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14Experiences of linguistic understanding as epistemic feelingsMind and Language 38 (1): 274-295. 2021.Language understanding comes with a particular kind of phenomenology. It is often observed that when listening to utterances in a familiar language, competent language users can have experiences of understanding the meanings of these utterances. The nature of such experiences is a much debated topic. In this paper, I develop a new proposal according to which experiences of understanding are a particular kind of epistemic feelings of fluency that result from evaluative monitoring processes. The p…Read more
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13Linguistic modalities and the sources of linguistic utterancesSynthese 201 (5): 1-24. 2023.As an object of philosophical study, language is typically considered as an abstract object rather than a lived phenomenon that comes with rich and varied phenomenology. And yet our modes of engaging with language are complex and many. The first goal of this paper is to illustrate this variety by looking at some of the linguistic modalities and forms of communication. The second goal is to suggest that at least in some specific philosophical debates, language and communication should be investig…Read more
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30Self-illness ambiguity and anorexia nervosaPhilosophical Explorations 26 (1): 127-145. 2023.Self-illness ambiguity is a difficulty to distinguish the ‘self’ or ‘who one is’ from one's mental disorder or diagnosis. Although self-illness ambiguity in a psychiatric context is often deemed to be a negative phenomenon, it may occasionally have a positive role too. This paper investigates whether and in what sense self-illness ambiguity could have a positive role in the process of recovery and self-development in some psychiatric contexts by focusing on a specific case of mental disorder – a…Read more
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94Do we hear meanings? – between perception and cognitionInquiry: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Philosophy 66 (2): 196-228. 2019.ABSTRACT It is often observed that experiences of utterance understanding are what surfaces in hearer’s consciousness in the course of language comprehension. The nature of such experiences has been a hotly debated topic. One influential position in this debate is the semantic perceptual view, according to which meaning properties can be perceived. In this paper I present two new challenges for the view that we can become perceptually aware of meaning properties in auditory experience or, in bri…Read more
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44Making it precise—Imprecision and underdetermination in linguistic communicationSynthese 200 (3): 1-27. 2022.How good are we at understanding what others communicate? It often seems to us, at least, that we understand quite well what others convey when speaking in a familiar language. However, a growing body of evidence from the psychology of language suggests that in various communicative settings comprehenders routinely form linguistic representations that are underdetermined, “sketchy”, “shallow” or imprecise, often without noticing it. The paper discusses some important consequences of this evidenc…Read more
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14The difficult case of complicated grief and the role of phenomenology in psychiatryPhenomenology and Mind 18 98-109. 2020.It has been argued that some unremitting forms of grief, commonly labeled as complicated grief, pose a serious threat to the well-being and life of the mourner and may require clinical attention (Lichtenthal et al., 2004; Zisook et al., 2010). One central issue in this debate is whether and how we could draw a divide between uncomplicated and complicated grief to avoid, on the one hand, the medicalization of appropriate grief responses, and on the other hand, to provide help to those who suffer …Read more
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9What Do We Experience When Listening to a Familiar Language?Croatian Journal of Philosophy 20 (3): 365-389. 2020.What do we systematically experience when hearing an utterance in a familiar language? A popular and intuitive answer has it that we experience understanding an utterance or what the speaker said or communicated by uttering a sentence. Understanding a meaning conveyed by the speaker is an important element of linguistic communication that might be experienced in such cases. However, in this paper I argue that two other elements that typically accompany the production of spoken linguistic utteran…Read more
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55Epistemic injustice in psychiatric practice: epistemic duties and the phenomenological approachJournal of Medical Ethics 47 (12): 69-69. 2021.Epistemic injustice is a kind of injustice that arises when one’s capacity as an epistemic subject is wrongfully denied. In recent years it has been argued that psychiatric patients are often harmed in their capacity as knowers and suffer from various forms of epistemic injustice that they encounter in psychiatric services. Acknowledging that epistemic injustice is a multifaceted problem in psychiatry calls for an adequate response. In this paper I argue that, given that psychiatric patients des…Read more
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28Linguistic Intuitions: Evidence and MethodOxford University Press. 2020.This book examines the evidential status and use of linguistic intuitions, a topic that has seen increased interest in recent years. Linguists use native speakers' intuitions - such as whether or not an utterance sounds acceptable - as evidence for theories about language, but this approach is not uncontroversial. The two parts of this volume draw on the most recent work in both philosophy and linguistics to explore the two major issues at the heart of the debate. Chapters in the first part addr…Read more
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21Increasing the Role of Phenomenology in Psychiatric Diagnosis–The Clinical Staging ApproachJournal of Medicine and Philosophy 45 (6): 683-702. 2020.Recent editions of diagnostic manuals in psychiatry have focused on providing quick and efficient operationalized criteria. Notwithstanding the genuine value of these classifications, many psychiatrists have argued that the operationalization approach does not sufficiently accommodate the rich and complex domain of patients’ experiences that is crucial for clinical reasoning in psychiatry. How can we increase the role of phenomenology in the process of diagnostic reasoning in psychiatry? I argue…Read more
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1Descriptive ineffability reconsideredLingua 177 1-16. 2016.Ordinary competent language speakers experience difficulty in paraphrasing words such as ‘the’, ‘but’ or ‘however’ as compared to words such as ‘chair’ or ‘run’. The difficulty experienced in the first case is sometimes called descriptive ineffability. In recent debates about meaning types in pragmatics and philosophy of language, descriptive ineffability has been used as a test for the presence of expressive (as opposed to descriptive) meaning, or procedural (as opposed to conceptual) meaning. …Read more
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17Bringing back the voice: on the auditory objects of speech perceptionSynthese (x): 1-27. 2020.When you hear a person speaking in a familiar language you perceive the speech sounds uttered and the voice that produces them. How are speech sounds and voice related in a typical auditory experience of hearing speech in a particular voice? And how to conceive of the objects of such experiences? I propose a conception of auditory objects of speech perception as temporally structured mereologically complex individuals. A common experience is that speech sounds and the voice that produces them ap…Read more
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65Must philosophy be constrained?: Edouard Machery: Philosophy within its proper bounds. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017, 217pp, £40.00HB (review)Metascience 27 (3): 469-475. 2018.
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93Speakers’ Intuitive Judgements about Meaning – The Voice of Performance ViewReview of Philosophy and Psychology 9 (1): 177-195. 2018.Speakers’ intuitive judgements about meaning provide important data for many debates in philosophy of language and pragmatics, including contextualism vs. relativism in semantics; ‘faultless’ disagreement; the limits of truth-conditional semantics; vagueness; and the status of figurative utterances. Is the use of speakers intuitive judgments about meaning justified? Michael Devitt has argued that their use in philosophy of language is problematic because they are fallible empirical judgements ab…Read more
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144Philosophical expertise beyond intuitionsPhilosophical Psychology 31 (2): 253-277. 2018.In what sense, if any, are philosophers experts in their domain of research and what could philosophical expertise be? The above questions are particularly pressing given recent methodological disputes in philosophy. The so-called expertise defense recently proposed as a reply to experimental philosophers postulates that philosophers are experts qua having improved intuitions. However, this model of philosophical expertise has been challenged by studies suggesting that philosophers’ intuitions a…Read more
Anna Drożdżowicz
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences
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Inland Norway University of Applied SciencesAssociate Professor
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Inland Norway University of Applied SciencesDepartment of Law, Philosophy and International Studies (Lillehammer)Associate Professor
University of Oslo
PhD, 2015
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Mind |
Philosophy of Language |
Areas of Interest
Philosophy of Psychiatry |