Is a human more conscious than an octopus? In the science of consciousness, it's oftentimes
assumed that some creatures (or mental states) are more conscious than others. But in …

This book reimagines the compositional semantics of comparative sentences using words
such as more, as, too, and others. The book's central thesis entails a rejection of a …

This chapter surveys the contemporary debate in philosophy of language and linguistics
about value judgments. Under this label we find different kinds of judgments such as 'Torture …

Affective information about other people's social behavior may prejudice social interactions
and bias person judgments. The trustworthiness of person-related information, however, can …

A recent development in the psychological and neuroscientific study of consciousness has
been the tendency to conceptualize consciousness as a multidimensional phenomenon …

The current study adopted a multimodal assessment approach to map the idiosyncratic
nature of how individuals perceive, represent, and remember their surroundings and to …

Critics across the political spectrum have worried that ordinary uses of words like
'racist','sexist', and 'homophobic'are becoming conceptually inflated, meaning that these …

Considerable stability of the meanings associated with concrete nouns is arguably important
for their effective use. On the other hand, variability is observed across time, individuals, and …

In this chapter, I tackle the phenomenon known as “faultless disagreement,” considered by
many authors to pose a challenge to the main views on the semantics of subjective …

Abstract Stockwell and Minkova (2001: 34) state that 'the lexicon is the language layer most
responsive to socio-political and cultural changes'. Despite this, lexis has been labelled as …