Research Group
in Analytic Philosophy

Meaning and Context Updating: Three Problems, One (Simple) Solution

03 May 2017  |  15:00  |  Seminari de Filosofia UB

Abstract

I will present 3 problems related to (i) Grice’s analysis of speaker meaning, (ii) Stalnaker’s account of assertion, and (iii) the existence of so called “anti presuppositions”, and claim that they can be solved by taking into account what I will call the “volatility of context”.