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Critical Pragmatics

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Peter Pagin
The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 371–374.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2683585
Published: 01 July 2014
...Peter Pagin Korta Kepa Perry John , Critical Pragmatics . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2011 . ix +178 pp. © 2014 by Cornell University 2014 This slim and elegant book by Korta and Perry (KP) is a welcome new contribution to the semantics-pragmatics area...
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Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification

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Jeremy Fantl, Matthew McGrath
The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (1): 67–94.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-1-67
Published: 01 January 2002
...) Evidence, Pragmatics, and Justification Jeremy Fantl and Matthew McGrath Train Case 1. You’re at Back Bay Station in Boston preparing to take the commuter rail to Providence. You’re going to see friends. It will be a relaxing vacation. You’ve been in a rather...
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Belief: A Pragmatic Picture

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Peter Langland-Hassan
The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 326–330.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8810010
Published: 01 April 2021
...Peter Langland-Hassan Zimmerman Aaron Z. , Belief: A Pragmatic Picture . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2018 . xi + 179 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University, 2021 Faced with the live, forced, and momentous option of whether to accept some form of theism, William James had...
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Kuhn's Legacy: Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism

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Howard Sankey
The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (4): 532–535.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-6972700
Published: 01 October 2018
...Howard Sankey Mladenović Bojana , Kuhn's Legacy: Epistemology, Metaphilosophy, and Pragmatism . New York: Columbia University Press , 2017 . xiv + 236 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 Thomas S. Kuhn's famous book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions , is one...
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PRAGMATIC LIBERALISM AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY

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Thomas McCarthy
The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 114–116.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-110-1-114
Published: 01 January 2001
...Thomas McCarthy PRAGMATIC LIBERALISM AND THE CRITIQUE OF MODERNITY. By Gary Gutting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. Pp. xii, 198. Cornell University 2001 BOOK REWEWS The Philosophical him,Vol. 110, No. 1 (‘January 2001...
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Conversational Exculpature

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Daniel Hoek
The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 151–196.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-4326594
Published: 01 April 2018
...Daniel Hoek Conversational exculpature is a pragmatic process whereby information is subtracted from, rather than added to, what the speaker literally says. This pragmatic content subtraction explains why we can say “Rob is six feet tall” without implying that Rob is between 5 ′11.99″ and 6 ′0.01...
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Assertion, Evidence, and the Future

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Dilip Ninan
The Philosophical Review (2022) 131 (4): 405–451.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-10136817
Published: 01 October 2022
...Dilip Ninan This essay uses a puzzle about assertion and time to explore the pragmatics, semantics, and epistemology of future discourse. The puzzle concerns cases in which a subject is in a position to say, at an initial time t , that it will be that ϕ , but is not in a position to say, at a later...
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Counteridenticals

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Alexander W. Kocurek
The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 323–369.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-6718783
Published: 01 July 2018
... to such counterfactuals. In light of this, one could try to save the orthodox theories either by appealing to pragmatics or by denying that the antecedents of alleged counteridenticals really contain identity claims. Or one could reject the orthodox theory of counterfactuals in favor of a hyperintensional semantics...
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Agentive Modals

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Matthew Mandelkern, Ginger Schultheis, David Boylan
The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (3): 301–343.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3878483
Published: 01 July 2017
... natural language modality semantics pragmatics Ability modals are modals like those used in (1), (2), and (3): modals that can be paraphrased with the dedicated ability constructions ‘able’ or ‘has the ability/capacity’. (1) John can go swimming this evening. (2) Mary can touch her nose...
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The Impossibility of Skepticism

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Daniel Greco
The Philosophical Review (2012) 121 (3): 317–358.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-1574418
Published: 01 July 2012
... of this essay, I will ask whether it is possible to be a skeptic, and if so, what it would take, on three different accounts of the nature of doxastic attitudes. On the first account, which I will call the direct pragmatic picture, following Robert Stalnaker (1984), I will argue that it is impossible...
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Context

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Una Stojnić
The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (3): 408–413.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-6718834
Published: 01 July 2018
...Una Stojnić Stalnaker Robert , Context . Oxford: Oxford University Press , 2014 . viii + 248 pp . © 2018 by Cornell University 2018 This book is a development of Stalnaker's dominant research program (going back to Stalnaker 1970 ), defending the “autonomy of pragmatics...
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The American Pragmatists

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Tom Donaldson
The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (3): 355–359.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2683558
Published: 01 July 2014
... . Haack Susan 2006 . Pragmatism, Old and New: Selected Writings . Amherst, NY : Prometheus Books . James William 1975 . Pragmatism: A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking , ed. Bowers F. and Skrupskelis I. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . McAdam...
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Epistemic Modality

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Malte Willer
The Philosophical Review (2013) 122 (4): 641–647.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2315324
Published: 01 October 2013
... of the field, edited and introduced by Andy Egan and Brian Weatherson. Most of the papers published here give detailed accounts of the semantics and pragmatics of plain epistemically modalized sentences such as (1) Mary might be in Chicago. and so I will focus on this aspect of the volume, summarizing...
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Enactivist Interventions: Rethinking the Mind

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István Aranyosi
The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (1): 138–141.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-7213346
Published: 01 January 2019
... origins and potential source of future creativity in this field, namely, pragmatism, Gallagher claims. In the first two chapters of the book, Gallagher looks at the big picture and the most general trends in nonclassical cognitive science and philosophy of mind. There is a lot of diversity...
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Truth, Rationality, and Self-Control: Themes from Peirce

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Douglas Anderson
The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (2): 288–291.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-111-2-288
Published: 01 April 2002
... on Charles Peirce’s notions of truth, ratio- nality, and pragmatism indicates an investigation of Peirce’s overall approach to inquiry. Specifically, he attends to all the features of human experience, from instinctive beliefs to logical constraints, that make scientific inquiry pos- sible. What gives...
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What Makes Time Special?

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Huw Price
The Philosophical Review (2019) 128 (2): 250–254.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-7375049
Published: 01 April 2019
... will play a central role in any plausible pragmatic theory of modality. That's the sense in which time makes these questions about modality special. For the pragmatist, then, modal thinking becomes part of the explanandum —part of the manifest image of time, broadly construed, which it is Callender's...
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Book reviews

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Patrick Rysiew
The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (1): 126–132.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-3683702
Published: 01 January 2017
... is compatible with the speakers' pragmatic presuppositions in C , then w cannot be properly ignored in C . (20) Together with (L * ), this Rule yields the core idea of PEC, and the one that does most of the theoretical work in the book: namely, that a necessary condition for the satisfaction of ‘knows p...
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New Work on Speech Acts

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Samia Hesni
The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (2): 319–322.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-8809984
Published: 01 April 2021
... philosophy of language, linguistics, philosophy of mind, semantics, pragmatics, feminism, and social and political philosophy into conversation with each other in a unified way. If anything comes close, it's this volume. A volume like this might have many goals: making inroads into new applications...
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The Philosophy of Hilary Putnam . The Library of Living Philosophers, vol. 34

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Hasok Chang
The Philosophical Review (2018) 127 (2): 240–247.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-4326677
Published: 01 April 2018
... not only lack essences . . . but also lack necessary and sufficient conditions” (341). There are some differences between Hacking and Putnam here, but I believe that they do converge in the pragmatist spirit in which they understand how natural kind terms function in practice. Pragmatism is the other...
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How Truth Governs Belief

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Nishi Shah
The Philosophical Review (2003) 112 (4): 447–482.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-112-4-447
Published: 01 October 2003
... Now Gibbard does say that pragmatic considerations fail to bear upon what it is rational to believe, and that the only considerations rel- evant to rationality are evidential: Take the stock example of the man who has evidence his wife is unfaith- ful. Whether it is still rational...
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