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349What Is Said by MetaphorSoochow Journal of Philosophical Studies 30 35-53. 2014.‘What is said’ by an utterance, from a traditional truth-conditional view of language, is the uttered sentence’s conventionally encoded semantic meaning, and is distinguished from ‘what is implicated’, such as metaphor, which is understood as a type of speech in which a speaker says one thing but means another. Contextualists challenge this view of metaphor by offering three reasons to maintain that metaphor is classified within ‘what is said’: first, metaphor involves loose use; second, metapho…Read more
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170On the Very Idea of a Minimal PropositionNTU Philosophical Review 53 35-74. 2017.Can the idea of a minimal proposition be successfully held? I will first formulate what the minimal proposition is in the minimalist’s mind, taking Emma Borg as the representative. What a minimalist seeks for a minimal proposition is the abstract and skeletal core meaning of a sentence, and this faith is founded on the notion of minimal word meaning—an atomic, code-like, conceptual thing. I show that the problem of this notion of minimal proposition lies in the three features, intuitive read-off…Read more
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67The Semantic Theory and the Availability PrincipleNTU Philosophical Review 48 123-158. 2014.This paper aims to defend François Recanati’s Availability Principle approach to semantics by illuminating and responding to two major challenges from minimalists, in particular from Emma Borg: the first concerns the notion of intuitive content and “awareness-of” presupposed in the Availability Principle, and the second concerns whether the principle makes a semantic theory unfit with normativity and compositionality. I lead the discussion toward the kernel question--the bearer of the semantic c…Read more
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54Phronesis-Oriented Philosophical Counselling: Focusing on Semantic SentimentUniversitas: Monthly Review of Philosophy and Culture 49 (12). 2022.This article aims at developing a phronesis-oriented philosophical counselling, with a focus on the idea of semantic sentiment. In Section 1, we elucidate the characteristics of phronesis-oriented approach to philosophical counselling and state our reason for adopting this approach. In Section 2, we consider three visions of phronesis-oriented philosophical counselling, i.e., the Socratic vision, the Platonic vision, and the skill-based vision, and argue for the third vision. In Sections 3 and 4…Read more
Hsiu-lin Ku
Chinese Culture University
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Chinese Culture UniversityAssociate Professor
Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Semantic Contextualism |
Semantic Minimalism |
Context and Context-Dependence, Misc |