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Inquiry and Logical Form

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Joint inquiry requires agents to exchange public content about some target domain, which in turn requires them to track which content a linguistic form contributes to a conversation. But, often, the inquiry delivers a necessary truth. For example, if we are inquiring whether a particular bird, Tweety, is a woodpecker, and discover that it is ...
Una Stojnić, Matthew Stone
wiley   +1 more source

Metapoesía y niveles enunciativos en Jenaro Talens

open access: yesRevista de Literatura, 2016
El objetivo de este trabajo es estudiar cómo funciona la enunciación metapoética dentro de la obra poética de Jenaro Talens. Se centra sobre todo en el análisis de textos como «Espacio del poema» y «Método del discurso». En ambos casos se crean una serie
José Manuel Trabado Cabado
doaj   +1 more source

Visual Icons

open access: yesPhilosophy and Phenomenological Research, Volume 113, Issue 2, Page 327-345, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Philosophers often characterize perception as image‐like. There is little agreement, however, about what constitutes an imagistic or iconic representation. This article identifies five signature properties of iconic representations endorsed in the philosophical and scientific literature: item‐richness, feature‐richness, spatiotemporal ...
Jake Quilty‐Dunn
wiley   +1 more source

La question du référent évolutif à la croisée de problématiques linguistiques et philosophiques. Le cas du « morceau de cire » de Descartes

open access: yesCorela
This contribution focuses on anaphoric expressions referring to entities that undergo transformations throughout discourse, thereby raising the issue of coreference.
Malika Temmar
doaj   +1 more source

The Cognitive Foundations of Teaching

open access: yesEvolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, Volume 35, Issue 2, June 2026.
ABSTRACT The propensity to teach is vital to human cultural evolution and to our ecological dominance of the planet, but its cognitive foundations remain poorly understood. Traditional explanations argue that teaching hinges on particular cognitive pre‐requisites, such as Theory of Mind.
Matthew Lomas   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Limits, Limitations, and Necessity in Margaret Macdonald

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 34, Issue 2, Page 717-735, June 2026.
ABSTRACT I offer a contribution to recent work on Margaret Macdonald (1903–1956), a prolific though largely unknown figure in the history of analytic philosophy who applied Wittgensteinian insights to a broad range of issues. Here I examine the development of Macdonald's views with respect to idealism and conventionalism, through the application of a ...
Oliver Thomas Spinney
wiley   +1 more source

Newborn Infants Selectively Attend to Points That Refer to Objects

open access: yesDevelopmental Science, Volume 29, Issue 2, March 2026.
ABSTRACT Recognizing that certain acts are communicative is a key requirement of the development of communicative skills. Newborn infants have been shown to selectively respond to certain ostensive cues, including mutual gaze and infant directed speech, supporting theories of the evolution of ostensive‐inferential communication. That said, no study has
Alessandra Geraci   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

DECEPTIVE SANCTITY: The Geopolitics of Shrines and Concealed Antiquities in Afghanistan

open access: yesCultural Anthropology, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 82-106, February 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores a widely circulated legend in Afghanistan in which foreigners are believed to create shrines to conceal buried antiquities. It represents one of several narratives in which locals express mistrust of foreign motivations and geopolitical deception.
SHAMIM HOMAYUN
wiley   +1 more source

Two Gaps in Studying High‐Fidelity Imitation Across Diverse Childhood Ecologies

open access: yesChild Development Perspectives, Volume 19, Issue 4, Page 189-197, December 2025.
ABSTRACT Recent empirical investigations have concentrated primarily on studying imitation as a social tool that satisfies social motivations, while other potential reasons for and forms of imitation have attracted less attention. These investigations have also focused on studying the role of pedagogy in imitative learning and set up most experiments ...
Frankie T. K. Fong, Daniel B. M. Haun
wiley   +1 more source

Metaphor and Metaphilosophy: Wittgenstein, MacDonald, and Conceptual Metaphor Theory

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Philosophy, Volume 33, Issue 3, Page 1038-1053, September 2025.
Abstract The discipline of philosophy has been critiqued from both within and outside itself. One brand of external critique is associated with Conceptual Metaphor Theory (CMT), the view that human cognition is partially structured by pervasive and automatic mappings between conceptual domains.
Cameron C. Yetman
wiley   +1 more source

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