First Annual Mexican Philosophers' Conference
Eduardo Garcia-Ramirez Third-year graduate student in the Philosophy Department of the University of Michigan. Interested in Philosophy of Mind and Language. Cares about Proper Names and what psycholinguistics says about them. Enjoys translating Lewis into Spanish and reading Aristotle on Mental Content. |
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Abstract: Stalnaker (1978) and (1998) offers a picture of communication. According to this picture, acts of assertion manage to be informative by conveying either one of two options: the content of the uttered sentences or the diagonal of the corresponding matrix. In this paper I present different common speech acts that prove problematic for this theory. I then offer a Gricean story in order to save the theory. The account is only partially effective. A problem remains for two-dimensional theories of assertion. |
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