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 …

How do hearers manage to understand speakers? And how do speakers manage to shape
hearers' understanding? Lepore and Stone show that standard views about the workings of …

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 …

I propose that an account of metaphor understanding which covers the full range of cases
has to allow for two routes or modes of processing. One is a process of rapid, local, on-line …

After an introductory section, this article will focus on four questions: How should the Kyoto
School be defined? What is meant by its central philosophical concept of “absolute …

Anthony Everett defends the commonsense view that there are no such things as fictional
people, places, and things. More precisely he develops and defends a pretense theoretic …

Tamar Gendler draws together in this book a series of essays in which she investigates
philosophical methodology, which is now emerging as a central topic of philosophical …

Hans-Christian Ørsted introduced the term “thought experiment” to philosophy in 1811,
although it did not get much philosophical attention until the 1980s. This is therefore a …

I distinguish among a range of distinct representational devices, which I call" frames", all of
which have the function of providing a perspective on a subject: an overarching intuitive …

Hans-Christian Ørsted introduced the term “thought experiment” to philosophy in 1811,
although it did not get much philosophical attention until the 1980s. This is therefore a …