• How can "I" refer to me
    In Tadeusz Ciecierski & Paweł Grabarczyk (eds.), The Architecture of Context Sensitivity, Springer. 2020.
    Kaplan’s influential (1989) makes a connection between the mode of reference of indexical expressions and the impossibility of a certain sentential operators, which he calls monsters. The impossibility of monsters has recently come under attack from several quarters, both theoretical and empirical. In this paper I consider monsters from a different perspective. I motivate the prohibition on monsters independently of intensional notions altogether, and understand it not as an empirical hypothesis…Read more
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    Groundwork for a pragmatics for formalized languages
    Semiotica 2021 (240): 211-239. 2021.
    The use-mention distinction is elaborated into a four-way distinction between use, formal mention, material mention and pragmatic mention. The notion of pragmatic mention is motivated through the problem of monsters in Kaplanian indexical semantics. It is then formalized and applied in an account of schemata in formalized languages.
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    Diagonal Anti-Mechanist Arguments
    Studia Semiotyczne 34 (1): 203-232. 2020.
    Gödel’s first incompleteness theorem is sometimes said to refute mechanism about the mind. §1 contains a discussion of mechanism. We look into its origins, motivations and commitments, both in general and with regard to the human mind, and ask about the place of modern computers and modern cognitive science within the general mechanistic paradigm. In §2 we give a sharp formulation of a mechanistic thesis about the mind in terms of the mathematical notion of computability. We present the argument…Read more
  • How can "I" refer to me? Banishing monsters at the source
    In Tadeusz Ciecierski & Paweł Grabarczyk (eds.), The Architecture of Context Sensitivity, Springer. 2020.
    Kaplan’s influential (1989) makes a connection between the mode of reference of indexical expressions and the impossibility of a certain sentential operators, which he calls monsters. The impossibility of monsters has recently come under attack from several quarters, both theoretical and empirical. In this paper I consider monsters from a different perspective. I motivate the prohibition on monsters independently of intensional notions altogether, and understand it not as an empirical hypothesis…Read more
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    An Observation about Truth
    Dissertation, University of Jerusalem. 2017.
    Tarski's analysis of the concept of truth gives rise to a hierarchy of languages. Does this fragment the concept all the way to philosophical unacceptability? I argue it doesn't, drawing on a modification of Kaplan's theory of indexicals.
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    How can "I" refer to me?
    In Tadeusz Ciecierski & Paweł Grabarczyk (eds.), The Architecture of Context Sensitivity, Springer. 2020.
    Kaplan’s influential (1989) makes a connection between the mode of reference of indexical expressions and the impossibility of a certain sentential operators, which he calls monsters. The impossibility of monsters has recently come under attack from several quarters, both theoretical and empirical. In this paper I consider monsters from a different perspective. I motivate the prohibition on monsters independently of intensional notions altogether, and understand it not as an empirical hypothesis…Read more
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    This book is a running commentary of Tarski’s momentous monograph ‘The Concept of Truth in Formalized Languages’, published in Polish in 1933, with special focus on discrepancies...