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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...

In one of my favourite papers about modal metaphysics, Rosen's 'The Limits of Contingency', Rosen develops the idea that there a...

I want to clarify some aspects of the celebrated Wittgensteinian idea of a family resemblance concept. Are all family resemblance concepts...

Many, probably most, intelligent speakers and thinkers are linguistic opportunists. They treat words and phrases as tools to convey things t...

The Accident of Logical Constants Work on the nature and scope of formal logic has focused unduly on the distinction between logical an...

This is a sequel to the previous post, in which I continue to react to interesting recent "cognitive act theories" of proposition...

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