Kirk Ludwig
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 105043 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Kirk Ludwig |
| PRENOMES | Kirk |
| SOBRENOME | Ludwig |
| ASSINATURA | LUDWIG K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9037-6292 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 21 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 16 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 20 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1992 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Conventions and Status Functions
We argue that there is a variety of convention, effective coordinating agreement, that has not been adequately identified in the literature. Its distinctive feature is that it is a structure of conditional we-intentions of parties, unlike more familiar varieties of convention, which are structures of expectations and preferences or obligations. We argue that status functions (i.e., social functions like being a pawn, a president, or a dollar bill…
Let me go and try
This paper argues for a deflationary account of trying on which ‘x tried to φ’ abbreviates ‘x did something with the intention of φ-ing’, where ‘did something’ is treated as a schematic verb. On this account, tryings are not a distinctive sort of episode present in some or all cases of acting. ‘x tried to φ’ simply relates some doing of x’s to a further aim x had, which may or may not have been achieved. Consequently, the analysis of ‘x tried to …
Triangulating on Thought and Norms
This article raises two questions about Robert Myers and Claudine Verheggen's terrific book, Donald Davidson's Triangulation Argument: A Philosophical Inquiry . The first question, concerning the first part of the book, is whether, starting from the assumption that a solitary individual cannot have thought contents, we can show that adding another individual to the picture cannot resolve the problem. The second question, concerning the second par…
What are group speech acts
Individual and Collective Action
Olle Blomberg challenges three claims in my book From Individual to Plural Agency (Ludwig, Kirk (2016): From Individual to Plural Agency: Collective Action 1 . Vols. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press.). The first is that there are no collective actions in the sense in which there are individual actions. The second is that singular action sentences entail that there is no more than one agent of the event expressed by the action verb in the way re…
From Plural to Institutional Agency
Can institutional agency be understood in terms of informal (plural) group agency? This book argues that the answer is ‘yes’, and more specifically that both can be understood ultimately in terms of the agency of individuals who are members of such groups and in terms of the concepts already at play in our understanding of individual agency. Thus, the book argues for a strong form of methodological individualism. It is the second part of a two-pa…
Methodological Individualism, The We-mode, and Team Reasoning
Raimo Tuomela is one of the pioneers of social action theory and has done as much as anyone over the last 30 years to advance the study of social action and collective intentionality. Social Ontology: Collective Intentionality and Group Agents (2013) presents the latest version of his theory and applications to a range of important social phenomena. The book covers so much ground, and so many important topics in detailed discussions, that it woul…
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality
From Individual to Plural Agency
Is Distributed Cognition Group Level Cognition
This paper shows that recent arguments from group problem solving and task performance to emergent group level cognition that rest on the social parity and related principles are invalid or question begging. The paper shows that standard attributions of problem solving or task performance to groups require only multiple agents of the outcome, not a group agent over and above its members, whether or not any individual member of the group could hav…
Shared Agency in Modest Sociality
A contribution to a symposium on Michael Bratman, Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together
The Argument for Subject‐Body Dualism from Transtemporal Identity
The Epistemology of Thought Experiments
T here has been a movement recently to bring to bear on the conduct of philo- sophical thought experiments (henceforth "thought experiments") 1 the empirical techniques of the social sciences, that is, to treat their conduct as in the nature of an anthropological investigation into the application conditions of the concepts of a group of subjects.This is to take a third person, in contrast to the traditional first person, approach to conceptual a…
The Essential Davidson
The Essential Davidson compiles the most celebrated papers of one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. It distils Donald Davidson’s seminal contributions to our understanding of ourselves, from three decades of essays, into one thematically organized collection. A new, specially written introduction by Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the world’s leading authorities on his work, offers a guide through the ideas and arguments, sho…
Critical Notices
Reference and Consciousness. JOHN CAMPBELL
François Recanati's Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta
Vagueness And The Sorites Paradox
Existential Cognition
The Truth about Moods
Assertoric sentences are sentences which admit of truth or falsity. Non-assertoric sentences, imperatives and interrogatives, have long been a source of difficulty for the view that a theory of truth for a natural language can serve as the core of a theory of meaning. The trouble for truth-theoretic semantics posed by non-assertoric sentences is that, prima facie, it does not make sense to say that imperatives, such as ‘Cut your hair’ or interrog…
Causal Relevance and Thought Content
Journal Article Causal Relevance and thought Content Get access Kirk A. Ludwig Kirk A. Ludwig University of Florida, Gainesville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 334–353, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219613 Published: 01 July 1994
Skepticism and Interpretation
Donald Davidson has argued in a number of recent papers that attention to the necessarily public character of language shows that we cannot be massively mistaken about the world around us, and that consequently skeptical doubts about empirical knowledge are misplaced.The arguments Davidson advances rely on taking as the fundamental methodological standpoint for investigating meaning and related concepts the standpoint of the interpreter of anothe…
Skepticism and Interpretation
Donald Davidson has argued in a number of recent papers that attention to the necessarily public character of language shows that we cannot be massively mistaken about the world around us, and that consequently skeptical doubts about empirical knowledge are misplaced.The arguments Davidson advances rely on taking as the fundamental methodological standpoint for investigating meaning and related concepts the standpoint of the interpreter of anothe…
What are group speech acts
Is Distributed Cognition Group Level Cognition
This paper shows that recent arguments from group problem solving and task performance to emergent group level cognition that rest on the social parity and related principles are invalid or question begging. The paper shows that standard attributions of problem solving or task performance to groups require only multiple agents of the outcome, not a group agent over and above its members, whether or not any individual member of the group could hav…
Causal Relevance and Thought Content
Journal Article Causal Relevance and thought Content Get access Kirk A. Ludwig Kirk A. Ludwig University of Florida, Gainesville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 334–353, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219613 Published: 01 July 1994
Individual and Collective Action
Olle Blomberg challenges three claims in my book From Individual to Plural Agency (Ludwig, Kirk (2016): From Individual to Plural Agency: Collective Action 1 . Vols. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press.). The first is that there are no collective actions in the sense in which there are individual actions. The second is that singular action sentences entail that there is no more than one agent of the event expressed by the action verb in the way re…
Skepticism and Interpretation
Donald Davidson has argued in a number of recent papers that attention to the necessarily public character of language shows that we cannot be massively mistaken about the world around us, and that consequently skeptical doubts about empirical knowledge are misplaced.The arguments Davidson advances rely on taking as the fundamental methodological standpoint for investigating meaning and related concepts the standpoint of the interpreter of anothe…
Causal Relevance and Thought Content
Journal Article Causal Relevance and thought Content Get access Kirk A. Ludwig Kirk A. Ludwig University of Florida, Gainesville Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Philosophical Quarterly, Volume 44, Issue 176, July 1994, Pages 334–353, https://doi.org/10.2307/2219613 Published: 01 July 1994
The Truth about Moods
Assertoric sentences are sentences which admit of truth or falsity. Non-assertoric sentences, imperatives and interrogatives, have long been a source of difficulty for the view that a theory of truth for a natural language can serve as the core of a theory of meaning. The trouble for truth-theoretic semantics posed by non-assertoric sentences is that, prima facie, it does not make sense to say that imperatives, such as ‘Cut your hair’ or interrog…
Existential Cognition
Vagueness And The Sorites Paradox
François Recanati's Oratio Obliqua, Oratio Recta
The Essential Davidson
The Essential Davidson compiles the most celebrated papers of one of the twentieth century’s greatest philosophers. It distils Donald Davidson’s seminal contributions to our understanding of ourselves, from three decades of essays, into one thematically organized collection. A new, specially written introduction by Ernie Lepore and Kirk Ludwig, two of the world’s leading authorities on his work, offers a guide through the ideas and arguments, sho…
Critical Notices
Reference and Consciousness. JOHN CAMPBELL
The Epistemology of Thought Experiments
T here has been a movement recently to bring to bear on the conduct of philo- sophical thought experiments (henceforth "thought experiments") 1 the empirical techniques of the social sciences, that is, to treat their conduct as in the nature of an anthropological investigation into the application conditions of the concepts of a group of subjects.This is to take a third person, in contrast to the traditional first person, approach to conceptual a…
The Argument for Subject‐Body Dualism from Transtemporal Identity
Is Distributed Cognition Group Level Cognition
This paper shows that recent arguments from group problem solving and task performance to emergent group level cognition that rest on the social parity and related principles are invalid or question begging. The paper shows that standard attributions of problem solving or task performance to groups require only multiple agents of the outcome, not a group agent over and above its members, whether or not any individual member of the group could hav…
Shared Agency in Modest Sociality
A contribution to a symposium on Michael Bratman, Shared Agency: A Planning Theory of Acting Together
From Individual to Plural Agency
From Plural to Institutional Agency
Can institutional agency be understood in terms of informal (plural) group agency? This book argues that the answer is ‘yes’, and more specifically that both can be understood ultimately in terms of the agency of individuals who are members of such groups and in terms of the concepts already at play in our understanding of individual agency. Thus, the book argues for a strong form of methodological individualism. It is the second part of a two-pa…
Methodological Individualism, The We-mode, and Team Reasoning
Raimo Tuomela is one of the pioneers of social action theory and has done as much as anyone over the last 30 years to advance the study of social action and collective intentionality. Social Ontology: Collective Intentionality and Group Agents (2013) presents the latest version of his theory and applications to a range of important social phenomena. The book covers so much ground, and so many important topics in detailed discussions, that it woul…
The Routledge Handbook of Collective Intentionality
Individual and Collective Action
Olle Blomberg challenges three claims in my book From Individual to Plural Agency (Ludwig, Kirk (2016): From Individual to Plural Agency: Collective Action 1 . Vols. 2. Oxford: Oxford University Press.). The first is that there are no collective actions in the sense in which there are individual actions. The second is that singular action sentences entail that there is no more than one agent of the event expressed by the action verb in the way re…
Triangulating on Thought and Norms
This article raises two questions about Robert Myers and Claudine Verheggen's terrific book, Donald Davidson's Triangulation Argument: A Philosophical Inquiry . The first question, concerning the first part of the book, is whether, starting from the assumption that a solitary individual cannot have thought contents, we can show that adding another individual to the picture cannot resolve the problem. The second question, concerning the second par…
What are group speech acts
Let me go and try
This paper argues for a deflationary account of trying on which ‘x tried to φ’ abbreviates ‘x did something with the intention of φ-ing’, where ‘did something’ is treated as a schematic verb. On this account, tryings are not a distinctive sort of episode present in some or all cases of acting. ‘x tried to φ’ simply relates some doing of x’s to a further aim x had, which may or may not have been achieved. Consequently, the analysis of ‘x tried to …
Conventions and Status Functions
We argue that there is a variety of convention, effective coordinating agreement, that has not been adequately identified in the literature. Its distinctive feature is that it is a structure of conditional we-intentions of parties, unlike more familiar varieties of convention, which are structures of expectations and preferences or obligations. We argue that status functions (i.e., social functions like being a pawn, a president, or a dollar bill…
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