Ofra Magidor
Biographic Data
| ID | 1103769 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ofra Magidor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ofra |
| FAMILY NAME | Magidor |
| SIGNATURE | MAGIDOR O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oxford |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
What copredication can(not) teach us
Copredication sentences such as ‘Lunch was delicious but took hours’ and ‘The book on the shelf was written by Tolstoy’ can be used to express truths despite ascribing prima facie incompatible properties to single entities. Theorists have drawn far-reaching and dramatic lessons about what copredication can teach us about language. We begin by focusing on the three such central lessons. In each case we argue that the lessons are mistaken. We then …
Ambiguity Tests, Polysemy, and Copredication
A family of familiar linguistic tests purport to help identify when a term is ambiguous. These tests are philosophically important: a familiar philosophical strategy is to claim that some phenomenon is disunified and its accompanying term is ambiguous. The tests have been used to evaluate disunification proposals about causation, pain, and knowledge, among others. These ambiguity tests, however, have come under fire. It has been alleged that the …
Copredication and Meaning Transfer
Copredication occurs when a sentence receives a true reading despite prima facie ascribing categorically incompatible properties to a single entity. For example, ‘The red book is by Tolstoy’ can have a true reading even though it seems that being red is only a property of physical copies, while being by Tolstoy is only a property of informational texts. A tempting strategy for resolving this tension is to claim that at least one of the predicates…
Copredication, Counting, and Criteria of Individuation
Copredication is the phenomenon exhibited by sentences such as (1)-(3): ... This problem has driven theorists to a variety of dramatic conclusions, most notably that referential semantics should be jettisoned altogether (Chomsky, 2000; Pietroski, 2005; Collins, 2009, 2011 and forthcoming). Those who are moved by the puzzle but wish to preserve referential semantics have offered a range of complex semantic theories (Pustejovky, 1995; Luo, 2012; As…
Meaning Transfer Revisited
The Myth of the De Se
Semantic Sovereignty
Arguments by Leibniz's Law in Metaphysics
Leibniz's Law (or as it sometimes called, 'the Indiscerniblity of Identicals') is a widely accepted principle governing the notion of numerical identity. The principle states that if a is identical to b, then any property had by a is also had by b. Leibniz's Law may seem like a trivial principle, but its apparent consequences are far from trivial. The law has been utilised in a wide range of arguments in metaphysics, many leading to substantive a…
Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge of the Internal World
Book Review| July 01 2010 Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge of the Internal World. Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge of the Internal World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. vii + 148 pp. Ofra Magidor Ofra Magidor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 384–391. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2010-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Searc…
Epistemicism About Vagueness and Meta‐linguistic Safety
Another Note on Zeno's Arrow
In Physics VI.9 Aristotle addresses Zeno's four paradoxes of motion and amongst them the arrow paradox. In his brief remarks on the paradox, Aristotle suggests what he takes to be a solution to the paradox.In two famous papers, both called 'A note on Zeno's arrow', Gregory Vlastos and Jonathan Lear each suggest an interpretation of Aristotle's proposed solution to the arrow paradox. In this paper, I argue that these two interpretations are unsati…
The Myth of the De Se
Semantic Sovereignty
Meaning Transfer Revisited
Epistemicism About Vagueness and Meta‐linguistic Safety
Another Note on Zeno's Arrow
In Physics VI.9 Aristotle addresses Zeno's four paradoxes of motion and amongst them the arrow paradox. In his brief remarks on the paradox, Aristotle suggests what he takes to be a solution to the paradox.In two famous papers, both called 'A note on Zeno's arrow', Gregory Vlastos and Jonathan Lear each suggest an interpretation of Aristotle's proposed solution to the arrow paradox. In this paper, I argue that these two interpretations are unsati…
Epistemicism About Vagueness and Meta‐linguistic Safety
Another Note on Zeno's Arrow
In Physics VI.9 Aristotle addresses Zeno's four paradoxes of motion and amongst them the arrow paradox. In his brief remarks on the paradox, Aristotle suggests what he takes to be a solution to the paradox.In two famous papers, both called 'A note on Zeno's arrow', Gregory Vlastos and Jonathan Lear each suggest an interpretation of Aristotle's proposed solution to the arrow paradox. In this paper, I argue that these two interpretations are unsati…
Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge of the Internal World
Book Review| July 01 2010 Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge of the Internal World. Robert Stalnaker, Our Knowledge of the Internal World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008. vii + 148 pp. Ofra Magidor Ofra Magidor Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google The Philosophical Review (2010) 119 (3): 384–391. https://doi.org/10.1215/00318108-2010-006 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Searc…
Arguments by Leibniz's Law in Metaphysics
Leibniz's Law (or as it sometimes called, 'the Indiscerniblity of Identicals') is a widely accepted principle governing the notion of numerical identity. The principle states that if a is identical to b, then any property had by a is also had by b. Leibniz's Law may seem like a trivial principle, but its apparent consequences are far from trivial. The law has been utilised in a wide range of arguments in metaphysics, many leading to substantive a…
Semantic Sovereignty
The Myth of the De Se
Meaning Transfer Revisited
Copredication, Counting, and Criteria of Individuation
Copredication is the phenomenon exhibited by sentences such as (1)-(3): ... This problem has driven theorists to a variety of dramatic conclusions, most notably that referential semantics should be jettisoned altogether (Chomsky, 2000; Pietroski, 2005; Collins, 2009, 2011 and forthcoming). Those who are moved by the puzzle but wish to preserve referential semantics have offered a range of complex semantic theories (Pustejovky, 1995; Luo, 2012; As…
Copredication and Meaning Transfer
Copredication occurs when a sentence receives a true reading despite prima facie ascribing categorically incompatible properties to a single entity. For example, ‘The red book is by Tolstoy’ can have a true reading even though it seems that being red is only a property of physical copies, while being by Tolstoy is only a property of informational texts. A tempting strategy for resolving this tension is to claim that at least one of the predicates…
Ambiguity Tests, Polysemy, and Copredication
A family of familiar linguistic tests purport to help identify when a term is ambiguous. These tests are philosophically important: a familiar philosophical strategy is to claim that some phenomenon is disunified and its accompanying term is ambiguous. The tests have been used to evaluate disunification proposals about causation, pain, and knowledge, among others. These ambiguity tests, however, have come under fire. It has been alleged that the …
What copredication can(not) teach us
Copredication sentences such as ‘Lunch was delicious but took hours’ and ‘The book on the shelf was written by Tolstoy’ can be used to express truths despite ascribing prima facie incompatible properties to single entities. Theorists have drawn far-reaching and dramatic lessons about what copredication can teach us about language. We begin by focusing on the three such central lessons. In each case we argue that the lessons are mistaken. We then …
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