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Thomasson on Modal Language
In recent work, Amie Thomasson has defended what she calls normativism about metaphysical modality. She claims that discourse about metaphysical...
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Other minds are neither seen nor inferred
How do we know about other minds on the basis of perception? The two most common answers to this question are that we literally perceive others’...
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Through thick and thin: seamless metaconceptualism
One major insight derived from the moral twin earth debate is that evaluative and descriptive terms possess different levels of semantic stability,...
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Introduction: Theories, Models, and Scientific Representations
Alejandro Cassini and Juan Redmond offer an elementary but fairly complete and extensive introduction to the present state of the philosophy of...
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In Defense of Unilateralism
Assertion and denial are speech acts that play a central role in different theories of meaning, but the proper way to understand their relation...
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On the Genealogy and Potential Abuse of Assertoric Norms
After briefly laying out a cultural-evolutionary approach to speech acts (Sects. 1–2), I argue that the notion of commitment at play in assertion and...
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Groundbreaking Principles
Several principles shape the pragmatist take on logic that I will defend in this book. The essential four are the Principle of Assertion (PA), the...
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An account of overt intentional dogwhistling
Political communication in modern democratic societies often requires the speaker to address multiple audiences with heterogeneous values, interests...
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The transparency of expressivism
The paper argues that Gareth Evans’ argument for transparent self-knowledge is based on a conflation of doxastic transparency with ascriptive...
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Truth and Satisfaction: Frege Versus Tarski
In this chapter I discuss the philosophical presuppositions and consequences of Tarski’s and Frege’s approaches to truth. Tarski’s is the most...
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Visual Arguments: What Is at Issue in the Multimodality Debate?
Informal Logic and Argumentation Theory claim to accept a sense of ‘argument’ that is broader than the sense used in classical logic and mainstream...
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Introduction
This volume represents a multidisciplinary effort in the study of dialog considering multiple research fields, including linguistics, logic and...
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Pragmatics, Rhetoric and Semantics
In the introduction to their collection on Argumentation and Language, Oswald et al. cite three categories of research examining relations between...
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Semantic and Pragmatic Hints in Frege’s Logical Theory
Frege is the acclaimed father of twentieth-century logic and at the same time the father of the discipline philosophy of language. Both of these...
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Śālikanātha on Absence in the Pramān.ṇapārāyan.ṇa: An Introduction and Translation
This is a brief philosophical introduction to, and an annotated translation of, the section on absence from Śālikanātha’s Pramāṇapārāyaṇa ( Study of...
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Zhuangzi’s Way of Harmonizing Right and Wrong: Disagreement and Relativism in Disputation
Contemporary interpretations of Zhuangzi’s 莊子 philosophy as adumbrating a relativist position are legion. However, what is the scope and nature of...
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Models and Idealizations in Science Artifactual and Fictional Approaches
This book provides both an introduction to the philosophy of scientific modeling and a contribution to the discussion and clarification of two recent...
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Structural Disjunctivism, Indistinguishability and Introspection
1Perceptual disjunctivism, as I regard it in this paper, is the view that veridical perceptions and hallucinations, while indistinguishable via...
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Proof-Theoretic Semantics: An Autobiographical Survey
In this autobiographical sketch, which is followed by a bibliography of my writings, I try to relate my intellectual development to problems, ideas...
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Inferentialism, degrees of commitment, and ampliative reasoning
Our purpose in this paper is to contribute to a practice-based characterization of scientific inference. We want to explore whether Brandom’s...