Daniel Nolan (ANU): Some Gaps in Gibbard's Expressivism
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Alan Gibbard in his 1990 book suggests a tempting route for developing a systematic treatment of language for expressivists and non-factualists. Developing that suggestion leads to some difficult choice points for the expressivist. I will focus on a few of these challenges: two challenges about…
Martin Davies (Oxford): Cognitive theories of delusion.
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Cognitive theories of delusion Martin Davies Faculty of Philosophy and Department of Experimental Psychology University of Oxford A dominant cognitive theory of delusion is the two-factor theory developed by Coltheart and colleagues (e.g. Coltheart, 2007, 2010; Coltheart et al., 2011). The…
Wolfgang Schwarz (ANU): The (pragmatic) power of unspecificity
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Sometimes, if we say something unspecific, what we say is taken to imply several more specific things. For example, 'you're allowed to take electrical items in your hand luggage' suggests that you're allowed to take computers, cameras, and hand dryers (but perhaps not tasers). Similarly, 'she might…