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13Nearly everyone shares the intuition that sarcasm or verbal irony1 is a use of language in which speaker meaning and sentence meaning come apart. Two millennia ago, Quintilian defined irony as speech in which “we understand something which is the opposite of what is actually said.”2 More recently, Josef Stern sharply distinguishes metaphor, which he argues is semantic, from irony: in the latter case, he says, we are not “even tempted to posit an ironic meaning in the utterance in addition to the…Read more
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3Metaethical ExpressivismIn Tristram Colin McPherson & David Plunkett (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Metaethics, Routledge. pp. 87-101. 2017.
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1Why maps are not propositionalIn Alex Grzankowski & Michelle Montague (eds.), Non-Propositional Intentionality, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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1MetaphorIn Ernest Lepore & Barry C. Smith (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy of Language, Oxford University Press. 2006.
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1Prudent semantics meets wanton speech act pluralismIn G. Preyer (ed.), Context Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism, Oxford University Press. pp. 194--215. 2007.
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A venerable philosophical tradition claims that only language users possess concepts. But this makes conceptual thought out to be an implausibly rarified achievement. A more recent tradition, based in cognitive science, maintains that any creature who can systematically recombine its representational capacities thereby deploys concepts. But this makes conceptual thought implausibly widespread. I argue for a middle ground: it is sufficient for conceptual thought that one be able to entertain many…Read more
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Prudent Semantics Meets Wanton Speech Act PluralismIn Gerhard Preyer & Georg Peter (eds.), Context-sensitivity and semantic minimalism: new essays on semantics and pragmatics, Oxford University Press Uk. 2007.
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Poniendo en marcha los pensamientos : conceptos, sistemacidad e independencia del estímuloIn Mariela Aguilera, Laura Danón, Carolina Scotto & Elisabeth Camp (eds.), Conceptos, lenguaje y cognición, Editorial Universidad Nacional De Córdoba. 2015.
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Prudent Semantics Meets Wanton Speech Act PluralismIn G. Preyer (ed.), Context Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism, Oxford University Press. pp. 194. 2007.
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A Dual Act AnalysisIn David Sosa (ed.), Bad Words: Philosophical Perspectives on Slurs, Oxford University Press. 2018.
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Conceptos lógicos y caracterizaciones asociativasIn Mariela Aguilera, Laura Danón, Carolina Scotto & Elisabeth Camp (eds.), Conceptos, lenguaje y cognición, Editorial Universidad Nacional De Córdoba. 2015.
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Philosophy of Language |
Philosophy of Mind |
Aesthetics |
Pragmatics |
Meaning |
Metaphor |
Concepts |
Varieties of Representation |
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Philosophy of Mind |
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