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Elisabeth Pacherie’s “Self-Agency”

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…

Cognitive Acquaintance: A Non-Causal Alternative Within literature on singular thought and reference, acquaintance is one of the ‘orthodox’ ways successful reference is achieved. Generally speaking, an acquaintance theory articulates that there must be some relation existing between subject and object. While the notion has developed significantly since Russell’s articulation of it, today the acquaintance relation…