This piece was written as my Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, held at Melbourne University in July 1999. I discuss the view ‘that we can’t describe or theorise about the world from outside language.’ I call this idea ‘linguistic imprisonment’, and take it to be a platitude, although one that is interpreted very differently by different philosophers. In so far as language does depend on contingencies of our own ‘location’, how should we theorise about such matters? I distinguish two approaches, called ‘backgrounding’ and ‘foregrounding’. Roughly, the latter seeks to incorporate the contingencies into the content of claims that depend on them, whereas the former treats them as use co...
"The present volume is devoted to linguistic studies on the notion of place. The Authors of the con...
These are the slides of the five lectures in the series "Topics in Philosophy of Language", offered ...
Global expressivism is the radical view that we should never think of any of our language and though...
This piece was written as my Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the Australasian Assoc...
Building on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Edward S. Casey, a phenomenological approach to rh...
This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of langua...
There are many different ways to talk about the world. Some ways of talking are more expressive than...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2008.In...
The thesis comprises three foundational studies on the topics named in its title, together with an i...
In the year in which the new Australian government has officially apologized to the Stolen Generatio...
The essays that make up my dissertation share a methodological approach that aims to explore the phi...
Most of the theories of location on the market appear to be ideologically parsimonious at least in t...
Cultural representations· of the world permeate much of human experience of that world. In this soci...
In this essay I take up the problem of doing non-Western, particularly Indian, philosophy in English...
Languages differ widely in terms of how they encode the fundamental concepts of location and positio...
"The present volume is devoted to linguistic studies on the notion of place. The Authors of the con...
These are the slides of the five lectures in the series "Topics in Philosophy of Language", offered ...
Global expressivism is the radical view that we should never think of any of our language and though...
This piece was written as my Presidential Address at the Annual Conference of the Australasian Assoc...
Building on the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Edward S. Casey, a phenomenological approach to rh...
This book defends a version of linguistic idealism, the thesis that the world is a product of langua...
There are many different ways to talk about the world. Some ways of talking are more expressive than...
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Linguistics and Philosophy, 2008.In...
The thesis comprises three foundational studies on the topics named in its title, together with an i...
In the year in which the new Australian government has officially apologized to the Stolen Generatio...
The essays that make up my dissertation share a methodological approach that aims to explore the phi...
Most of the theories of location on the market appear to be ideologically parsimonious at least in t...
Cultural representations· of the world permeate much of human experience of that world. In this soci...
In this essay I take up the problem of doing non-Western, particularly Indian, philosophy in English...
Languages differ widely in terms of how they encode the fundamental concepts of location and positio...
"The present volume is devoted to linguistic studies on the notion of place. The Authors of the con...
These are the slides of the five lectures in the series "Topics in Philosophy of Language", offered ...
Global expressivism is the radical view that we should never think of any of our language and though...