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Naked mole rats

I’ve noted recently a certain zoological obsession on the part of formal semanticists. It’s not just formal semantics, it turns out, but philosophy of language in general. I hope, in fact, that this will turn into an irregular Friday feature (Friday being the day we usually have talks). Today’s speaker, Herman Cappelen, told us that [...]

Who says philosophy is out of touch with the real world?

Theory: We of the jury may wish to ignore [a particular possibility], and wish it had not been mentioned. If we ignored it now, we would bend the rules of cooperative conversation; but we may have good reason to do exactly that. [...] We would ignore the far-fetched possibility if we could—but can we? Perhaps [...]