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Repositioning Cognitive Kinds
(2022)This dissertation puts forward a series of theoretical proposals aimed to advance our understanding of cognitive kinds. The first chapter introduces the general debates that provide the philosophical underpinnings for the ... -
NEW PERSPECTIVES ON INQUISITIVE SEMANTICS
(2022)Inquisitive semantics offers a unified analysis of declarative and interrogative sentences by construing information exchange as a process of raising and resolving issues. In this dissertation, I apply and extend inquisitive ... -
Philosophy and Translatability
(2021)Can anything that can be said in one language be translated, without loss of meaning, into any other? Katz, inspired by Frege and others, argued for an affirmative answer to this question and proposed a Principle of ... -
Semantics and pragmatics in a modular mind
(2021)This dissertation asks how we should understand the distinction between semantic and pragmatic aspects of linguistic understanding within the framework of mentalism, on which the study of language is a branch of psychology. ... -
ON THE ACTIVITIES AND PARTS OF THE MECHANISMS OF LIFE
(2021)This dissertation advances the new mechanistic philosophy of science by developing novel accounts of activities and good parts. In the first chapter, I develop a Hybrid Account of activities that integrates production and ...