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  • Repositioning Cognitive Kinds 

    Roige Mas, Aida (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 

    Zhang, Yichi (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 

    Enos, Casey (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 

    McCourt, Michael Sullivan (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 

    Kalewold, Kalewold Hailu (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 ...

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