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Model‐Based Semantics: Doing Without Meaning Constitution
Metaphilosophy, Volume 57, Issue 1-2, Page 103-118, January 2026.Abstract This paper introduces a model‐based account of meaning, arguing that meaning properties reside in models rather than in the external world. Building on this view, it explores how such an instrumentalist framework can engage critically with various concerns raised by Wittgenstein, Quine, and Kripke[nstein]—each of whom voiced scepticism toward ...
Pietro Salis
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Expressivism, self-knowledge, and rational agency
Humanities & Social Sciences Communications, 2020 One family of thought about self-knowledge has argued that authoritative self-ascriptions express a form of higher-order knowledge whose special character is explained by the role that knowledge plays in rational agency.
Stephen Blackwood
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Expressing What You Say: Neo‐Expressivism and the Matching Question
Theoria, Volume 91, Issue 5, October 2025.ABSTRACT It is often appropriate to defer to one another when we ascribe mental states to ourselves in the present tense, even when these self‐ascriptions are evidentially unsupported. One way to explain this ‘first‐person authority’ is in terms of what such self‐ascriptions express.
Benjamin Ian Winokur
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Three Kinds of Logical Expressivism [PDF]
In this paper, I distinguish and compare three kinds of logical expressivism. The first, reminiscent of attitude expressivism in meta-ethics, holds that logic is expressive in that logical vocabulary serves to express attitudes. For instance, traditional
Incurvati, Luca
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Towards a Fregean psycholinguistics
Analytic Philosophy, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 349-371, September 2025.Abstract This paper is partly exegetical, partly systematic. I argue that Frege's account of what he called “colouring” contains some important insights on how communication is related to mental states such as mental images or emotions. I also show that the Fregean perspective is supported by current research in psycholinguistics and that a full ...
Thorsten Sander
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“Now what?” in Social Ontology and Metaethics
Journal of Social OntologyError theorists of all stripes face the “Now what?”-question: what do we do with our judgements if they are systematically erroneous? The question is perhaps most commonly discussed with error theories about all moral judgements or all normative ...
Olof Leffler
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Is it moral to punish a criminal both during his lifetime and posthumously?
The Southern Journal of Philosophy, Volume 63, Issue 3, Page 330-339, September 2025.Abstract We seek to probe into the question of whether it is moral to administer a punishment on a criminal both in his lifetime and posthumously. Is it moral to punish a murderer both during his lifetime by sentencing him, for instance, to life imprisonment, and posthumously—let us assume—by burial in a separate section of the cemetery exclusively ...
Adam Weiler Gur Arye, Meshi Ori
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SententiaeReview of Chrisman, M. (2023) What is this Thing Called Metaethics? Abingdon: Routledge.
Herman Vykhor
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International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Volume 35, Issue 3, Page 1285-1297, August 2025.ABSTRACT Despite the significance of second language (L2) writing curricula in guiding effective and successful teaching practices, limited studies have explored the underlying pedagogical philosophies and values in writing curricula in L2 school contexts.
Shulin Yu, Simin Liu
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Expression, Description, and Conscious Belief
Ideas y Valores, 2014 The paper reviews expressivism with respect to statements of the form “I believe that p”. The expressivist holds that the statement “I believe it is raining” is an expression and not a description of the belief that it is raining.
Javier Vidal López
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