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150Moral and Moorean IncoherenciesErgo: An Open Access Journal of Philosophy 10 (n/a). 2023.It has been argued that moral assertions involve the possession, on the part of the speaker, of appropriate non-cognitive attitudes. Thus, uttering ‘murder is wrong’ invites an inference that the speaker disapproves of murder. In this paper, we present the result of 4 empirical studies concerning this phenomenon. We assess the acceptability of constructions in which that inference is explicitly canceled, such as ‘murder is wrong but I don’t disapprove of it’; and we compare them to similar const…Read more
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64Provocative Insinuations as Hate Speech: Argumentative Functions of Mentioning Ethnicity in HeadlinesTopoi 42 (2): 419-431. 2023.We explore a particular type of propagandistic message, which we call “provocative insinuation”. For example: ‘Iraqi refugee is convicted in Germany of raping and murdering teenage girl’. Although this sentence seems to merely report a fact, it also conveys a potentially hateful message about Iraqi refugees. We look at the argumentative roles that these utterances play in public discourse. Specifically, we argue that they implicitly address the question of the integration of refugees and migrant…Read more
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17Sympathy for Caligula? A New Defense of Williams’ Internalism About ReasonsRevue Internationale de Philosophie 304 (2): 93-106. 2023.L’enjeu de cet article est de défendre l’internalisme de Bernard Williams à propos de la raison pratique, en adoptant un point de vue différent de ce qui se fait habituellement dans la littérature. Les expériences de pensée impliquant des « excentriques idéalement cohérents » sont généralement présentées dans ce débat comme un argument majeur contre l’internalisme. Je conteste ce point et montre que nos intuitions concernant de telles figures impliquent en réalité une compréhension internaliste …Read more
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21Is Metalinguistic Usage a Conversational Implicature?Topoi 42 (4): 1027-1038. 2023.I argue against the view that metalinguistic usage is a form of conversational implicature. That view, suggested by Thomasson (Anal Philos 57(4):1-28, 2016) and Belleri (Philos Stud 174(9):2211–2226, 2017), has been most recently fleshed out by Mankowitz (Synthese 199:5603–5622, 2021). I provide two types of criticism to the implicature view. From an empirical point of view, metalinguistic usage differs in key respects from standard cases of conversational implicature. From a conceptual standpoi…Read more
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29Evaluative and Metalinguistic DisputeAustralasian Journal of Philosophy 101 (1): 165-181. 2023.ABSTRACT Recently, the hypothesis that purely evaluative disputes are metalinguistic negotiations has gained traction. I resist a strong version of that hypothesis, and argue that some of those disputes are not metalinguistic negotiations. To defend that claim, I argue that metalinguistic negotiations have three linguistic properties that some purely evaluative disputes lack. First, in a metalinguistic negotiation it is felicitous to embed the dispute-initial statement under the subjective attit…Read more
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286On Linguistic Evidence for ExpressivismRoyal Institute of Philosophy Supplement 86 155-180. 2019.This paper argues that there is a class of terms, or uses of terms, that are best accounted for by an expressivist account. We put forward two sets of criteria to distinguish between expressive and factual terms. The first set relies on the action-guiding nature of expressive language. The second set relies on the difference between one's evidence for making an expressive vs. factual statement. We then put those criteria to work to show, first, that the basic evaluative adjectives such as ‘good’…Read more
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1The semantics and pragmatics of value judgmentsIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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The semantics and pragmatics of value judgmentsIn Piotr Stalmaszczyk (ed.), The Cambridge Handbook of the Philosophy of Language, Cambridge University Press. 2021.
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30Moral adjectives, judge-dependency and holistic multidimensionalityInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 65 (7): 887-916. 2022.ABSTRACT In recent experimental work, the spectrum-like nature of the phenomenon of ordering subjectivity has been accounted for by recourse to the distinction, within the class of subjective adjectives, between multi-dimensional and judge-dependent ones. One way to cash out judge-dependency is in terms of some kind of experiencer-sensitivity. In this paper, we argue that this approach is insufficient. Applying Solt’s experimental paradigm to moral adjectives suggests that, within the class of j…Read more
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33On Mates's puzzleMind and Language 38 (2): 515-544. 2023.I defend a metalinguistic account of Mates's puzzle: sentences where synonymous expressions cannot be substituted salva veritate. If Andrea thinks that attorneys are different from lawyers, and she thinks that Fiona is the former but not the latter, we may hesitate to substitute ‘lawyer’ for ‘attorney’ in ‘Andrea believes that Fiona is an attorney’, even though ‘lawyer’ and ‘attorney’ are synonymous. I argue that these sentences report de re beliefs about linguistic expressions, thereby blocking…Read more
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22De la Cueva, Julio, Hernando de Larramendi, Miguel y Planet, Ana I. (eds.), Encrucijadas del cambio religioso en España. Religión, cristianismo e islam. Comares, Granada, 2018, 248 pp. ISBN: 978-84-9045-593-7 (review)'Ilu. Revista de Ciencias de Las Religiones 24 150-152. 2021.
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21Filosofia Y sociedad Hoy: La insoportable Y posmoderna levedad de serTheoria 11 (1): 97-101. 2002.
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3Modelos científicos y modelos sociales: La influencia de Newton en el NeoliberalismoA Parte Rei 20 5. 2002.
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975Motives Still Don't Matter: Reply to PynesZygon 47 (4): 662-665. 2012.This paper continues a dialogue that began with an article by Jeffrey Koperski entitled “Two Bad Ways to Attack Intelligent Design and Two Good Ones,” published in the June 2008 issue of Zygon: Journal of Religion and Science. In a response article, Christopher Pynes argues that ad hominem arguments are sometimes legitimate, especially when critiquing Intelligent Design (2012). We show that Pynes’s examples only apply to matters of testimony, not the kinds of arguments found in the best defenses…Read more
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Religion |
Applied Ethics |
Meta-Ethics |