• Valore cognitivo, stereotipi e contenuto
    In Marcello Ostinelli & Virginio Pedroni (eds.), Il realismo pragmatico di Hilary Putnam: saggi critici, Liguori. 1994.
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    Benton, RA, 527 Blackburn, P., 281 Braüner, T., 359 Brink, C., 543
    with S. Chopra, B. J. Copeland, S. Donaho, F. Ferreira, H. Field, D. M. Gabbay, L. Goldstein, J. Heidema, and M. J. Hill
    Journal of Philosophical Logic 31 (615). 2002.
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    Sense, Reference, and Philosophy (review)
    Disputatio 1 (20): 359-361. 2006.
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    Same‐Saying, Pluri‐Propositionalism, and Implicatures
    Mind and Language 27 (5): 546-569. 2012.
    In combining a pluri‐propositionalist framework (Bach‐style) concerning alleged conventional implicatures, and a pluri‐propositionalist framework (Perry‐style) distinguishing various levels of content associated with a single utterance, I defend a Grice‐inspired model of communication. In so doing, I rely on the distinction between what is said, i.e. what is semantically encoded, and what is pragmatically implicated. I show how the notion of same‐saying plays a central role in dealing with probl…Read more
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    Temporal Indexicals And Temporal Terms
    Synthese 130 (3): 441-460. 2002.
    Indexical reference is personal, ephemeral, confrontational, and executive. Hence it is not reducible to nonindexical reference to what is not confronted. Conversely, nonindexical reference is not reducible to indexical reference. (Castañeda 1989, p. 70).
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    Eros Corazza presents a fascinating investigation of the role that indexicals play in our thought. Indexicality is crucial to the understanding of such puzzling issues as the nature of the self, the nature of perception, social interaction, psychological pathologies, and psychological development. Corazza draws on work from philosophy, linguistics, and psychology to illuminate this key aspect of the relation between mind and world. By highlighting how indexical thoughts are irreducible and intri…Read more
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    Why is Frege's Puzzle Still Puzzling?
    with Jerome Dokič
    In Petr Kotatko & John Biro (eds.), Frege: Sense and Reference One Hundred Years Later, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 151--168. 1995.
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    Sense and insensibility: Or where minimalism meets contextualism
    with Jérôme Dokic
    In G. Preyer (ed.), Context Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism, Oxford University Press. pp. 169--193. 2007.
    In this paper we present some benefits of semantic minimalism. In particular, we stress how minimalism allows us to avoid cognitive overloading, in that it does not posit hidden indexicals or variables at the LF or representational level and it does not posit the operation of free enrichment processes when we produce or hear a sentence. We nonetheless argue that a fully adequate semantic minimalism should embrace a form of relativism—that is, the view that semantic content must be evaluated, pac…Read more
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    Unenriched Subsentential Illocutions
    Philosophy and Phenomenological Research 83 (3): 560-582. 2011.
    In this paper I challenge the common wisdom (see Dummett and Davidson) that sentences are the minimal units with which one can perform a speech act or make a move in the language game. I thus sit with Perry and Stainton in arguing that subsentences can be used to perform full-fledged speech acts. In my discussion I assume the traditional framework which distinguishes between the proposition expressed and the thought or mental state (possibly a sentence in Mentalese) one comes to grasp when using…Read more
  •  263
    Who Is I?
    with William Fish and Jonathan Gorvett
    Philosophical Studies 107 (1): 1-21. 2002.
    Whilst it may seem strange to ask to whom “I” refers, we show that there are occasionswhen it is not always obvious. In demonstratingthis we challenge Kaplan's assumptionthat the utterer, agent and referent of “I” arealways the same person.We begin by presenting what weregard to be the received view about indexicalreference popularized by David Kaplan in hisinfluential 1972 “Demonstratives” before goingon, in section 2, to discuss Sidelle'sanswering machine paradox which may be thoughtto threate…Read more
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    Situated minimalism versus free enrichment
    Synthese 184 (2): 179-198. 2012.
    In this paper, we put forward a position we call “situationalism” (or “situated minimalism”), which is a middle-ground view between minimalism and contextualism in recent philosophy of language. We focus on the notion of free enrichment, which first arose within contextualism as underlying the claim that what is said is typically enriched relative to the logical form of the uttered sentence. However, minimalism also acknowledges some process of pragmatic intrusion in its claim that what is thoug…Read more
  •  144
    'She' and 'he': Politically correct pronouns
    Philosophical Studies 111 (2). 2002.
    It is argued that the pronouns `she' and `he' are disguised complexdemonstratives of the form `that female/male'. Three theories ofcomplex demonstratives are examined and shown to be committed to theview that `s/he' turns out to be an empty term when used to refer toa hermaphrodite. A fourth theory of complex demonstratives, one thatis hermaphrodite friendly, is proposed. It maintains that complexdemonstratives such as `that female/male' and the pronoun `s/he' can succeed in referring to someone…Read more
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    Washing Away Original Sinn
    Dialogue 38 (4): 743-764. 1999.
    RÉSUMÉ: L'objectif de cet article est essentiellement négatif. Suivant en cela Dummett, j'introduis deux manières attrayantes d'interpréter le Sinn original de Frege, que j'appelle respectivement la doctrine du sens privé et la doctrine du sens public. Je montre que ces conceptions ne peuvent être utilisées dans le traitement frégéen de l'oratio obliqua. Il faut donc abandonner soit l'interprétation du Sinn par Dummett, soit le traitement frégéen de l'oratio obliqua.
  • 1. the essence of minimalism
    with Jirdme Dokic
    In G. Preyer (ed.), Context Sensitivity and Semantic Minimalism, Oxford University Press. pp. 169. 2007.
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    Review: Reference and reflexivity (review)
    Mind 112 (445): 171-175. 2003.
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    Washing Away Original Sinn
    Dialogue 38 (4): 743-764. 1999.
    RÉSUMÉ: L'objectif de cet article est essentiellement négatif. Suivant en cela Dummett, j'introduis deux manières attrayantes d'interpréter le Sinn original de Frege, que j'appelle respectivement la doctrine du sens privé et la doctrine du sens public. Je montre que ces conceptions ne peuvent être utilisées dans le traitement frégéen de l'oratio obliqua. Il faut donc abandonner soit l'interprétation du Sinn par Dummett, soit le traitement frégéen de l'oratio obliqua.
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    Référence, contexte et attitudes
    Montréal : Bellarmin. 1995.
    Analyse: La théorie développée dans la lignée de Frege, prédit que les pensées sont pertinentes tant pour la caractérisation de la valeur cognitive que pour l'attribution d'attitudes.
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    Perspectival Thoughts and Psychological Generalizations
    Dialectica 48 (3-4): 307-336. 1994.
    SummaryAgainst an externalist view popularized, among others, by Evans and McDowell I shall show fiat object‐dependent thoughts are psychologically spurious. This version of externalism is contrasted with the picture that thoughts are object‐independent. It is argued that object‐independent thoughts are perspectival and context‐sensitive and that these perspectival thoughts, unlike object‐dependent thoughts: deal with delusion in an intuitive and elegant way; support psychological generalization…Read more
  •  43
    Indexicals and demonstratives
    In Marina Sbisà, Jan-Ola Östman & Jef Verschueren (eds.), Philosophical Perspectives for Pragmatics, John Benjamins. pp. 10--131. 2011.
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    Names, identity, and predication
    Philosophical Studies 175 (10): 2631-2647. 2018.
    It is commonly accepted, after Frege, that identity statements like “Tully is Cicero” differ from statements like “Tully is Tully”. For the former, unlike the latter, are informative. One way to deal with the information problem is to postulate that the terms ‘Tully’ and ‘Cicero’ come equipped with different informative values. Another approach is to claim that statements like these are of the subject/predicate form. As such, they should be analyzed along the way we treat “Tully walks”. Since pr…Read more
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    Perspectival thoughts and psychological generalizations
    Dialectica 48 (3-4): 307-36. 1994.
    SummaryAgainst an externalist view popularized, among others, by Evans and McDowell I shall show fiat object‐dependent thoughts are psychologically spurious. This version of externalism is contrasted with the picture that thoughts are object‐independent. It is argued that object‐independent thoughts are perspectival and context‐sensitive and that these perspectival thoughts, unlike object‐dependent thoughts: deal with delusion in an intuitive and elegant way; support psychological generalization…Read more
  • Loux, MJ-Metaphysics
    Philosophical Books 40 77-78. 1999.
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    Référence directe et psychologisme
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 187 (2). 1997.
  • Penser en contexte. Le phénomène de l'indexicalité, la controverse entre John Perry et Gareth Evans
    with Jérôme Dokic
    Revue Philosophique de la France Et de l'Etranger 184 (4): 476-477. 1994.
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    Reports and Imagination
    ProtoSociology 17 78-98. 2002.
    The following thesis will be discussed and defended:An attitude ascription is an empathetic exercise resting on our, more general, imaginative faculty. Sentences of natural language are the best medium we have to classify someone’s mental life.The sentence used to classify one’s mental state is the one the reporter would use to express the attributee’s mental state if the reporter were in the attributee’s situation. A report of the form “A believes/desires/wishes/… that p” captures the attribute…Read more