6. A Penchant For Disguise: The Death (and Rebirth) of the Author in Kierkegaard and Nietzsche
in The Ethics of Authorship
February 2011; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 11469 words.
This chapter situates Kierkegaard's commitment to death in companionship with a similar, if not identical, commitment on the part of Friedrich Nietzsche. Both conceptualize the relation between self...
1. A Question of Style
in The Ethics of Authorship
February 2011; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 9250 words.
This chapter sketches out some significant similarities between Hegel and Kierkegaard in terms of their ideas on language and the ethics of communication and authorship. The extent of this shared...
Abandoning (EOI)
in Simple Sentences, Substitution, and Intuitions
April 2007; published online May 2007.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 8692 words.
This chapter begins by exploring what would be needed to evade fully The Enlightenment Problem, arguing for the abandonment not only of EOI but also of some important variants of EOI. It then...
Abilities and Know-How Attributions
in Knowledge Ascriptions
May 2012; published online September 2012.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 10390 words.
Anti-Intellectualists about know-how, following Ryle, hold that knowing how to do something is simply having the ability to do it. With qualifications, the chapter defends this traditional view. The...
Absolute Mourning: It Is Jacques You Mourn For
in For Derrida
July 2009; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 9695 words.
This chapter explores the word or concept of mourning (deuil), especially the enigmatic phrase “absolute mourning [deuil absolu]” in Le toucher, Jean-Luc Nancy. This...
Acquaintance
in Thought's Footing
August 2006; published online January 2007.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 19408 words.
This chapter focuses on Investigations, §§36-64. It treats a problem raised by Russell in c. 1918: How can a human thinker ever think a singular thought? This discussion of naming individuals (of...
Action
in Philosophy
Published online May 2011.
Article. Subjects: philosophy; aesthetics and philosophy of art; epistemology; feminist philosophy; history of Western philosophy; metaphysics; moral philosophy; non-Western philosophy; philosophy of language; philosophy of law; philosophy of mathematics and logic; philosophy of mind; philosophy of religion; philosophy of science; social and political philosophy. 6260 words.
The philosophy of action shares with its topic a certain uncertainty of location. Is action located inside the mind or outside the mind—or does it in some way belong to both domains...
Adjectives: A Case Study
in Truth-Conditional Pragmatics
November 2010; published online January 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 12051 words.
Some adjectives are said to be relative, that is, dependent for their interpretation upon the noun they modify, and others not. Likewise, some adjectives are said to be intersective, and others (e.g....
Adjectives and Adverbs
in Donald Davidson's Truth-Theoretic Semantics
January 2007; published online May 2008.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 11540 words.
This chapter considers how adjectival and adverbial modification can be handled in a compositional meaning theory. The basic approach in each case is to treat the modifiers as contributing a...
Adorno—Nature—Hegel
in Language Without Soil
November 2009; published online March 2011.
Chapter. Subjects: philosophy of language. 7885 words.
Theodor W. Adorno's innovative understanding of nature and the historical constitutes the core of the two contributions that follow. This chapter illuminates the understanding...