Hans-Christian Orsted introduced the term" thought experiment" to philosophy in 1811,
although it did not get much philosophical attention until the 1980s. Thought experiments …

Slurs are among the most rhetorically powerful and insidious expressions in a language.
One key reason for this, I will argue, is that they present contents from a certain perspective …

Peter Ludlow shows how word meanings are much more dynamic than we might have
supposed, and explores how meanings are modulated (changed) even during the course of …

The importance of the notion of implicature in the study of irregular negatives was hinted at
in Chap. 1. First, one of the leading theories maintains that the irregular interpretations of …

Most theorizing about linguistic communication assumes that conversation is a cooperative
enterprise—specifically, one in which parties contribute information to a joint project of …

The Hiddenness of God addresses the problem of divine hiddenness which concerns the
ambiguity of evidence for God's existence, the elusiveness of God's comforting presence, the …

Fun fact: the word 'ambiguous', at least according to the Oxford English Dictionary, is
ambiguous: it can mean uncertainty or dubiousness on the one hand and a sign bearing …

Most of us create and use a panoply of non-sentential representations throughout our
ordinary lives: we regularly use maps to navigate, charts to keep track of complex patterns of …

Why did Jesus speak in parables? Why does Plato's Socrates make bad arguments? Why
do we root for criminal heroes? In mummy movies, why is the skeptic always the first to go …

The feeling of clarity can be dangerously seductive. It is the feeling associated with
understanding things. And we use that feeling, in the rough-and-tumble of daily life, as a …