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7What Exactly is Wrong with Telling Someone You Believe Them When You Don’t? A Reply to Luxemburg-PeckSocial Epistemology Review and Reply Collective 12 (12): 1-8. 2023.
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258Perlocutionary Silencing: A Linguistic Harm That Prevents Discursive InfluenceHypatia 38 (1): 86-104. 2023.Various philosophers discuss perlocutionary silencing, but none defend an account of perlocutionary silencing. This gap may exist because perlocutionary success depends on extralinguistic effects, whereas silencing interrupts speech, leaving theorists to rely on extemporary accounts when they discuss perlocutionary silencing. Consequently, scholars assume perlocutionary silencing occurs but neglect to explain how perlocutionary silencing harms speakers as speakers. In relation to that shortcomin…Read more
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71Conversational Epistemic Injustice: Extending the Insight from Testimonial Injustice to Speech Acts beyond AssertionSocial Epistemology 35 (6): 593-607. 2021.Testimonial injustice occurs when hearers attribute speakers a credibility deficit because of an identity prejudice and consequently dismiss speakers’ testimonial assertions. Various philosophers explain testimonial injustice by appealing to interpersonal norms arising within testimonial exchanges. When conversational participants violate these interpersonal norms, they generate second-personal epistemic harms, harming speakers as epistemic agents. This focus on testimony, however, neglects how …Read more
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80Rae Langton and Jennifer Hornsby provide accounts of how pornography silences women by appealing to J.L. Austin's account of speech-acts. Since their accounts focus only on instances of silencing where the hearer does not grasp the type of speech-act the speaker intends to perform, their accounts of silencing do not generalize to explain silencing that arises from what Miranda Fricker calls “testimonial injustice.” I argue that silencing arising from testimonial injustice can only be explained b…Read more
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33Getting Expression‐Based Semantics Right: Its Proper Objects of Evaluation and LimitsSouthern Journal of Philosophy 54 (3): 393-410. 2016.Often those attempting to resolve the answering machine paradox appeal to Kaplan's claim that the objects of semantic evaluation are expression-types evaluated with respect to indices, instead of utterances, as part of their solution. This article argues that Dylan Dodd and Paula Sweeney exemplify the kind of mistakes theorists make in applying such expression-based semantic theories in that they conflate what is asserted with semantic content, and they take their approach to utterance interpret…Read more
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62A Modulation Account of Negative ExistentialsPhilosophia 44 (1): 227-245. 2016.Fictional characters present a problem for semantic theorists. One approach to this problem has been to maintain realism regarding fictional characters, that is to claim that fictional characters exist. In this way names originating from fiction have designata. On this approach the problem of negative existentials is more pressing than it might otherwise be since an explanation must be given as to why we judge them true when the names occurring within them designate existing objects. So, realist…Read more
David C. Spewak Jr.
Marion Military Institute
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Marion Military InstituteHumanities-PhilosophyInstructor
Tuscaloosa, AL, United States of America
Areas of Specialization
Epistemology |
Philosophy of Language |