelonaRegular Faculty
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Universitat de BarcelonaProfessor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Language |
20th Century Philosophy |
Modal and Intensional Logic |