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What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought? (2020)
Journal Article
Dupre. (2020). What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought?. Linguistics and Philosophy, 773 - 812. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10988-020-09304-9

AbstractTraditional arguments against the identification of the language of thought with natural language assume a picture of natural language which is largely inconsistent with that suggested by contemporary linguistic theory. This has led certain p... Read More about What would it mean for natural language to be the language of thought?.

Idealisation in semantics: truth-conditional semantics for radical contextualists (2020)
Journal Article
Dupre. (2020). Idealisation in semantics: truth-conditional semantics for radical contextualists. Inquiry, 1 - 30. https://doi.org/10.1080/0020174X.2020.1712225

In this paper, I shall provide a novel response to the argument from context-sensitivity against truth-conditional semantics. It is often argued that the contextual influences on truth-conditions outstrip the resources of standard truth-conditional a... Read More about Idealisation in semantics: truth-conditional semantics for radical contextualists.