It's widely accepted that social facts about an individual's linguistic community can affect both the reference of her words and the concepts those words express. Theorists sympathetic to the internalist tradition have sought to accommodate these social dependence phenomena without altering their core theoretical commitments by positing deferential reference-fixing criteria. In this paper, we sketch a different explanation of social dependence phenomena, according to which all concepts are individuated in part by causal-historical relations linking token elements of thought
In this paper I discuss Hilary Putnam’s view of the conditions that need to be fulfilled for a speak...
Abstract: Chomsky (1986) has claimed that the prima facie incompatibility between descriptive lingu...
The dissertation studies a question of longstanding interest in the philosophy of language, which I ...
It's widely accepted that social facts about an individual's linguistic community can affect both th...
This paper critically engages with Jerry Fodor‟s (1998, 2008) notion of referential semantics. I arg...
peer reviewedAre there “social kinds” the way there are “natural kinds”? Are social sciences likely ...
Semantic externalism is the view according to which proper names and other nominals have the capacit...
Semantic deference allows for the meaning of a word w a speaker uses to be determined by the way oth...
The philosophical discussion of conceptual content and linguistic meaning in the 20th century has be...
Putnam famously criticizes the traditional theory of meaning and reference, and argues that no inte...
Semantic deference is the apparent phenomenon whereby some of our concepts have...
There is a traditional opposition between two camps in the theory of reference: descriptivism vs. re...
Reference is of fundamental importance in natural language semantics. In Formal Semantics, reference...
Based on a Relevance Theory-informed view of language development, this paper argues that grammatica...
Some experimental studies have recently claimed to undermine semantic externalism about natural kind...
In this paper I discuss Hilary Putnam’s view of the conditions that need to be fulfilled for a speak...
Abstract: Chomsky (1986) has claimed that the prima facie incompatibility between descriptive lingu...
The dissertation studies a question of longstanding interest in the philosophy of language, which I ...
It's widely accepted that social facts about an individual's linguistic community can affect both th...
This paper critically engages with Jerry Fodor‟s (1998, 2008) notion of referential semantics. I arg...
peer reviewedAre there “social kinds” the way there are “natural kinds”? Are social sciences likely ...
Semantic externalism is the view according to which proper names and other nominals have the capacit...
Semantic deference allows for the meaning of a word w a speaker uses to be determined by the way oth...
The philosophical discussion of conceptual content and linguistic meaning in the 20th century has be...
Putnam famously criticizes the traditional theory of meaning and reference, and argues that no inte...
Semantic deference is the apparent phenomenon whereby some of our concepts have...
There is a traditional opposition between two camps in the theory of reference: descriptivism vs. re...
Reference is of fundamental importance in natural language semantics. In Formal Semantics, reference...
Based on a Relevance Theory-informed view of language development, this paper argues that grammatica...
Some experimental studies have recently claimed to undermine semantic externalism about natural kind...
In this paper I discuss Hilary Putnam’s view of the conditions that need to be fulfilled for a speak...
Abstract: Chomsky (1986) has claimed that the prima facie incompatibility between descriptive lingu...
The dissertation studies a question of longstanding interest in the philosophy of language, which I ...