Imagine a human society, perhaps in pre-history, in which people were generally of a
psychological kind with us, had the use of natural language to communicate with one …

Some people commonly know a proposition just in case they all know it, they all know that
they all know it, they all know that they all know that they all know it, and so on. They …

Abstract Stalnaker (Context, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2014) defends two ideas about
common ground. The first is that the common ground of a conversation is definable in terms …

Joint attention is an everyday phenomenon in which two or more individuals attend to an
object, event process or property in the presence of each other, such that their attention to …

Some arguments against the assumption that ordinary people may share common
knowledge are sound. The apparent cost of such arguments is the rejection of scientific …

ABSTRACT I argue that the social dimension of alienation, as discussed by Williams and
Railton, has been underappreciated. The lesson typically drawn from their exchange is that …

What is the explanatory scope of pragmatic theory outside the context of uses of language in
general, and of linguistic communication in particular? This question has typically been …

For as long as there have been theories about common knowledge, they have been
exposed to a certain amount of skepticism. Recent more sophisticated arguments question …

Abstract Information can be public among a group. Whether or not information is public
matters, for example, for accounts of interdependent rational choice, of communication, and …

Ontological expressivism is the view that ontological existence claims express non-cognitive
mental states. I develop a version of ontological expressivism that is modeled after Gibbard's …