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I'm hiring a two-year postdoc in philosophy of language and mind, based at the University of Iceland. The postdoc will also be a Visiting Scholar at University College Dublin. Based on a grant Dan Harris and I received: philjobs.org/job/show/25898
February 21, 2024 at 4:23 PM
Adult language features vision verbs frequently, followed by hearing, but rarely touch. In young children's language, we find vision verbs do appear first and more frequently, but touch appears before hearing, consistent with embodied accounts of meaning. doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13469
Vision Verbs Emerge First in English Acquisition but Touch, not Audition, Follows Second
Words that describe sensory perception give insight into how language mediates human experience, and the acquisition of these words is one way to examine how we learn to categorize and communicate se....
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March 12, 2026 at 7:48 PM
I also got an email from a first year student asking for summer reading on perception over the summer. Hooked em! #philperception #academia #metaethics #phillanguage #philosophyofmind
May 7, 2025 at 8:47 AM
I also got an email from a first year student asking for summer reading on perception over the summer. Hooked em! #philperception #academia #metaethics #phillanguage #philosophyofmind
As folks are making syllabi: If you'll teach/work on philosophy of language or recent stuff on non-ideal theory in the spring, this paper might be of interest. Written with a former student not on bsky, Molly Moran.
Abstract in the comments. #philsky #philosophy #phillanguage #nonidealtheory
Abstract in the comments. #philsky #philosophy #phillanguage #nonidealtheory
Using the Ideal/Nonideal Distinction in Philosophy of Language (and Elsewhere)
Herman Cappelen and Josh Dever (C&D) have recently argued that the ideal/non-ideal distinction is ‘useless’ in philosophy of language. This paper responds to C&D’s argument, develops an account of ...
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January 6, 2025 at 6:25 PM
As folks are making syllabi: If you'll teach/work on philosophy of language or recent stuff on non-ideal theory in the spring, this paper might be of interest. Written with a former student not on bsky, Molly Moran.
Abstract in the comments. #philsky #philosophy #phillanguage #nonidealtheory
Abstract in the comments. #philsky #philosophy #phillanguage #nonidealtheory
Recent work from #Tampere #Philosophy: Jaakko Reinikainen defending a pure causal-historical theory of #Reference fixing for natural kind terms. #PhilLanguage #Language #Philsky
Defending the pure causal-historical theory of reference fixing for natural kind terms - Synthese
According to the causal-historical theory of reference, natural kind terms refer in virtue of complicated causal relations the speakers have to their environment. A common objection to the theory is t...
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January 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Recent work from #Tampere #Philosophy: Jaakko Reinikainen defending a pure causal-historical theory of #Reference fixing for natural kind terms. #PhilLanguage #Language #Philsky
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