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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (1): 121–124.
Published: 01 January 2006
...Michael Rescorla Christopher Gauker, Words without Meaning . Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2003. xxi + 299 pp. Cornell University 2006 BOOK REVIEWS
Peter Railton, Facts, Values, and Norms.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. xix + 388 pp.
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (3): 463–467.
Published: 01 July 2021
...Mari Mikkola [email protected] McGowan Mary Kate , Just Words: On Speech and Hidden Harm . Oxford : Oxford University Press , 2019 209 pp. © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 This relatively short book has a powerful message. It identifies an overlooked way in which...
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The Philosophical Review (2007) 116 (4): 633–645.
Published: 01 October 2007
... Storia della Filosofia 2 : 261 -71. Spencer, Thomas. 1970 . The Art of Logic . Menston, England: Scolar Press. Stuart, Matthew. 2003 . “Locke's Colors.” Philosophical Review 112 : 57 -96. Locke on the Semantics
of Secondary Quality Words...
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The Philosophical Review (2015) 124 (3): 415–419.
Published: 01 July 2015
...Michael Caie Raffman Diana , Unruly Words . New York : Oxford University Press , 2014 . 215 pp. © 2015 by Cornell University 2015 In Raffman 1994, 1996 , Diana Raffman developed an influential contextualist account of vagueness. In Unruly Words , Raffman presents a new...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 167–171.
Published: 01 January 2021
...Paul Faulkner Moran Richard , The Exchange of Words . Oxford : Oxford University Press . 2018. xv + 232 pp . © 2021 by Cornell University 2021 Much of our knowledge of the world comes through testimony. When philosophers have attempted to explain this fact, it has been...
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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 (2008) 117 (4): 481–524.
Published: 01 October 2008
...Seana Valentine Shiffrin The power to promise is morally fundamental and does not, at its foundation, derive from moral principles that govern our use of conventions. Of course, many features of promising have conventional components—including which words, gestures, or conditions of silence create...
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The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (2): 201–242.
Published: 01 April 2010
... instead to accept the view that morally worthy actions are those performed for the reasons why they are right. In other words, morally worthy actions are those for which the reasons why they were performed (the reasons motivating them) and the reasons why they morally ought to have been performed...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (2): 239–292.
Published: 01 April 2023
...Tyler Brooke-Wilson Perception solves computationally demanding problems at lightning fast speed. It recovers sophisticated representations of the world from degraded inputs, often in a matter of milliseconds. Any theory of perception must be able to explain how this is possible; in other words...
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The Philosophical Review (2005) 114 (2): 179–225.
Published: 01 April 2005
... that num-
ber words like ‘four’ occur in ordinary language in two quite different
ways and that this gives rise to a philosophical puzzle. On the one hand
‘four’ occurs as an adjective, which is to say that it occurs grammatically
in sentences in a position that is commonly occupied by adjectives...
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The Philosophical Review (2000) 109 (2): 293–295.
Published: 01 April 2000
... is dreaming can nevertheless
be ruled out on a number of grounds. For instance, he maintains (in a
way reminiscent of Norman Malcolm’s claim that one cannot think any-
thing in a dream) that one cannot say or mean anything by words uttered
while one is dreaming, and concludes that the words ‘Isn’tit...
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The Philosophical Review (2002) 111 (4): 497–537.
Published: 01 October 2002
... ‘that darn cat’ or the pronoun
‘he’ used deictically (in contrast to its use either as a bound variable or
as a “pronoun of laziness A few philosophers deserve particular
credit for advancing our understanding of demonstratives and other
indexical (that is, context-dependent) words. Though Naming...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (3): 457–459.
Published: 01 July 2001
... such an
examination of details in philosophy” (g52). On Brenner’s reading, the main
source of this resistance is what Wittgenstein calls “the model of ‘object and
designation”’ (s293). This model suggests a “primitive schema” (7) of how
words perform their offices: The critical business of words is somehow...
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The Philosophical Review (2023) 132 (3): 355–458.
Published: 01 July 2023
... what Haley’s probabilities should be if she finds a word; the second row says what they should be if it is completable but she does not find one, etc. ...
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The Philosophical Review (2001) 110 (1): 101–104.
Published: 01 January 2001
... are not uses. Meanings are concepts or, perhaps, properties
(20-21). The role uses play is in constituting meaning properties, in analyz-
ing the property relating a word to a concept; for example (using Horwich’s
convention of capitalization to refer to concepts), ‘x means DOG’consists in
‘x has...
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The Philosophical Review (2021) 130 (1): 171–175.
Published: 01 January 2021
... to answer the question of what are concepts. As mentioned above, concepts play a crucial role in Pietroski's theory: they constitute the cognitive content accessed by the meanings. But what are they, and how do they connect with Slangs’ expressions? Words are notoriously polysemous. Just think...
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The Philosophical Review (2017) 126 (4): 536–541.
Published: 01 October 2017
... Novaes's chapter concerns syncategoremata , those “funny words” that include ‘every’, ‘some’, and ‘not’, among others. Medieval interest in this class of words became especially intense in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, where the primary concern about them was “to investigate the contribution...
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The Philosophical Review (2014) 123 (2): 247–250.
Published: 01 April 2014
...Bruno Verbeek 1. For example, Hartogh (2002) . References Grice H. P. 1989 . Studies in the Way of Words . Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Hart Herbert L. A. 1961 . The Concept of Law . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Hartogh Govert...
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The Philosophical Review (2006) 115 (4): 527–529.
Published: 01 October 2006
... neglected the words of warning be-
queathed to us by the old ordinary language school: a philosophical word
like “determines” often behaves erratically, and one should not entrust great
confi dence in arguments that trade upon pigeonholing its possible modes
of exemplifi cation. Indeed, suitable...
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