Linguistic Luck Safeguards and threats to linguistic communication

by Fairweather, Abrol; Montemayor, Carlos

• ISBN13: 9780192845450
• ISBN10: 0192845454
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2023-09-22
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Abrol Fairweather, Emeritus Professor, San Francisco State University,Carlos Montemayor, San Francisco State University

Abrol Fairweather is Emeritus Lecturer in Philosophy at San Francisco State University, USA. He has written and edited books and essays in the field of virtue epistemology, including the first collection of essays in the field, Virtue Epistemology: Essays on Epistemic Virtue and Responsibility (Fairweather, A & Zagzebski, L. eds., 2001), and has emphasized naturalized approaches to this highly normative subject, including Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention: A Theory of Epistemic Agency (2017).

Carlos Montemayor is Professor of Philosophy at San Francisco State University, USA. His research focuses on philosophy of mind and cognitive science. Montemayor is the author of Minding Time: A Philosophical and Theoretical Approach to the Psychology of Time (2013) and co-author (with Abrol Fairweather) of Knowledge, Dexterity, and Attention: A Theory of Epistemic Agency (2017), among other books. His work focus on the diversity of intelligence, animal cognition, consciousness, time cognition, epistemic agency, and attention.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction, Abrol Fairweather and Carlos Montemayor
2. Language and Luck, Maria de Ponte (University of the Basque Country), Kepa Korta (University of the Basque Country) and John Perry (Stanford University)
Nomological, Formal and Cognitive Luck Reduction
3. Specificity And Resolution In The Communicative Use Of Singular Terms, Imogen Dickie (University of Toronto)
4. Luck And Metasemantics, Jeffrey King (Rutgers University)
5. Laws and Luck in Language: Problems with Devitt's Conventional, Commonsense Linguistics, Georges Rey (University of Maryland) and John Collins (East Anglia University)
6. Linguistic Luck: A Response to Rey and Collins, Michael Devitt (CUNY)
7. Epistemicism without metalinguistic safety, Justin Khoo (MIT)
Cognitive and Social Luck Reduction
8. Testimony, Luck and Conversational Implicature, Elizabeth Fricker (Oxford University)
9. Linguistic Luck and the Publicness of Language, Claudine Verheggen (York University)
10. Understanding, Luck, and Communicative Value, Andrew Peet (University of Leeds)
11. Luck-Reducing Features of Lexical Innovation, Samia Hesni (Boston University)
12. We Forge the Conditions of Love, Georgi Gardiner (University of Tennessee)