The dissertation lays the foundations for a naturalistic account of word meaning capable of addressing the conflicting intuitions that word meanings are both “out there”, world-involving and objective (the “objectivist” intuition) and in the heads of speakers, i.e. cognitive and perspectival (the “mentalist” intuition). The strong naturalization constraint endorsed in this project has it that the sought-after syncretic notion of word meaning must be nonmysterious and constitute a potential object for the natural sciences. The objectivist intuition is discussed within the framework of semantic externalism and the theory of semantic deference. Whereas the importance of the phenomenon of semantic deference (i.e. the fact that speakers defer to...
The studies of Proper Names start to be very fruitful. The present work allows an illuminating insig...
All along its history, semiotic has oscillated between a large and a narrow definition of its object...
This essay attempts some regurgitation of what has been happening in TS these days. It argues that T...
Anyone starting to investigate the asterism of relational arts faces an elementary interrogation : i...
Faced with the decline of the totalizing reason –great protagonist of the modern times– as we experi...
This thesis focuses on the formalisms that make it possible to mathematically represent not only the...
The goal of this research is to provide novel insights into the neurocomputational foundations of se...
Ever since the Enlightenment, the notion of “critique” occupies a central place in western societies...
Ever since the Enlightenment, the notion of “critique” occupies a central place in western societies...
Ever since the Enlightenment, the notion of “critique” occupies a central place in western societies...
The goal of this research is to provide novel insights into the neurocomputational foundations of se...
Anaphora is a ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon whereby the interpretation of one ex- pression, calle...
The thesis provides a novel ontological analysis of direct empirical status (DES). A theoretical sym...
In the animal kingdom some species form complex social groups in which elaborated relationships betw...
When speakers have no access to the conventional label for an object or an event, they tend to exten...
The studies of Proper Names start to be very fruitful. The present work allows an illuminating insig...
All along its history, semiotic has oscillated between a large and a narrow definition of its object...
This essay attempts some regurgitation of what has been happening in TS these days. It argues that T...
Anyone starting to investigate the asterism of relational arts faces an elementary interrogation : i...
Faced with the decline of the totalizing reason –great protagonist of the modern times– as we experi...
This thesis focuses on the formalisms that make it possible to mathematically represent not only the...
The goal of this research is to provide novel insights into the neurocomputational foundations of se...
Ever since the Enlightenment, the notion of “critique” occupies a central place in western societies...
Ever since the Enlightenment, the notion of “critique” occupies a central place in western societies...
Ever since the Enlightenment, the notion of “critique” occupies a central place in western societies...
The goal of this research is to provide novel insights into the neurocomputational foundations of se...
Anaphora is a ubiquitous linguistic phenomenon whereby the interpretation of one ex- pression, calle...
The thesis provides a novel ontological analysis of direct empirical status (DES). A theoretical sym...
In the animal kingdom some species form complex social groups in which elaborated relationships betw...
When speakers have no access to the conventional label for an object or an event, they tend to exten...
The studies of Proper Names start to be very fruitful. The present work allows an illuminating insig...
All along its history, semiotic has oscillated between a large and a narrow definition of its object...
This essay attempts some regurgitation of what has been happening in TS these days. It argues that T...