In un tentativo di autodifesa che all’epoca apparve ai più come disperato, Bill Clinton ebbe a dire che l’esistenza o meno del suo affaire con Monica Lewinsky dipendeva da quale significato si sarebbe dovuto attibuire alla semplice parole «è». Che il legame tra le parole e la realtà non sia esattame...

Derivare conseguenze metafisiche. Da una teoria davidsoniana del significato

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Peter Ludlow (8 nov. 2021)

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‘Drawing Metaphysical Consequences from a T-theory’. Pubblicato come quarto capitolo di Semantics, Tense, and Time: An Essay in the Metaphysics of Natural Language, Cambridge, Massachussetts, MIT Press, 1999. Per gentile concessione dell’autore e dell’editore. Traduzione italiana di Carlotta Pavese....

Was Darwin a framework-free biologist? A reply to Peter Ludlow

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Martin Haspelmath (19 oct. 2021)

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Philosophical issues keep coming up in linguistics, and although I have no particular training in this field, I have sometimes felt that I should make general comments about the nature of linguistic theorizing (e.g. in my 2010 paper on “framework-free grammatical theory”). Now I feel honored that th...

Confusing p-linguistics and g-linguistics: Philosopher Ludlow on “framework-free theory”

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Martin Haspelmath (23 juin 2019)

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This post was prompted by a recent paper by Peter Ludlow (a Michigan/Illinois-based philosopher) on “the philosophy of generative linguistics” (2019), where he targets a 2010 paper of mine for criticism, and (quite flatteringly) pits me against Darwin. But he confuses general linguistic theory with...

Yao-Su Hu. Europe under Stress David Allen Reinhardt Rummel et Wolfgang Wessels. European Political Cooperation Peter Ludlow. The making of the European Monetary System

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Philippe Moreau Defarges (1982)

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Moreau Defarges. Yao-Su Hu. Europe under Stress David Allen Reinhardt Rummel et Wolfgang Wessels. European Political Cooperation Peter Ludlow. The making of the European Monetary System. In: Politique étrangère, n°4 - 1982 - 47ᵉannée. pp. 1063-1064.