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Deborah Tollefsen’s “Can Groups Assert that P?”

Breckenridge & Magidor: ‘Arbitrary Reference’

Pain, Painfulness, and Evaluation In this talk, I survey the increasingly rich, contemporary debate about the nature of pain and its unpleasantness.  Along the way, I highlight some of the advantages of my evaluativist view, and, against the messenger-shooting objection, I argue that evaluativism can accommodate the non-instrumental badness of unpleasant pain.

Pluralist Meta-ethical Constructivism and Feminist Social Construction: Meta-ethical Constructivism holds that ethics is grounded upon shared values between agents in a society. In this sense a Constructivist thinks there are correct moral procedures dictated from the ‘moral point of view’ (Street, 2008/2010), the following of which both gives answers to moral questions and justifies the…

Linguistic Conventions and Language Change: I argue that data about language change casts doubt on the following two theses of the Lewisian metasemantic picture: that the essential function of language is communication, and that people share a language in virtue of a common interest (namely, to achieve that particular function). I propose a novel metasemantic…