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In this post I reflect on the failures of nonsense-policing and ordinary language philosophy, and the fact that notwithstanding these failur...

Soames, in his fascinating recent work Rethinking Language, Mind, and Meaning , begins by posing a problem for the study of meaning and lang...

My paper ' Propositions, Meaning and Names ' is forthcoming in the Winter 2018 edition of The Philosophical Forum . It derives ...

I wrote the following dialogue as an antidote to the dogmatism I felt myself falling into when trying to write a paper about  a priori  prop...

Yes, but does Nature have no say at all here?! Yes. It is just that she makes herself heard in a different way. Wittgenstein (MS 137). ...

I have recently been enjoying some of Lycan's papers, as well as his Philosophy of Language: A Contemporary Introduction. In Chapter 5 ...

This is another post in my series on semantic granularity. The others so far, in chronological order, are: Kripke's Puzzle and Sema...

Some of the intuitive characterisations given, in the last post , of the notion of internality of truth-value – such as 'internal meani...