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168Political Bald-Faced Lies are Performative UtterancesIn Adam Podlaskowski & Drew Johnson (eds.), Truth 20/20, Synthese Library. forthcoming.Sometimes, political bald-faced lies pass for truth. That is, certain groups of people behave according to them – behave as if the political bald-faced lies were true. How can this phenomenon be explained? I argue that to explain it we need to take political bald-faced lies to be performative utterances whose goal is to bring about a worldly state of affairs just in virtue of making the utterance. When the former US-President tweeted ‘we won the election’, people stormed Capitol Hill to protest …Read more
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131Truth dependence against transparent truthAsian Journal of Philosophy 3 (1): 1-17. 2024.Beall’s (e.g., 2009, 2021) transparency theory of truth is recognized as a prominent, deflationist solution to the liar paradox. However, it has been neglected by truth theorists who have attempted to show that a deflationist theory of truth can (or cannot) account for truth dependence, i.e., the claim that the truth of a proposition depends on how things described by the proposition are, but how these things are does not depend on the truth of the proposition. Truth theorists interested in trut…Read more
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167Embodying Artifact Production KnowledgeProceedings of a Body of Knowledge, Access at Https://Escholarship.Org/Uc/Item/92J9B1J0. 2018.On a modified view of embodied cognition, I argue that the conceptual structure of some present-day’s abstract artifact concepts such as PIECE OF MUSIC or PIECE OF ART can be effectively explained if it is taken into account that “visual recordings” of first observed result objects played a major role in developing abstract artifact concepts.
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Areas of Specialization
Philosophy of Language |
Theories of Truth |
Truthmakers |