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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 536–541.
Published: 01 October 2017
...Nathaniel Bulthuis Cameron Margaret and Stainton Robert J. , eds., Linguistic Content: New Essays on the History of Philosophy of Language . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2015 . 272 pp . © 2017 by Cornell University 2017 Cameron and Stainton's edited volume...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 299–352.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Andrew Bacon Most work on the semantic paradoxes within classical logic has centered around what this essay calls “linguistic” accounts of the paradoxes: they attribute to sentences or utterances of sentences some property that is supposed to explain their paradoxical or nonparadoxical status...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (4): 591–642.
Published: 01 October 2020
... that one should think of attitude formation like one does (practical) choices among options. The article motivates this view linguistically, extending “relevant alternatives” theories of the attitudes to both belief and to the other, non-doxastic attitudes. Given a natural principle governing choice...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 97–143.
Published: 01 January 2021
..., parentheticalism opens the door to altogether eliminating the act-type of assertion from linguistic theorizing. Representing Knowledge Peter van Elswyk University of Wisconsin Milwaukee 1. Introduction The use of a declarative sentence in a context has two effects: it expresses a proposition and represents...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 345–383.
Published: 01 July 2017
... knowledge. This essay defends intellectualism from the argument of gradability. It is argued that the gradability of ascriptions of know-how should be discounted as a rather superficial linguistic phenomenon, one that can be explained in a way compatible with the absoluteness of the state reported. © 2017...
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The Philosophical Review (2020) 129 (1): 53–94.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Anders J. Schoubye M ILLIANISM and DESCRIPTIVISM are without question the two most prominent views with respect to the semantics of proper names. However, debates between MILLIANS and DESCRIPTIVISTS have tended to focus on a fairly narrow set of linguistic data and an equally narrow set of problems...
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The Philosophical Review (2011) 120 (1): 1–41.
Published: 01 January 2011
... sense of 'ought', on which it relates agents to actions. In contrast, logically and linguistically sophisticated philosophers have typically rejected this naive view. According to them, there is no argument-place for an agent in any relation expressed by 'ought', nor is there any argument-place...
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The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 359–406.
Published: 01 July 2012
... of the interaction between context and linguistic meaning: compositional semantics does not need to look at the context and hence has no need for a context parameter. © 2012 by Cornell University 2012 For comments, questions, mentorship, and encouragement, thanks to Corine Besson, Alex Byrne, Fabrizio...
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The Philosophical Review (2008) 117 (1): 1–47.
Published: 01 January 2008
... give voice to our most cognitively primitive generalizations and that this hypothesis accounts for a variety of facts ranging from acquisition patterns to cross-linguistic data concerning the phonological articulation of operators. I go on to develop an account of the nature of these cognitively...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 337–364.
Published: 01 July 2010
... are filled in, the hypothesis becomes far more puzzling than the linguistic data it is used to explain. No matter how the creationist identifies where, when and how fictional objects are created, the proposal conflicts with other strong intuitions we have about fictional characters. © 2010 by Cornell...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (4): 579–627.
Published: 01 October 2023
...Gabriel Greenberg It is common to distinguish two great families of representation. Symbolic representations include logical and mathematical symbols, words, and complex linguistic expressions. Iconic representations include dials, diagrams, maps, pictures, 3-dimensional models, and depictive...
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The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 151–196.
Published: 01 April 2018
... how the resulting theory of conversational exculpature accounts for a varied range of linguistic phenomena. A distinctive feature of the approach is the crucial role played by the question under discussion in determining the result of a given exculpature. A sign that this is on the right track...
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The Philosophical Review (2024) 133 (1): 87–91.
Published: 01 January 2024
... of Stojnić’s view is her conventionalist interpretation of her model of discourse context. She argues that the context “is a running record of linguistic information that is contributed by discourse-internal, linguistic cues” and that it, “in turn, fully determines the interpretation by fixing the content...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 393–402.
Published: 01 July 2009
.... Fodor, J. 1981 . “Introduction: Some Notes on What Linguists Are Talking About.” In Readings in the Philosophy of Psychology , ed. N. Block, vol. 2 , 197 -207. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. Graves, C., J. J. Katz, Y. Nishiyama, S. Soames, R. Stecker, and P. Tovey. 1973 . “Tacit...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 375–377.
Published: 01 July 2009
... ofcon- ceptualizing and understanding the self? In raising and responding to such ques- tions, Inwood wants not only to position Seneca historically but also to distin- guish philosophical substance from what, he fears, may be merely its linguistic 379...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 378–381.
Published: 01 July 2009
... model for moral thought? Does he advance a fresh way ofcon- ceptualizing and understanding the self? In raising and responding to such ques- tions, Inwood wants not only to position Seneca historically but also to distin- guish philosophical substance from what, he fears, may be merely its linguistic...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 381–384.
Published: 01 July 2009
... model for moral thought? Does he advance a fresh way ofcon- ceptualizing and understanding the self? In raising and responding to such ques- tions, Inwood wants not only to position Seneca historically but also to distin- guish philosophical substance from what, he fears, may be merely its linguistic...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 384–389.
Published: 01 July 2009
... model for moral thought? Does he advance a fresh way ofcon- ceptualizing and understanding the self? In raising and responding to such ques- tions, Inwood wants not only to position Seneca historically but also to distin- guish philosophical substance from what, he fears, may be merely its linguistic...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 390–392.
Published: 01 July 2009
... model for moral thought? Does he advance a fresh way ofcon- ceptualizing and understanding the self? In raising and responding to such ques- tions, Inwood wants not only to position Seneca historically but also to distin- guish philosophical substance from what, he fears, may be merely its linguistic...
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The Philosophical Review (2009) 118 (3): 402–406.
Published: 01 July 2009
... model for moral thought? Does he advance a fresh way ofcon- ceptualizing and understanding the self? In raising and responding to such ques- tions, Inwood wants not only to position Seneca historically but also to distin- guish philosophical substance from what, he fears, may be merely its linguistic...