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Referring and Articulating: Davidson and Haddock on Quotation

Donald Davidson (1979) holds that quoting is a matter of referring demonstratively. In ‘The Wonder of Signs’, Adrian Haddock (2021) advances an original and challenging argument against this…

III—The Wonder Of Signs

Anscombe (1956) raises a difficulty for the very idea of quotation. Davidson (1979) seeks to dissolve this difficulty. But the difficulty is real. And its lesson is that, in quotation, language…

Qualitative Sociological Research Methodologies and Psychoanalytic Thinking- Congruence, “Discongruence” and Lacunae

ABSTRACT Qualitive methodologies and psychoanalysis have much in common as ways to understand the meaning of human experience. However, they each have lacunae, or areas of absence, which other kinds…

The fine-grainedness of poetry: A new argument against the received view

This paper formulates a new argument against the received view in the philosophy of poetry. The received view consists of three tenets: the unity of poetic form and poetic content; the…

Every Word is a Name: Autonymy and Quotation in Augustine

Augustine famously claims every word is a name. Some readers take Augustine to thereby maintain a purely referentialist semantic account according to which every word is a referential expression…

Mostafa Morady Moghaddam，The praxis of indirect reports: cognitive, sociopragmatic, and philosophical issues

This article reviews The Praxis of Indirect Reports: Cognitive, Sociopragmatic, and Philosophical Issues 978-3-030-14269-8

Rules as Resources: An Ecological-Enactive Perspective on Linguistic Normativity

In this paper, I develop an ecological-enactive perspective on the role rules play in linguistic behaviour. I formulate and motivate the hypothesis that metalinguistic reflexivity – our ability to…

The myth of occurrence-based semantics

The principle of compositionality requires that the meaning of a complex expression remains the same after substitution of synonymous expressions. Alleged counterexamples to compositionality seem to…