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53Conversations with ChatbotsIn Patrick Connolly, Sandy Goldberg & Jennifer Saul (eds.), Conversations Online, Oxford University Press. forthcoming.The problem considered in this chapter emerges from the tension we find when looking at the design and architecture of chatbots on the one hand and their conversational aptitude on the other. In the way that LLM chatbots are designed and built, we have good reason to suppose they don't possess second-order capacities such as intention, belief or knowledge. Yet theories of conversation make great use of second-order capacities of speakers and their audiences to explain how aspects of interaction …Read more
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1Exploring Linguistic LiabilityIn Ernest Lepore & David Sosa (eds.), Oxford Studies in Philosophy of Language Volume 2, Oxford Studies in Philosophy O. 2021.There is a well-established social practice whereby we hold one another responsible for the things that we say. Speakers are held liable for the truth of the contents they express and they can be sanctioned and/or held to be unreliable or devious if it turns out what they say is false. In this paper chapter we argue that a better understanding of this fundamental socio-linguistic practice – of ascribing what we will term (following Borg (2019)) ‘linguistic liability’ – helps to shed light on a c…Read more
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121Trolling as speech actJournal of Social Philosophy 53 (3): 404-420. 2021.Journal of Social Philosophy, Volume 53, Issue 3, Page 404-420, Fall 2022.
University of Sheffield
PhD, 2021
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
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