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Expressive Responding, Experimental Philosophy, and Philosophical Expertise
The Experimental Philosophy (“X-Phi”) movement applies the methodology of empirical sciences – most commonly empirical psychology – to traditional...
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Meaning change and changing meaning
Is conceptual engineering feasible? Answering that question requires a theory of semantic change, which is sometimes thought elusive. Fortunately,...
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What Is Wrong with Aesthetic Empiricism? An Experimental Study
According to Aesthetic Empiricism, only the features of artworks accessible by sensory perception can be aesthetically relevant. In other words,...
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Climate Change and Anti-Meaning
In this paper, we propose meaningfulness as one important evaluative criterion in individual climate ethics and suggest that most of our greenhouse...
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Slurs and Expressive Commitments
Most accounts of the derogatory meaning of slurs are semantic. Recently, Nunberg (
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Absence of other and disruption of self: an interpretative phenomenological analysis of the meaning of loneliness in the context of life in a religious community
Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is an idiographic approach to qualitative research. It is widely used in psychologically-informed...
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Beyond the Meaning of Words: Issues in Neuropragmatics, Clinical Pragmatics and Schizophrenic Language
Over the last decades, theoretical and empirical evidence, first provided by language pragmatics and then by clinical pragmatics and neuropragmatics,...
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The Social Machine: Artificial Intelligence (AI) Approaches to Theory of Mind
The ability to infer cognitive states is essential for the introduction of artificial intelligence (AI) into society. This chapter aims to present...
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When is it ok to call someone a jerk? An experimental investigation of expressives
We present two experimental studies on the Italian expressive ‘stronzo’ (English ‘jerk’). The first study tests whether, and to which extent, the...
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A Pragmatics-First Approach to Faces
This article aims to make a philosophical contribution to the understanding of the communicative dimensions and functions of faces and facial...
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Content and Process in the Brain. Implications for Clinical and Educational Approaches
Subjects may be aware in each moment of the content of a given scene and/or internal state. However, the vivid reality of the scene is a by-product...
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Language Without a Code: Islamic Geometry and Modernity
Do geometric patterns characterizing many surface treatments in Islamic cultures represent? If so, can pattern function as an image? The question of...
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Intentionality, pointing, and early symbolic cognition
Concepts such as “symbolism” and “symbolic cognition” often remain unspecified in discussions the symbolic capacities of earlier hominins. In this...
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Composing words and non-words
Recent work in supersemantics and in the semantic interpretation of prosody has showed that non-words (gestural, prosodic an iconic elements) can...
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Experimentally-Informed Philosophy of Hate Speech
The past 20 years witnessed a growing interest in philosophy of language and linguistics for expressives and, in particular, for slurs – terms that...
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Dual Aspectivity and the Expressive Moments of Illumination: Rethinking the Explanatory Gap
In Cognitive science and philosophy of consciousness, the explanatory gap, following Joseph Levine, refers to the unintelligible link between our...
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Slurs in the Rio de la Plata
The goal of this paper is to explore the use of slurs in Rioplatense Spanish (RpS, variety spoken around the Rio de la Plata Basin of Uruguay and...
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The Orchestration of Bodies and Artifacts in French Family Dinners
Despite de Saussure’s (1959) visionary writings as to the importance of parole (speech) as well as langue (the language system), the linguistics he...
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The Christian Contribution to Conscious Capitalism
The purpose of this chapter is to offer a vision on the possible improvement of capitalism, exploring the possibilities of ethical change generated...